Most popular submissions in 'Usability' for the past 12 months
Add Photos of People to Windows Live Contacts
I have a very bad memory when it comes to people's names. I am a visual person. I recognize faces. Because I am aware of this weakness, I always try to add a photo of the person to my address book. I used to do that with Outlook. Now I am using Windows (more...)
Add the ability to add a picture of a person to the Windows Live Contacts address book.
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Don't show ads for scareware / rogue software on Windows Live / Microsoft sites
I can't believe Microsoft (at least in Italy) shows scareware and rogue software ads on its websites, for example "registry fixers" that simply remove some unused keys showing every item as "ERROR" and asking the user to pay to (more...)
Don't accept this kind of ads on Microsoft websites, becuse:
* It's negative ads for Windows (the avarage user thinks it is a necessary tool for a Windows PC)
* "Registry fixers" are useless software that bloat (more...)
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Windows Live Writer should use the scenic ribbon
Windows Live Writer still uses the menu bar system that's over 20 years old.
Windows Live Writer is perfect for the scenic ribbon. Use it.
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High
Fixed
It has been leaked that Microsoft are working on this.
"My Received Files" in Windows Live Messenger should not be in Documents folder (except in XP)
The "My Received Files" folder is located in the Users\<user>\Documents\ folder, which is an annoying place to have it. It's also inappropriately named.
It should appear in the Users\<user>\Downloads\ folder and should be named something like "Received Messenger Files"
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Medium
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Clean SkyDrive URLs
My SkyDrive URL is too long. When I want to share it I need to look at the website first and copy paste it because I can't remember the long range of characters in the url.
Instead of (more...)
Making the URL shorter and more readable with your name, nickname instead of a long ID number
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High
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Bring back pop-up reminders in Windows Calendar
Now in Windows Live Calendar (Windows 7), you can only receive an email as a reminder for calendar events. In Windows Calendar (Vista) you could set a pop-up reminder at a time interval of your choosing before the event occurs.
Bring back the functionality to set pop-up reminders at a time interval of your choosing (as was possible in Windows Vista).
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Windows Live mail should use the scenic ribbon
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.
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Low
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WLM: Print out all selected E-Mails
Windows Live Mail does not print all selected E-Mails. But sometimes I have to print 10 E-Mails or more.
When the user has selected more than one E-Mail and go to "print" please make WLM print all the selected E-Mails!
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Windows Live Mail doesn't support moving IMAP folders in one account. OE works fine.
Windows Live Mail doesn't support moving IMAP folders. Say I have account with root folders: Folder1 and Folder2. I want to move Folder1 inside Folder2. It simply didn't work with drag and drop and if I did it via menu File|Folder|Move I got (more...)
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Microsoft Exchange Support in Windows Live Mail
Using Exchange email requires Microsoft Office Outlook on Windows, where Snow Leopard users can use Mail.app (although SL is compatible only with Exchange Server 2007 and not 2003). There is no simple Windows mail client, like Windows Live Mail, for Exchange (more...)
Add Microsoft Exchange email account support to Windows Live Mail, especially via Outlook Web Access/Outlook Anywhere/RPC over HTTP.
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Windows Live Movie Maker: Preserve native resolution
I had several small clips of video, all from the same source in the same format at the same resolution (500x288 if you must know). All I wanted to do was stitch them together into one clip.
Couldn't do it. Why? Because the only (more...)
Provide the ability to export in the native resolution. And while you're at it, having some preset "wide-screen" formats would be nice too, for portable devices, etc... you know, like Zune HD, iPhone, etc. But I should be able to specify (more...)
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High
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Saving Mails form hotmail to Skydrive
I am not able to move mails/attachments form hotmail to skydrive
Allow mailing (forwading) to skydrive account
we can use a mailing address like
[foldername].[hotmail_id]@skydrive.com
or let the hotmail do the samething in its move option
regards
(more...)
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Please allow permanent direct URLs to files on SkyDrive
At present the direct or download URL to a file on SkyDrive changes regularly. This is arguably a bug. It is widely considered best practice for any URL provided to the public to be maintained.
Apparently, SkyDrive is not meant to be used (more...)
Stop changing direct or download URLs to files on SkyDrive.
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Windows Live Gadgets
Idea for windows Live wave 4: Windows Live Gadgets
Alow users to download gadgets for their Windows Vista and Windows 7 systems. These gadgets can be updated ones of the defalut ones, new ones and even ones that can tie in to existing and (more...)
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Low
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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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