Most popular submissions in 'Annoyance' of all time
Import of contacts in CSV format is WAY too slow
I bought a new laptop, so I wanted to copy over my Contacts. I exported them to CSV format on my old laptop, copied the file over, and impoted them on my new laptop. The UI is fairly straight-forward here.
However, I have over 1000 contacts. (more...)
Performance of contact import is unacceptable. Improve performance.
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Windows Live Gallery
it is just painfully slow.
When i open it it takes a long time to be ready (get my account online, get my contacts for tagging, etc) I understand that this takes time, but the app should never frezze! just do it in the background, and keep (more...)
The gallery must be fast, and work with images effortlesly. I don't want to feel my computer choking just to see images: thats not a heavy task, come on. What year are we in?
1-Make the gallery connect to the net withou freezing it, (more...)
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[skydrive/photos] Multiple File Selection uploader or Silverlight/Flash/Java uploader
It is really a big problem when you want to upload numerous stuff from a non-IE browser to skydrive, as it only allows one file selection at a time, and up to 5 files can be uploaded at a time only.
Use a multiple file selection uploader, or use a flash/silverlight/java uploader...
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[Live Photos] Don't limit silverlight slideshows just to IE
I have silverlight for Safari for my mac, but when I want to use the enhanced version of a photo slideshow, I need a IE user agent to use it, and it also works in Safari, so I don't understand why it is limited to IE only.
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Allow trackbacks to be entered in Writer.
Currently you have to go to the Rich Text Editor and edit a post to add the trackback links.
Allow trackbacks to be entered in Writer.
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Add a better calendar date selector to the web based Live Calendar.
In the desktop Windows Live Mail app the calendar selector on the left hand side has a year mode that is accessible by clicking the month and year at the top of it. This allows you to jump several years into the future or past without a whole lot of clicking. (more...)
A calendar date selector control in the web app like there is in the desktop app so you can switch to year view in the web app.
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Add a quote button to the rich text editor
Quoting something using the rich text editor requires you to go into HTML view and add the <blockquote> tag manually.
Add the ability to select some text and click a quote button to automatically put the <blockquote> tags around the quote.
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Smooth momentum scrolling in Live Mail's Calendar
When scrolling through the calendar with the mouse, it jumps to the day below which, and when it reaches the end of the screen it jumps and the screen shows the next month.
Scrolling should not scroll the selected day but instead scroll through all the days smoothly with momentum (like picasa, or iphone momentum scrolling) with no 'jumping' to the next page.
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Windows Live Mail: allow import as well as export of accounts
Windows Live Mail lets you export account settings. Which is great. But why doesn't it let you import them? I bought a new laptop, and exported all five of my email accounts on my old laptop, copied the *.IAF files over, and discovered there's (more...)
Ensure that anything you can export, you can import... and anything you can import, you can export. I should be able to share information and settings between two Windows Live Mail instances. Let people import account settings rather than having to (more...)
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Clean up Windows Live Help Central
When I visit help central, I find that all the products there are outdated and the list is poorly done:
From the wave 2 build, (Hotmail Classic, Full...etc.)
Betas, (Calendar Beta, LPG Beta, Skydrive Beta???)
and have numerous (more...)
Clean up all outdated information and update names of products etc. Make it less cluttered.
I know some countries are still using Wave 2, but at least update the information so that it matches Wave 3 as well.
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Please add "Invert Selection" as a menu item in WL Photo Gallery
You cannot invert your selection in WL Photo Gallery. Any application that offers "Select All" should also offer "Invert Selection."
Adding a menu item to invert your selection will make you life easier. For example, if you select your first set of photos by clicking on a tag, then you select all, then click on another tag. This presents all the photos from the second tag, but only (more...)
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Cannot Delete WL Group
Whenever I try to delete a group, I get this error:
"Sorry, we can't delete the group right now. Please try again later. Go back to your group"
(The "Go back to your group" originally, on the group (more...)
Fix bug.
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SHIFT click and CTRL click in Windows Live Hotmail
Currently SHIFT clicking or CTRL clicking on a message opens up that message in a new tab which is counter intuitive
Make SHIFT/CTRL click function as it does in Outlook and virtually every other mail client available: to cherrypick message in the case of CTRL click and to select a whole range of consecutive messages in the case of SHIFT click
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Medium
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[People] Expose more standard contact fields.
It seems like every contact management tool has its own collection of fields, which is immensely frustrating.
Either provide a better set of standard fields (signifcant other, children, multiple phones), or provide a mechanism for creating your own. At a minimum, WL people fields should be consistent with those in WL Mail. After all, aren’t these all Microsoft (more...)
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Add two new panels to Messenger for Groups and for Categories.
The one panel view is way too cluttered.
I am in nine groups and counting. Only two of those ever go online and the rest are web only. Either remove the web only groups or better, add a separate groups panel. The tab could be labeled "Groups" and perhaps followed by a number in parenthesis (more...)
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