Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Shreedhar Thirugnanasambantham

Xiao Wu

Gabriel J Hall

Jay R Rathi

Dorrene Elizabeth Brown

Mauricio Ordonez

John Zhongqi Wang

Joey Masterson

Sreekanth Lingannapeta

Darren Miller

Nate Waddoups

Ela Malani

Rolando Jimenez Salgado

Yi Li

Humberto Lezama Guadarrama

Dmitry Pugachev

Robert Charles Ward

Applications may be created and registered to an online ecosystem and then execute within individual web applications such as productivity applications, communication applications, collaboration applications, and so on. These non-native applications may be enabled to interact with files and provide custom experiences for a user. The applications may also be enabled to interact with additional information discovered about the user within the ecosystem to provide custom experiences. The applications may further be enabled to create custom workflows to allow users to accomplish new tasks.

Support for non-native file types in web application environment

An interface mechanism is provided for developers to bundle together a set of extensions (or add-ins) to a productivity suite allowing end users and system administrators to manage their lifecycle in a unified way. Aspects such as discovery, acquisition, authorization deployment, management, updates, and similar ones may be addressed for the bundle as opposed to each of the different extensions (for example extensions for different versions of the same application such as desktop version, web application version, mobile version, etc.). Bundles may also provide a means to match specific functional sets or commercial offerings to specific user or customer profiles.

Extensibility bundles for a cloud and devices suite

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