Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Roopesh Kumar Rajamani

Om Krishna

John M Sanders

David Gray

Priya Vaidyanathan

Darron Jack Stepanich

Vidyaraman Sankaranarayanan

Joshua S Bolduc

Jing Han Shiau

Michael Anthony Navarro

Stéphane Morichère-Matte

Jamie Yu

Ronald Nikolai Bartlett Savas

Feng Yu

Michael Andrew Griscom

Patrick S Boyd

Grace Lam

Kha Lam

Sumanth Pasupuleti

Peter John Daoud

Alvin Ji-Fung Lao

Gregory Iannacone

Kevin H Kahl

John R Sanders

David Michael Gray

Kevin Holt Kahl

Patrick Steven Boyd

Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for enhancing group collaboration in the context of productivity applications. In an implementation, a productivity application includes a user interface in which a document may be presented. In addition, a view of a groups feature provided by a social network service may be presented in the user interface to the productivity application. The view may include various options or interacting with the groups feature, such as the ability to create a new group, the ability to post comments to a group in the social network service, and the ability to upload documents to a group.

Productivity applications with views of social network group features

Contextual note taking is described. A note taking assistant can receive an indication of a specific presentation session. This indication can be used by the note taking assistant to access information or content related to the session. The note taking assistant can receive specific presentation session content, which includes identifiable context images. Identifiable context images are meant to define an individual page, an individual slide, or other atomic unit in the presentation. The note taking assistant operates by receiving a navigation message, changing the current assistant context image to a current presenter context image based on the navigation message; receiving a speech-to-text message comprising a unit of text; displaying the current presenter context image, and displaying the unit of text associated with the current presenter context image; and storing the unit of text associated with the current presenter context image.

Contextual note taking

A remote control service on a mobile device interrogates a program on another computing device to obtain metadata describing the structure of information being displayed on the computing device. The remote control service then calculates a different data structure that is used to display a subset of the data on the display screen of the mobile device.

Remote control for displaying application data on dissimilar screens

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