Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Arun Gurunathan

Manav Mishra

Priya Vaidyanathan

Edward Boyle Averett

Marc Wautier

Brendan D Elliott

Kwong K Leung

Michael Jay Gilmore

Rolf Arnold Ebeling

Philip P Fortier

Derek S Gebhard

David J G Wood

Andrei T Aron

Vivekanandan Elangovan

Octavio Alfredo Cruz Sanchez

Jesse Clay Satterfield

Christopher J Guzak

Scott David Hoogerwerf

Benjamin Betz

Richard Jacob White

Brandon H Paddock

Stephanie M Monk

Dona Sarkar

Aryeh N Polsky

Brendan M Dohm

A search term suggestion engine of a computing device receives characters of user data as the characters are input. The user data is at least part of a search term to be provided to one of multiple applications to search for the search term. An indication of multiple suggestion sources is received from the one application, and one or more suggested search terms are obtained, from the multiple suggestion sources, based on the received characters. One or more suggested search terms can also be obtained from the multiple suggestion sources based on one or more linguistic alternatives for the received characters. The one or more suggested search terms are combined into a combined set of suggested search terms, and the combined set of suggested search terms is returned to a search user interface for presentation to the user.

Extensible search term suggestion engine

A system level search user interface that includes both a data entry portion and an application identification portion is displayed. User data input as a search term is displayed in the data entry portion, and identifiers of each of one or more applications of multiple applications on the computing device that can be searched using the search term are displayed in the application identification portion. The search term is provided to one application of the multiple applications for that one application to generate and display search results based on the search term while the display of at least the data entry portion of the system level search user interface is maintained.

System level search user interface

File management user interface techniques are described. In one or more implementations, properties of a file are displayed in a user interface by a computing device. In response to selection of a particular one of the properties in the user interface, one or more representations of one or more other files that include a corresponding value of the particular property are displayed, respectively, of the file.

File management user interface

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