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MerryJane M Fosdick

Joseph Spencer King

Elizabeth Picchietti Salowitz

Richard Fang

Lee Dicks Clark

Albert Peter Yih

Leo Tian Yue

Michael Neil Loholt

Aaron R Teetor

Alisha Dilip Gala

Benjamin N Truelove

Benjamin Salim Srour

Scott E Dart

Oded Yehuda Shekel

Hanna Mclaughlin

Varun Ramesh Mani

Joerg Christof Zender

Andrew James Koltz

Hanna McLaughlin

Swagat Dasgupta

Haohui Yin

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

Metered network synchronization techniques are described. A current network connection of a computing device is checked as to whether the current network connection has been identified as a metered network. Access by a synchronization engine of the computing device to communicate via the current network connection to synchronize data of the computing device with another computing device is managed based at least in part on a setting associated with the metered network.

Metered network synchronization

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