Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Lingnan Becker

Jonathan Jay Cadiz

Jin Ma

William Ritter Avery

Erin Woo

Weina Xie

Fernanda Mendes Richnak

Garett Yoshiharu Sakamoto

Corina Arama

Jonathan David Butler

Systems and method are directed to launching an application from a rail located within a user interface of a personal information manager application. More specifically, a display of a first user interface of a first application may be rendered at a display device, where the first user interface includes a rail populated with a plurality of icons representing a plurality of applications. At least one of the plurality of icons may be selected and a second application may be determined based on the selected icon. Based upon the selection of the icon, a display of a second user interface may be rendered within a portion of the first user interface.

Left rail corresponding icon for launching apps within the context of a personal information manager

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