Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Abhishek Malani

Miron Vranjes

Chaitanya Dev Sareen

Nils Anders Sundelin

Jesse Clay Satterfield

Robert J Jarrett

Matthew Isaac Worley

Christopher Doan

Alice Pritikin Steinglass

Richard Fang

Christian Klein

Bret P Anderson

Tsz Yan Wong

Jeremy Monroe Bowen

Lavanya Vasudevan

Carmen Zlateff

Christopher E Swan

Samuel George Gates

Alice Steinglass

Chaitanya Sareen

An application window divider control is shared by a first application window and a second application window in a user interface. Based on a received directional instruction that moves the application window divider control along an axis of the user interface, placement of the first application window and the second application window may be positioned across a range of consistently spaced points along an axis of the user interface. Placement adjustment can also impact other application windows in the user interface. The application window divider control may also snap to provide 'magnetic' points along the axis when certain conditions are satisfied.

Application window divider control for window layout management

Embodiments disclosed herein are related to systems and methods for implementing a customizable compact overlay window in a display. In one embodiment, a computing system includes one or more processors and a storage device that stores computer executable instructions that can be executed by the processors to cause the computing system to perform the following. The system receives from an application running on the computing system customization parameters that define how the application is to be configured in a compact overlay window. The system generates the compact overlay window so that the compact overlay window is customizable according to the customization parameters. The system positions the compact overlay window in a portion of a display of the computing system.

Customizable compact overlay window

Techniques are described herein that are capable of providing universal back navigation for multiple windows. Universal back navigation allows universal back functionality to transition between operating in an in-application context and a cross-application context. In the in-application context, operation of the universal back functionality is restricted to functionality of an application (e.g., a single application) to which user instructions are to be currently directed by default. In the cross-application context, operation of the universal back functionality is not restricted to functionality of the application to which user instructions are to be currently directed by default.

Universal back navigation for multiple windows

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Abhishek Malani