Windows Live Taskforce

Office 2010 style not only for Movie Maker.

Submitted by blai_cb on June 9, 2009 to Aesthetics, Icons, Usability

Problem: As I've said in Win7 Taskforce http://www.windows7taskforce.com/view/2667 , MS should use the new criteria established with (more...)

Solution: Put the office team to work in all your interfaces.

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(14 comments)

Outdated Hotmail favicon

Submitted by antiufo on August 22, 2009 to Aesthetics, Icons, Legacy

Problem: This is the current Hotmail favicon:
http://gfx2.hotmail.com/mail/w3/ltr/favicon.ico

* It is XP (more...)

Solution: Replace it!
Some examples in the attached picture.

Severity: Low

Impact: Medium

Status: Fixed

(6 comments)

Windows Live Mail did not shut down correctly is old and outdated

Submitted by .Chris on April 8, 2009 to Aesthetics, Icons, Legacy

Problem: Take a look at my screenshot. The top half is what is there now. The bottoum is what SHOULD be there.

You get this message if windows live mail crashed or was shut down incorrectly.

Solution: Update to the image on the bottoum.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

Little Messenger reminder guy is from long time ago...

Submitted by nyp on May 30, 2009 to Aesthetics, Icons, Legacy

Problem: Seriously, how old is this icon and why this haven't spotted by Microsoft is beyond me.

Solution: Update it with the new Messenger icon with the info bar too.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

Icon is removed in Wave 4.

(4 comments)

Add a contact slider to messenger to resize our contacts on the fly

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

Problem: Why must we use a ugly old dialog box thats really dated just to resize the contacts? Let alone the old fashond way, of clicking radio buttons, clicking apply and clicking ok, just to see changes? Introduce a slider, much like the ones found in the vista/7 (more...)

Solution: I don't know why you did it this, way but make the next verson like this,

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(2 comments)

Connection Status in Messenger's Options window has some out-of-place icons

Submitted by nyp on May 30, 2009 to Aesthetics, Icons

Problem: Connection Status in Messenger's Options window has icons with different styles.

Solution: Replace them with Vista icons.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

Fixed in Wave 4.

(3 comments)

Options dialog is OUT OF DATE!!

Submitted by charge01 on September 26, 2009 to Aesthetics, Icons

Problem: Options dialog in messenger is old like 7.5 ??

Solution: It will change to this one see picture

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(1 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)

Don't limit the size of groups to 20 people based on Messenger

Submitted by mjflynt on March 14, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Icons, Usability

Problem: Instead of listing every member of a group in Messenger and limiting the group size to 20 or less (if it is going to use Messenger to allow group chat) why not list only those actually online and not limit the overall group size to a absolute maximum (more...)

Solution: List only the first 20 members of a group that are actually online, and allow them to group chat. Do not show the 21st and later online person or show them with a special icon indicating they are not available, and do not let them in the chat. Show them (more...)

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)

Return icons and color to the UI (especially Windows Live Mail

Submitted by pmbAustin on June 21, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Icons, Usability

Problem: In Wave 2, each button along the top tool bar had an associated icon, and folders along the left in the different accounts had different icons, and different accounts were in different color sets.

Please return this! It is MUCH easier (more...)

Solution: Bring back the icons in the toolbar buttons and in the folder/account pane on the left!

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(9 comments)

Windows Live Mail contains old icons

Submitted by nyp on March 8, 2009 to Aesthetics, Icons, Legacy

Problem: Windows Live Mail contains some old icons.

Solution: Update them.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

Windows Live mail should use the scenic ribbon

Submitted by .Chris on November 16, 2009 to Aesthetics, Icons, Usability

Problem: Windows Live Mail should ditch the use of the old menu system and adapt the use of the ribbon. Alow color options, as not everyone wants the blue, and live mail would be a strip down version of outlook, and aimed at the general consumer.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(7 comments)

WL Movie Maker's progress window has wrong icon, doesn't show progress in taskbar.

Submitted by xombie on June 10, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Icons

Problem: Title says all.

Although these "problems" are small compared to the general un-usability of the program. Even my Sony Ericsson phone has better basic video editing options :p

I hope it's an early beta.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(8 comments)

Time for the Live Messenger emoticons to be updated!

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

Problem: I don't think i need to explain anything. The Live Messenger icons have been the same from god knows which version. I think v6.

But the real problem is that they don't look at home with the new messenger UI.

Solution: Update and bring them to match the Messenger UI.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Fixed

Fixed in Wave 4.

(9 comments)

Windows Live Mail .eml, vintage icon

Submitted by formula_86 on February 3, 2010 to Aesthetics, Icons, Legacy

Problem: When you save an email message as an .eml draft file, the file type icon looks rather outdated.

Solution: Have it so that the icon used is exactly the same as Windows Vista's Windows Mail .eml file type icon.

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Fixed

Fixed in Windows Live Essentials 2011 suite.

(2 comments)