Abstract: A facility for injecting content into host applications is described. The facility receives from an originating program a content payload specifying (1) two or more elements of content, and (2) a relative significance among at least two of the elements of content. The facility also receives from the originating program information identifying a host program in the context of which the content of the received content payload is to be rendered. The facility determines a rendering strategy based at least in part on the identity of the host program. The facility uses the determined rendering strategy to generate a rendered version of the content of the received content payload, and causes the generated rendered version of the content of the received content payload to be displayed in the context of the identified host program.

Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods of providing cloud-based activity information. In aspects, a notification may be generated on a client device of a user. The notification may be transmitted to a cloud-based server via an activity feed. The cloud-based server may use the notification to identify a mapping of the user to multiple devices associated with the user. The cloud-based server may then forward the notification to one or more of the identified devices. In at least one example, when the user dismisses the notification using any of the identified devices, the notification is automatically dismissed on the remaining identified devices.

Abstract: Direct access application representation techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a user interface is exposed by an operating system of a computing device. The user interface includes a concurrent display of a plurality of representations of applications that are selectable by a user to launch respective applications, at least one of the plurality of representations includes a concurrent display of a plurality of user-selectable targets for a respective application, and each of the plurality of user-selectable targets is selectable by a user to obtain direct access to a respective one of a plurality of application functionality of the respective application. Responsive to an input indicative of user selection of one of the plurality of user-selectable targets of the at least one representation of the respective application, the direct access is provided to the respective one of the plurality of application functionality of the respective application.