Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Adam Abdelhamed

Jesse Francisco

Stephen Michael Danton

Jonah Sterling

Jon Harris

Karandeep Singh Anand

William James Staples

Dina-Marie LeDonne Supino

Jodie Eilers

Madhur Joshi

Michael Bach

Jon Lee

Muhammad Bilal Aslam

Jefferson King

Leon Welicki

Brad Olenick

Jonathan Reed Harris

Christopher Scrosati

Mo Wang

Vishal R Joshi

Alvaro Rahul Dias

Jonathan R Lucero

Khetthai Laksanakorn

Nathan J Totten

Josh Keckley

Stephen Christopher Siciliano

Sunay Vaishnav

Angela L Moulden

Wai Man Yuen

Bradley D Millington

Andrew Birck

Brendyn Alexander

Federico Silva Armas

Syed Nadir Ahmed

Alaa Shaker

David Anson

Timothy Michael McBride

Jamey Baumgardt

Jean-Sebastien Guopil

Guru Kumaraguru

Guruprasad M Airy

Joshua Prentice Keckley

Various techniques for implementing computer dashboards as cloud-based services are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a dashboard file at a server via a computer network, the dashboard file identifying a dashboard having one or more graphical user interface elements individually configured to display and dynamically update data associated with a cloud-based service. The dashboard file further contains metadata indicating a cloud-based subscription. The method also includes associating the received dashboard file with the cloud-based subscription, identifying one or more entities allowed to access the dashboard based on the cloud-based subscription, and displaying, via the computer network, the dashboard identified by the dashboard file to the one or more entities upon verification of the cloud-based subscription.

Dashboard as remote computing services

Techniques are described herein that are capable of providing a pivot-based tile gallery with an adapted tile (e.g., in an application, such as a web application in a browser). A pivot is code that enables selection of a subset of tiles from multiple subsets of tiles. A pivot element is an interface element that represents a pivot. For instance, selection of the subset of tiles via the pivot may cause a user interface (UI) representation of the tile gallery to include UI representations of the tiles in the selected subset (e.g., and not UI representations of the tiles that are not included in the selected subset). An adapted tile is a tile that includes a wrapper and a second tile. The wrapper wraps the second tile. For instance, the wrapper may enable the adapted tile to use the second tile to implement functionality of an aspect of a resource.

Pivot-based tile gallery with adapted tile(s)

A gallery user interface element that includes multiple selectable service user interface elements. Each of the selectable service user interface elements, when selected, initiates a corresponding predetermined action. Thus, the gallery may be used to initiate any number of predetermined actions by selecting appropriate service user interface elements. The predetermined actions may be performed by a number of user interface elements that are collectively offered by a variety of different applications, application extensions, or the system itself. The predetermined actions may include at least one predetermined action that extends an extendible canvas with one or more additional user interface elements. The gallery may include multiple pinnable elements and have different versions depending on a context in which the gallery was opened.

Service gallery user interface presentation

A multi-act creation user interface element that is displayed when a user instructs a computing system to initiate creation of a resource that has multiple associated creation processing acts. For each of some or all of the creation processing acts, the multi-act creation user interface element causes a set of one or more controls to appear, which the user may then enter creation information into. The multi-step creation user interface element persists creation information so entered so that the creation information is available for further creation processing acts.

Multi-act creation user interface element

Display screen with graphical user interface

Display screen with icon

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Adam Abdelhamed