Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Brian K McNeil

Chris J Guzak

Sterling M Reasor

Anshul Rawat

Relja Ivanovic

Gaurav S Anand

Brian D Wentz

Kevin Michael Woley

Tyler Joseph Donahue

Matthew Robert Ayers

David Ruzyski

James H Hong

Charles W Stabb

Cristian Marius Ilac

Klaus U Schutz

Eric C Perlin

Eric R Flo

John Scott Stephens

Stefan N Richards

Anastasia C Doerr

Benjamin A Hutz

Application notification techniques are described. Implementations are described in which a representation of an application may include notifications that pertain to the application. Techniques are further described which may be used to manage the notifications, including replacement of notifications, use of queues, overrides, selection of notifications based on execution state of an application, cycling a display of a plurality of notifications, cycling a display of different subsets of notifications, examination of a manifest of an application to determine criteria to be used to display the notifications, display priority of the notifications, and so on.

Application notifications manifest

Application notifications

Systems and/or methods are described that enable a credential interface. These systems and/or methods may build a credential user interface enabling a user to choose between multiple credentials and submit an authenticator for a chosen credential. These systems and/or methods may also gather information about arbitrary credentials and build a user interface for submission of authenticators for these arbitrary credentials.

Credential interface

Systems and/or methods are described that enable a user to elevate his or her rights. In one embodiment, these systems and/or methods present a user interface identifying an account having a right to permit a task in response to the task being prohibited based on a user's current account not having that right.

Rights elevator

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Brian K McNeil