Windows Live Taskforce

Windows Live SkyDrive within Windows Explorer?

Submitted by AlexB on March 6, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: To add or download files from SkyDrive you need to login and add/download files from within a web browser.

Solution: You should be able to natively add/download files through Windows Explorer. It would also be good if support for folders was added as well.

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(24 comments)

Messenger options are outdated. Update to the office 2007 style

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

Problem: Screenshot says all.

http://www.windowslivetaskforce.com/thumb/messenger%20options.PNG/x/9999999

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(10 comments)

[SkyDrive] Add a Feature too Skydrive Which Allows Us to Move Folders

Submitted by jeremysbost@hotmail.com on March 13, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Currently a file can be moved, but a folder, with all of its files, can not be moved.

Solution: I propose that a feature be added to SkyDrive which lets us move folders.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(4 comments)

Auto-rotate pictures when viewed in WL Photo Gallery using EXIF information

Submitted by kev_gordon on March 9, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Photo's STILL do not auto rotate according to the EXIF information embedded into pictures by 99% of digital cameras.

When viewing photos that are manually copied to folders on the computer, WLPG does not rotate them automatically.
(more...)

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(9 comments)

Remove the extra "window" in the "live preview" in messenger (Windows 7)

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

Problem: My guess is this "extra window" is really the systray icon that was removed from the tray in windows 7.

I'm sure theres a way to work around this , you just need toi develop something

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

Fixed in Wave 4!

(13 comments)

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] 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)

[Mail] Add a "To Do" Section in the Calendar Part of Windows Live Mail

Submitted by jeremysbost on March 17, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Currently the online Calendar service allows us to add "To Do" items, but WL Mail doesn't.

Solution: Add the "To Do" feature to WL Mail.

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(4 comments)

Bring back time line view in Windows Movie maker, as an optional view for those who want it.

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

Problem: In the new verson of movie maker, you seem to have removed time line view, the most critical part of a "movie making app" (how can you edit a movie with out knowing the exact time frame you are at the moment?)

Solution: So to make everyone happy, just add back Time Line view. Have it as a secondary "view" mode, so those who dont want to move to the new view can go back to the old view.

This,may bring movie maker, the most "popular" (more...)

Severity: High

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(6 comments)

Merge messenger scenes with themes of Live websites.

Submitted by blai_cb on June 8, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance

Problem: The default messenger scene is the same image than the default Live theme.
You can change these images but them work differently in msg than in the websites.
While in the web you only have a few predesigned themes, in msg you even can use (more...)

Solution: Change the image in both places when we chose a new one (predesigned or own).

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(3 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)

Publish the SkyDrive API

Submitted by mjflynt on March 11, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: There is no available API for SkyDrive.

Solution: Publish the SkyDrive API.

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

Windows Live Gallery should unify all other addon sites.

Submitted by Kit on March 22, 2009 to Annoyance, Legacy, Usability

Problem: There are too much different places where we can get enhancements of Windows and Windows Live Experiences, but Microsoft did a very bad job to present them to general users.

For example, developers tend to use different soluations for hosting (more...)

Solution: Think of a site with Wave 3 outlook which redirect / host all Windows application addon, which are open source, experiment, RTM etc...

Allowing developers to communicate to users as well.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(2 comments)

Remove the Live Mail tray icon in Windows 7 and offer the tray menu icons as jumplist from taskbar

Submitted by alsiladka on March 18, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Legacy

Problem: When using Windows Live Mail on Windows 7, there is an always existing icon in the taskbar as well as an icon in the tray which is hidden according to the new tray icon settings. And annoyingly, there are no jumplist options from the taskbar icon, the (more...)

Solution: The tray icon needs to go and the tray menu options should be ported to the Taskbar icon jumplist.

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)

[Windows Live Mail] Let users turn off emoticon substitution!

Submitted by pmbAustin on March 7, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Currently, when typing in the body of an email, if you type ":-)", it's instantly converted into a graphic smilie face. There is no way to turn this off.

This is very annoying. I hate peppering my email text with distracting (more...)

Solution: 1) Provide a configuration option to enable/disable the auto-substitution of graphic emoticons for text ones

2) Allow such auto-substitutions to be 'undone' with backspace, as well as Ctrl-Z, just like Outlook and Word.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(8 comments)