Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ramona Canan

Chunkit Jacky Chan

Dahey Yoo

Daniel Rosenstein

Carmen Zlateff

Bradley G Weed

Omkar Anand Mehendale

Ivan D Romashka

Ian N Peth

Adam K Avery

Orry Wijanarko Soegiono

Benjamin J Smith

Jeff West

Jie Li

Ana Lilia Otero Diaz

Steven Abrahams

Geoffrey T Ebersol

Hamid Mahmood

Kshitij Mehta

Bede Jordan

William D Carr

Amit Velingkar

Jesse Bishop

Yang Liu

John Edward Haug, Iii

Zach Andrew Barth

Meghan McNeil

Susmitha Kothari

A graphical user interface for a computer includes a dial control. The control can be implemented, for example, as a touch-based, pointer-based, pen-based and/or keyboard-based mechanism. The dial control is intended for manipulating a large range of values, such as a menu of items from which a user makes a selection, or a range of continuous or discrete values. A dial control can replace other control types such as a slider, drop down menu or text field. The graphical elements of the dial control include one or more displayed rings and a handle for each ring. Inside the ring, or in another area adjacent the ring, a value can be displayed. The ring can be manipulated by the user to change the value selected by the dial control. In the case of multiple rings, each ring can be manipulated independently.

Graphical user interface with dial control for a parameter

Technologies are described herein for correcting the layout of shapes in a diagram, and specifically for diagrams having constraint-based layouts, such as with lists of regions and shapes directly connected without connecting lines. A request is received to correct the diagram layout. Shape layouts are predicted for each region, followed by minimal region corrections corresponding to the corrected shape layouts. Corrected layouts are provided sequentially through the lists of regions while resolving conflicts. Virtual nodes may be utilized to preserve region layouts when flipping or rotating diagrams. A connection classification and prioritization system is used to layout shapes and regions within a diagram having one or more direct connections between shapes and/or regions.

Constraint-based correction of shape positions in a diagram

Image curation techniques are described. In one or more implementations, one or more modules are launched for execution on a computing device. Responsive to the launch, criteria are generated automatically and without user intervention through execution of the one or more modules by a computing device. Images are curated using the generated criteria automatically and without user intervention through execution of the one or more modules, the curated images identified from a plurality of different image sources that are associated with a user. The curated images are caused to be displayed by a display device of the computing device automatically and without user intervention through execution of the one or more modules.

Image curation

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