Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Patrick Davis

Abhishek Agarwal

Doug Mangini

Shikha Devesh Desai

Ruth Kikin-Gil

Gary Caldwell

Rolf Arnold Ebeling

Suzan Marashi

Derik Bjorn Stenerson

Taili Feng

Sung Joon Won

Paul Anthony Scudieri

Eugene Y Suh

Erin M O'Connell

Wesley Hodgson

Navneet Singh Kambo

Seyit Yilmaz

Zachary Burstain

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating the integration of native applications and virtualized applications. Calls initiated from within a native application associated with a native namespace are monitored for integrated calls. The integrated calls involve resources accessible through a virtual namespace. Upon detecting an integrated call, the integrated call is provided with access to a corresponding resource by way of the virtual namespace.

Virtualizing integrated calls to provide access to resources in a virtual namespace

Collaboration communication tools within a document editor are provided. An application such as a document authoring application displays a document and a communication panel adjacent to the document. The communication panel presents a conversation associated with the document. Communications and/or conversations associated with the documents may be obtained from different applications and aggregated to be presented in conjunction with the document. A new entry is detected for an insertion into the conversation associated with the document. The new entry is inserted into the conversation. An insertion of a section of the document into the conversation is also detected. The section of the document is tracked. The section of the document is displayed embedded into the conversation within the communication panel.

Providing collaboration communication tools within document editor

Collaboration cards are provided to enable people to collaborate and receive instant replies to comments or questions from anywhere in a collaboratively generated document. A collaborator may add somebody's name to a collaboration card and ask that person for information, for example. That person may receive the question/comment via an email, a text message, a posting, or comparable communication methods, and respond back with the requested information through the same communication channel or another communication channel. The replied content may be placed into the collaboration card created in the document, and the original sender may be enabled to accept a change to the document content based on the collaboration card.

Collaboration cards for communication related to a collaborated document

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