Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Bonny Lau

Maverick J Velasco

Jonathan Eric Gleasman

Steven P Benario

Mohammad Yakoob Shahdad

Jan-Kristian Markiewicz

Ross Nathaniel Luengen

Song Zou

Alice Pritikin Steinglass

Rebecca J Deutsch

Wei Zhang

Holger Kuehnle

Nicholas Randall Waggoner

Michael Nelte

Brian Daniel Beck

Raju Iyer

Sudin Bhat

Pai-Hung Chen

Peter De Vries

Daniel Michael

In one embodiment, an application presentation system may allow a user to visually track a change between states of an application by having a marker visual that becomes an application visual. The application presentation system may present a predecessor visualrepresenting a predecessor operational state of an application. The application presentation system may change the application into a successor operational state with a successor visual. The application presentation system may present a transition animation tracking a transition between the predecessor operational state and the successor operational state.

Application launching animation for connecting a tile and surface

This document describes content-based snap points and techniques that use these snap points. In some embodiments, multiple content-based snap points are used to stop at points in content that are convenient, prevent overshooting of important parts in the content, and/or aid user's in manipulating and consuming the content.

Content-based snap point

Collection rearrangement animation techniques are described herein, which can be employed to represent changes made by a rearrangement in a manner that reduces or eliminates visual confusion. A collection of items arranged at initial positions can be displayed. Various interaction can initiate a rearrangement of the collection of items, such as to sort the items, add or remove an item, or reposition an item. An animation of the rearrangement is depicted that omits at least a portion of the spatial travel along pathways from the initial positions to destination positions in the rearranged collection. In one approach, items can be animated to disappear from the initial positions and reappear at destination positions. This can occur by applying visual transitions that are bound to dimensional footprints of the items in the collection. Additionally or alternatively, intermediate and overlapping positions can be omitted by the animation.

Collection rearrangement animation

Animation coordination system and methods are provided that manage animation context transitions between and/or among multiple applications. A global coordinator can obtain initial information, such as initial graphical representations and object types, initial positions, etc., from initiator applications and final information, such as final graphical representations and object types, final positions, etc. from destination applications. The global coordination creates an animation context transition between initiator applications and destination applications based upon the initial information and the final information.

Coordination of animations across multiple applications or processes

A dynamic client system is described that provides an interactive client-side web application experience to a user accessing an application through a web browser. At the client, the system receives an edit to a project task from a user of the client. The system receives an indication that the user has completed editing the project task. The system sends the edited project task to the project server. The client sends edits to the project server in the background and users can continue editing the project without waiting for the project server to finish processing the edits.

Asynchronously editing a synchronous data store, such as a project management data store

Embodiments of the present invention are directed toward providing a method utilizing project management software for creating a project plan utilizing a top-down strategy allowing a user to describe high-level objectives before filling in details for the underlying tasks of which the high-level objectives are comprised. As an alternative to basing summary task dates and durations solely on subtask data, the present invention allows a user to enter dates and duration values into summary tasks regardless of when the corresponding subtasks occur. By utilizing a top-down project management approach, embodiments of the present invention promote utilizing summary tasks as a starting point of project planning. Users are able to input high-level objectives of a project when more specific details of subtasks are unknown. Because summary task data is not rolled-up from the subtask data, a user may specify details such as dates and durations of subtasks at a later time.

Project management applications utilizing summary tasks for top-down project planning

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