Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Michael Patrick Loughry

Nathan Waddoups

Philip Yue-Leung Chan

Selvaraj Nalliah

Edward Thomas Banti

Maxim A Ivanov

Harvey Rook

Kumarswamy P Valegerepura

Philip Zhian Loh

Caleb Whitmore

Ilya Smirnov

Elroy Dyksen

Robert Congdon

Stauffer Alexander Taylor

Nathan F Waddoups

A method for improving visibility of contents displayed on a GUI by providing a dark viewing mode that preserves user-generated formatting and/or style contained in the contents is disclosed. The method includes receiving content for displaying on the display, parsing the received content into one or more objects, based on at least a formatting characteristic of the objects, and comparing for each object a first color characteristic of the object with a second color characteristic to determine if a contrast between the first color characteristic and the second color characteristic satisfies a threshold requirement. Upon determining that the threshold requirement is not satisfied, the method includes adjusting the first characteristic, and displaying the objects with the adjusted first characteristic.

Providing a dark viewing mode while preserving formatting

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating collaboration within message environments. In an implementation, a message system receives a request to send on behalf of a sender a message having an attachment. In response to the request, the message system generates a collaborative version of the attachment within a location associated with the sender. The collaborative version of the attachment may be modified to reflect updates initiated on behalf of recipients of the message.

Attachment collaboration within message environments

Techniques to provide proxies for web services are described. A technique may include providing proxies for web services that translate one format to a format native used, or understood, by the web service without having to rewrite existing APIs. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a processing unit and a network interface coupled to the processing unit. The apparatus may further include a web service executing web service requests on the processing unit using a native format. The apparatus may further include a proxy to receive a web service request in a first format via the network interface and to translate the web service request from the first format to the native format. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques to provide proxies for web services

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Michael Patrick Loughry