Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Chung Yiu Chow

Joshuah Vincent

Kenneth A Showman

Korukonda Naveen Kumar

Cristian Marius Ilac

David Switzer

Gary Scot Henderson

Cathelijne Bertels

Richard J Swaney

Bjorn Christian Rettig

Houman Pournasseh

Rerkboon Suwanasuk

Wing Wai Wong

Chun Pong Yip

Chor Ki Ng

Chun Yam Kwok

Dean L Fulcer, Iii

Lightweight authentication for on-premise rich clients is described. The lightweight authentication mitigates the amount of software that is installed on a client machine for authentication purposes. A portion of an external website is hosted on an application executing on the rich client. The user can interact with the portion of the external website in order to enter credentials or other identification information. The entry of the credentials or other identification information is relayed to the external website for verification. If the verification is successful, the user can interact with various external websites utilizing the single verification.

Lightweight authentication for on-premise rich clients

An application programming interface (API) provides a set of functions for application developers to build software programs that automatically detect, download, and install desired software updates.

Application programming interface for identifying, downloading and installing applicable software updates

An update at shutdown process is disclosed that installs software updates on a computer during the computer's shutdown procedures. On a computing device with an automated shutdown procedure, during the shutdown procedure an update at shutdown process is executed. The update at shutdown process evaluates whether any software updates are currently stored, or are locally available, on the computing device. If there are software updates to be installed, a further evaluation determines whether any of the software updates may be installed without any user interaction. Accordingly, each downloaded/locally available software update that is identified as being installable without user interaction, is installed during the shutdown procedure, thus minimizing the impact that the software updates have on the computer user's use time.

Update at shutdown

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