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Windows 8 Introduces a New Cross-App Data-Sharing System

Posted by timothy on from the at-least-it-won't-get-exploited-by-malware dept.

There's been a lot of attention to the way Windows 8 looks; reader aabelro writes with an interesting look at one way it behaves. The article begins thus: "Microsoft has created a new mechanism for sharing information between applications in Windows 8 called Windows Share. Apps can share text, bitmaps, HTML, URI, files, and other type of data, and the usage scenarios are numerous. For example, the app receiving the information can post it to Tweeter or Facebook[, making] it easy to post information to a social network without actually visiting it." Here's a short (video) explanation at MSDN, too.

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  1. Android Intents by bsv368 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I would argue this is not a new idea. The same basic concept exists in Android as Intents.

    1. Re:Android Intents by Mekabyte · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I came here to say the same thing. Also, Google and Mozilla are experimenting with making such functionality available to webapps as Web Intents / Web Activities http://webintents.org/ http://mozillalabs.com/blog/2011/07/web-apps-update-experiments-in-web-activities-app-discovery/ I hope Microsoft will join the effort rather than making a separate system.