Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Joshua David Ebersol

Mehmet Iyigun

Hari R Pulapaka

Benjamin M Schultz

Frederick Justus Smith

John Andrew Starks

Giridhar Viswanathan

Daniel Vasquez Lopez

Ankit Srivastava

Stephen E Bensley

Abhinav Mishra

Ian James McCarty

Anonymous containers are discussed herein. An operating system running on a computing device, also referred to herein as a host operating system running on a host device, prevents an application from accessing personal information (e.g., user information or corporate information) by activating an anonymous container that is isolated from the host operating system. In order to create and activate the anonymous container, a container manager anonymizes the configuration and settings data of the host operating system, and injects the anonymous configuration and settings data into the anonymous container. Such anonymous configuration and settings data may include, by way of example and not limitation, application data, machine configuration data, and user settings data. The host operating system then allows the application to run in the anonymous container.

Anonymous containers

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Joshua David Ebersol