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William Devereux
Microsoft
MicrosoftQuickly share links with yourself or others with the new share menu
People share links with family, friends, and coworkers every day, but sharing is often more complex and frustrating than it should be due to seemingly unnecessary steps and options. Today, we’re exci...
Drawing from others' feedback, the "two separate share features" or "nested share features menus" seem a little strange. I'm not sure any platform has executed it perfectly, but having an app-specific share feature _plus_ a separate standard OS share feature seems redundant and confusing. (Respectfully, it reminds me of the old criticism of Microsoft Office just adding features on top of features. I've been impressed with the thoughtful shift to more integrated, user-focused features.)
How might we unify the share feature so that it's presented in a unified way with any app-specific or MS-identified-app-relevant sharing on, say, a top "shelf"/row and the remaining enabled OS standard sharing on a bottom "shelf"/row? Ideally these share vectors could be enabled, hidden, (re)arranged, or new share vectors added by the user.
I'll concede that I may be subconsciously describing iOS/iPadOS sharing but sharing is becoming ubiquitous and a single fly-out/window/pane approach seems more natural than the current bifurcated Edge/OS sharing model.
How might we unify the share feature so that it's presented in a unified way with any app-specific or MS-identified-app-relevant sharing on, say, a top "shelf"/row and the remaining enabled OS standard sharing on a bottom "shelf"/row? Ideally these share vectors could be enabled, hidden, (re)arranged, or new share vectors added by the user.
I'll concede that I may be subconsciously describing iOS/iPadOS sharing but sharing is becoming ubiquitous and a single fly-out/window/pane approach seems more natural than the current bifurcated Edge/OS sharing model.
