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Hanna McLaughlin

Joseph Spencer King

Elizabeth Picchietti Salowitz

Richard Fang

Lee Dicks Clark

Albert Peter Yih

Leo Tian Yue

Guillermo Enrique Rueda

Chani Ayn Doggett

Alexander Leo Campbell

Michael Neil Loholt

MerryJane M Fosdick

Robert David Frye

Bradford Glenn Singley

Dena Natalie Saunders

Alisha Dilip Gala

Aaron R Teetor

Julian Manuel Varanda

Houman Motevaselolhagh

Shengbo Xue

Dorothy Feng

Arthur Chen

Nassim Amar

Bojun Ma

Camille Dominique Basilio

Systems, methods and devices for surfacing web content in an operating system shell construct are provided. A taskbar web content element size may be selected based on an amount of free space in a taskbar. First and second scored web content may be received, wherein the web content is scored based at least on the web content's relevance score to a first user account. A taskbar web content topical display category corresponding to the first web content may be selected based on the first web content having a higher score than the second web content. A web content element of the selected size and topical display category may be caused to be surfaced in the taskbar. A selection of the surfaced web content element may be received and a subset of the first web content form the first source may be caused to be surfaced in a web content pane.

Integration of personalized dynamic web feed experiences into operating system shell surfaces

Techniques for adjusting a posture of an operating system mode for a touch-enabled computing device based on combinations of user preferences and user input modality signals. Various adjustments to the posture of the operating system mode do not impact whether particular user interface elements are present but rather alter characteristics with which these particular user interface elements are rendered. Posture adjustments to an operating system mode occur based on combinations user input modality signals and user preferences not to enter another mode in which particular user interface elements are no longer displayed within a task bar along a peripheral edge. An object of designing an operating system mode to have multiple different postures with common user interface elements displayed in the task bar while adjusting the characteristics thereof is to preserve the user familiarity across postures while optimizing graphical layouts to accommodate for a current user input modality.

Adjusting operating system posture for a touch-enabled computing device based on user input modality signals

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