Windows Live Taskforce

[Messenger] Change 'Appear offline' to 'Appear unavailable'

Submitted by JTaylor69 on September 19, 2009 to Aesthetics, Usability

Problem: At the moment the statuses are:

- Available
- Busy
- Away
- Appear Offline

The appear offline doesn't match in my opinion.

Solution: Change it to:

- Available
- Busy
- Away
- Appear unavailable

to match the 'Available' status.

I know it's not a huge issue, but it would only be a simple change.

Severity: Low

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)

[XP only] Cannot save any changes to pictures

Submitted by Ensign Joe on March 6, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: Everytime you modify an image using "Edit" in Windows Live Photo Gallery you cannot save its changes. (Affects Windows XP only as far as I can tell)
You can rotate the image though but you cannot modify Saturation, crop the image, change (more...)

Solution: FIX IT!!!!!!!!!!

Note: Affects Windows XP only as far as I can tell!

Severity: High

Impact: Medium

Status: Rejected

Wave 4 no longer works on Windows XP.

(6 comments)

Show only the first 20 people online in a group in Messenger - not the entire membership.

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

Problem: Instead of listing every member of a group and limiting the group size to 20 or less to allow group chat why not list only those actually online and not limit the overall group size.

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: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

[Spaces] Decouple the blog from WL Spaces

Submitted by gregsedwards on March 9, 2009 to Annoyance, Legacy, Usability

Problem: WL Spaces is required to host a blog. If photos, favorites, and other lists are not inherently part of WL Spaces anymore, then why is your blog?

Solution: The blog component should be decoupled from WL Spaces and reorganized under WL Profile and/or SkyDrive, the same way that Photos has be reorganized. Multiple blog support should be added. A link should also be added to the left side of my Profile page (more...)

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(7 comments)

[Messenger] Change my name window

Submitted by JTaylor69 on March 22, 2009 to Aesthetics, Usability

Problem: There should be a much longer field to input names especially if people like to go for long names (nearly everyone I know does)

Solution: Create a seperate window that can be opened when either of the following steps are taken:

Solution 1:
1. Click Name in Contact List Window
2. Click Change My Name...
3. Window Appears

Solution 2:
1. (more...)

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)