Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jerome Jean-Louis Vasseur

Christian Klein

Scott David Schenone

Jason Craig Nelson

Robert Disano

Paula Julia Chuchro

Joseph Wheeler

Jason Dean Giles

Thomas Fuller

John Edward Churchill

Techniques for application launching in a multi-display device are described. In one or more implementations, an apparatus such as a mobile device includes multiple interconnected display devices. According to one or more implementations, techniques described herein enable application launching behavior to be determined based on context information. For instance, based on a determined context condition of a multi-display client device, an application launch behavior is determined and used to launch an application on the client device.

Application launching in a multi-display device

Multitasking and full screen menu contexts are described. In one or more implementations, an input is received to cause output of a menu in a user interface of a computing device. Responsive to this receipt, a determination is made as which of a plurality of portions displayed simultaneously in the user interface in a multitasking mode has focus, each of the plurality of portions corresponding to an output of a respective one of a plurality of applications. Responsive to the determination, output is caused of the menu as associated with the focused portion of the user interface and having a representation of at least one function based the focused portion, the representation selectable to cause performance of the function.

Multitasking and full screen menu contexts

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