Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Leo Tian Yue

Lee Dicks Clark

Peter Josef Kreiseder

Joseph Spencer King

Elizabeth Picchietti Salowitz

Robert Disano

Richard Fang

Albert Peter Yih

Michael Neil Loholt

Clinton Edward Rutkas

MerryJane M Fosdick

Aaron R Teetor

Alisha Dilip Gala

Bret P Anderson

Gregory Thomas Mattox, Jr

Hanna Mclaughlin

Kenneth Martin Tubbs, Jr

Stacy Carson

Hanna McLaughlin

Sailesh Dahal

Neil Agarwal

Robert Joseph Disano

A method and system for providing access to virtual desktops may include receiving an input indicating hovering of a pointer over an icon in a toolbar, identifying one or more existing virtual desktops, determining a state for each of the one or more existing virtual desktops by identifying one or more instances of any applications that are currently running in each of the one or more existing virtual desktops and determining a running state for each of the one or more instances, and displaying a preview of each of the one or more existing virtual desktops in response to the hovering of the pointer over the icon. The preview may include displaying the running state for one of the one or more instances for each existing virtual desktop.

System and method of providing access to and managing virtual desktops

Methods and systems for controlling window arrangements for tabbed user interface elements. An example method includes displaying a plurality of application windows including at least one application window for a web browser application having multiple open tabs, the multiple open tabs including at least one active tab and multiple inactive tabs, receiving an input to invoke a snap assist mode; in response to the input, display a snap assist user interface to reconfigure the display of one or more the plurality of the application windows, the snap assist user interface including tab representations and an application-window representation. In response to receiving a selection of a tab representation, a web browser application window is displayed with the corresponding tab as the active tab.

Window arrangements using tabbed user interface elements

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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