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Jonathan Jay Cadiz

Jin Ma

Jason Andrew Cook

William Ritter Avery

Nicholas S Smith

Erin Woo

Skye Lee Pazuchanics

Fernanda Mendes Richnak

Garett Yoshiharu Sakamoto

Jonathan David Butler

Corina Arama

Lingnan Becker

Pallavi S Mavinkurve

Den Delimarschi

Systems and method are directed to launching an application from a rail located within a user interface of a personal information manager application. More specifically, a display of a first user interface of a first application may be rendered at a display device, where the first user interface includes a rail populated with a plurality of icons representing a plurality of applications. At least one of the plurality of icons may be selected and a second application may be determined based on the selected icon. Based upon the selection of the icon, a display of a second user interface may be rendered within a portion of the first user interface.

Left rail corresponding icon for launching apps within the context of a personal information manager

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for differentiating a conversation scope within an email application. A personal view may be rendered within an email application. The personal view may include at least one personal message and one group message. A group header may be rendered within the personal view in response to a selection of the at least one group message. The group header may include at least a group trigger. A group view may be rendered within the email application in response to a selection of the group trigger. The group view may include a group view header.

Group headers for differentiating conversation scope and exposing interactive tools

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