Windows 8 introduces cross-application data sharing mechanism

In Windows 8, Microsoft introduced a new mechanism called Windows Share (video) to share information between applications. Win8 applications can share text, bitmaps, HTML, URIs, files and other types of data. For example, the information received by the app can be posted directly to the social networking site Tweeter or Facebook without having to go directly to the site.

Billie Sue Chafins

Microsoft senior program manager at the BUILD 2011 introduced a new sharing mechanism, Windows Share similar universal live clipboard, but the depth of integration into the system, more feature-rich than the traditional clipboard .