Windows Live Taskforce

Diferent Windows Live navigation bars. Needs fixing

Submitted by .Chris on March 6, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Bellow is an image of the 4 Windows Live desktop application's navigation bars. All have a different look and fell.

Mail:
Black/dark blue text. Sliver looking. Hover over has slight 3D felling. When pressed you get a darker, (more...)

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(4 comments)

[Messenger] Windows Live Messenger needs a Send button.

Submitted by xombie on March 5, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Sometimes, you just copy paste stuff with the mouse, but to send it you need to use the keyboard...really, really annoying. Especially when you're just sitting back and reading stuff.

Solution: Bring back the send button. Please. At least as an option.

It would be a much more useful option than some of the options that have been added to Messenger over the years.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(13 comments)

Windows Live Toolbar adds unnecessary search bar by default, no option to remove it.

Submitted by hoopla_punta on March 5, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: I have no grudges against this, I think there are some people that like two search bars, but this takes up a lot of space and looks real cluttered. It could be replaced by some other functionality, like a scrolling "what's new" etc.

Solution: Give an option to remove the search bar and disable by default.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(5 comments)

Windows Live Hotmail still not stable yet.

Submitted by hoopla_punta on March 5, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: I've been stuck trying to access my Hotmail account for ages using Safari on my Mac, and it has been so for ages.
I get stuck once accessing a folder, and I can't access any messages at all.

Supposedly it should work on (more...)

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(2 comments)

[Messenger] Clicking hyperlinks in conversations doesn't work half the time.

Submitted by Bas on March 5, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: When a Messenger contact sends you a URL, clicking it in the conversation window often doesn't open the webpage, but just sets the text cursor where you clicked it. Repeated clicking does not help, you need to alt+tab to another window and alt+tab (more...)

Solution: Fix the conversation window so that hyperlinks are recognized as such.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

Customize toolbar for Windows Live Mail drawing bug

Submitted by Vesuvius on March 5, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Bug

Problem: The "Available Buttons" listbox on the left has a drawing bug in the border of the right hand corner of the selected item rectangle.

You can compare this easily with the "Current Buttons" selected item on the right, (more...)

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Rejected

Entire dialog is gone in Wave 4.

(3 comments)

"Suggest a Friend" is quite bad!

Submitted by Alimaggs on March 5, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: I'm not sure if it's because the system only looks at who is attached to your friends' profiles (rather than their messenger contacts, which might be so much more useful) but I've yet to find anybody I know in real life through this (more...)

Solution: Why not look at your contact's messenger lists too, or perhaps go the way of Facebook and allow you to suggest contacts and people to your friends. For example, if I add "Andy" to my profile, perhaps give me the option, at that point, (more...)

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)

Opera Mobile version of mobile.live.com doesn't work

Submitted by Alimaggs on March 5, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: The mobile version of mobile.live.com does not work *at all* with Opera for Windows Mobile (which is installed on all new HTC devices - including HD, Diamond, Touch Pro, Sony Xperia and Samsung Omnia). Instead you see the desktop version of mobile.live.com.
(more...)

Solution: Should just be a matter of tweaking the browser definitions.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(2 comments)

[Messenger] Sort By Status doesn't work

Submitted by DavidTaraso on March 4, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: If you select to sort your contacts By Status (this is the defult selection), contacts are still sorted Alphabetically.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Fixed

Fixed in Wave 4.

(2 comments)

[Messenger] Remove unused Email icon

Submitted by DavidTaraso on March 4, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Icons

Problem: I don't have an "official" Windows Live address (@msn, @live, @hotmail, etc.) but I have associated a Windows Live Passport to my existing email account. But with this, I don't have email service with Windows Live, so when clicking (more...)

Solution: Remove the email icon if the account is not associated with email service.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(4 comments)

[Messenger] Display Pictures do not save selected size

Submitted by DavidTaraso on March 4, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug

Problem: When you set the display size of Display Pictures in a conversation window to Small, the size is not saved. When you close the conversation window, the Display Pictures return to Medium.

(On a side note, why is it "Medium" and (more...)

Solution: Make it so display pictures save their size.

(And while you're at it, rename Medium to Large?)

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(5 comments)

No way to add title in Windows Live Movie Maker

Submitted by fiji on March 4, 2009 to Annoyance

Problem: No way to add title in Windows Live Movie Maker. This is a new edition of movie maker yet features available in older versions are not here.

Solution: Insert way to add title

Severity: Low

Impact: High

Status: Fixed

Fixed in final version. Not beta.

(5 comments)