Windows Live Taskforce

Windows Live Writer should use the scenic ribbon

Submitted by Mephiles on September 12, 2009 to Aesthetics, Legacy, Usability

Problem: Windows Live Writer still uses the menu bar system that's over 20 years old.

Solution: Windows Live Writer is perfect for the scenic ribbon. Use it.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Fixed

It has been leaked that Microsoft are working on this.

(4 comments)

Create a RSS feed for desktop wallpaper using current Bing.com daily picture

Submitted by antiufo on June 6, 2009 to Usability

Problem: Windows 7 can automatically get wallpapers from RSS feeds. Create a feed with the daily Bing.com background image in high-resolution.

Severity: Low

Impact: Medium

Status: Fixed

Bing Dynamic on Windows 7 Themes website

(6 comments)

Setup should have a progress bar at the superbar

Submitted by nyp on June 2, 2009 to Usability

Problem: While installing, it would be nice if there's a progress bar at the superbar.

Solution: Add a progress bar at the superbar.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

Fixed in Wave 4.

(2 comments)

Setting status in Windows 7 RC1 jump list causes Live to sign out

Submitted by Jrochet on May 7, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: When you right click the pinned-to-taskbar icon for Live Messenger and then set any status, Messenger signs out and the "Please wait while Windows configures Windows Live..." installer box appears temporarily.

At that point you (more...)

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Fixed

(1 comments)

Windows Live Movie Maker

Submitted by semtido on April 23, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Basicaly, windows movie maker as it is now, is a good program for doing absolutely nothing.

I can't edit a video on that: its just impossible. Come on, if you don't wanna work, just bring the old movie maker back: it was way better.

Solution: Copy i-movie. I dont care what you have to do: just give your users a good fast responsive video editing program, because i've simply never seen one.

I want to edit a video on windows what do i use? This pathetic movie maker isnt even (more...)

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Fixed

(10 comments)

Remove the annoying Mesh Bar, integrate it into the toolbar.

Submitted by antiufo on April 11, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Live Mesh displays an annoying bar on the right of every mesh folder. If you click this bar, it is expanded.

Solution: Integrate it into the toolbar, see the screenshot.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Fixed

Fixed in Windows Live Sync Wave 4 Beta

(4 comments)

[Messenger] Antivirus (virus scanning) is required even for sending txt files

Submitted by litemininyuszika on March 16, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: In Messenger 8, users had the ability to send any files without virus scanning. Messenger 9 now even restrict sending txt files without virus scanning!!

In meantime, here's a step-by step tutorial how to skip virus scanning:

(more...)

Solution: Notify users if they want to send files (but don't notify if it's just a txt file!!), provide a button (i.e. Continue) to continue with file transfer anyway, and add a 'Never show again' checkbox.

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Fixed

Fixed in Wave 4!

(3 comments)

Add the ability to reorder images in an album.

Submitted by mjflynt on March 10, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Pictures are in the order defined by Windows Live.

Solution: FIXED!!! wOOt!

Allow the user some control over the position of the image in the album.

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Fixed

[Messenger] What ever happened to web-based IM?

Submitted by gregsedwards on March 10, 2009 to Usability

Problem: Wasn't this supposed to be rolled out with the "Hotmail update" in February? Yes, I know we have MSN Web Messenger, but I was looking forward to the integration of IM with wave 3 that was expected a while back. Any updates on the horizon?

Solution: Roll it out already!

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Fixed

(2 comments)

[Mail] Sort emails by conversation

Submitted by jamiet on March 8, 2009 to Usability

Problem: Difficult to find email related to the one I'm reading right now

Solution: Ability to sort emails by conversation would be nice, as would the ability to find related messages

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

Done in Wave 4.

(3 comments)

Windows Live Movie Maker can't split movie clips

Submitted by WindowsFan on March 8, 2009 to Usability

Problem: All you can do is "trim" the ends off of a clip, which is quite useless when you need to remove something from the middle of a clip.
It goes way beyond cutting out the middle of a clip, though. A "split" option can be used for (more...)

Solution: 1. Replace the complicated trim option with a simple split button.
2. Allow us to at LEAST do all the stuff we could do with Windows Move Maker 6.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Fixed

(3 comments)

Remake the Windows Live Hotmail/People Sidebar

Submitted by hoopla_punta on March 8, 2009 to Aesthetics, Usability

Problem: The Sidebar has some difficulties in UX:

Normally-long usernames cannot be fully seen.
There should be a seperator to differentiate between generic folders and user-created folders.

"Manage folders" looks (more...)

Solution: Fix the above problems.
A good example can be seen in places like Photos or Skydrive of Windows Live.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

Fixed in Wave 4.

(1 comments)

Face recognition and fast People tagging in Windows Live Photo Gallery

Submitted by burnblue on March 7, 2009 to Usability

Problem: WLPG has People tags and face detection (that sometimes works), but these features do not currently do enough to be useful. Photo Gallery lacks face -recognition- and will not scan your library for you and offer to tag similar faces. This makes it very (more...)

Solution: Implement face recognition similar to what is done in Picasa Web albums ( http://www.macworld.com.au/data/e/2/2/135300-pi...ce-recognition-584.jpg (more...)

Severity: Low

Impact: High

Status: Fixed

Done in Wave 4.

(9 comments)

MSN Toolbar or Windows Live? Just have ONE

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

Problem: Why the need for two toolbars from you guys?

http://toolbar.us.msn.com/

(more...)

Solution: Merge both, ditch one (or both)

Note, I prefer the MSN design. I cant stand the ugly white and icon less crap your pulling. There is such thing as "too much clean"

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

(10 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)