Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Christopher E Swan

Tsz Yan Wong

Miron Vranjes

Alex G Snitkovskiy

Hirofumi Yamamoto

Brian Daniel Beck

Yaou Wei

Steven Joseph Tricanowicz

Christian Klein

Chaitanya Dev Sareen

Mark Yalovsky

Christopher Doan

Jeremy Monroe Bowen

Richard Fang

Lavanya Vasudevan

Thomas Scott Coon

Gabriel S DeBacker

Carmen Zlateff

Abhishek Malani

Qixing Zheng

A computer-implemented technique is described herein for efficiently and reliably interacting with a nonconforming application component in a windowing environment. The nonconforming application component corresponds to a type of application (such as, but not limited to, an immersive-type full-screen application) that was not originally designed for presentation of application content in a windowing environment, or was not originally designed for presentation of application content in a windowing environment of a certain type. In some implementations, the computer-implemented technique generates a composite window by: creating a system-owned frame; receiving an application-owned window; and creating the composite window by combining the frame and the application-owned window. The technique can thereafter control the composite window by performing operations on the composite window via its system-owned frame.

Interacting with nonconforming applications in a windowing environment

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

A display environment for a plurality of display devices is described. In one or more implementations, a display environment of an operating system of a computing device is configured to display a plurality of shells that support user interaction with the operating system by launching a first shell for display on a first display device of the computing device and launching a second shell for display on a second display device of the computing device such that the first and second shells are displayable simultaneously by the computing device.

Display environment for a plurality of display devices

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Christopher E Swan