Windows Live Taskforce

Outdated Hotmail favicon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

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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 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

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)

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)

Windows Live Call uses older design.

Submitted by .Chris on April 15, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance

Problem: Microsoft must think we are really stupid not to notice this. Windows live call uses a windows live messenger 8.0 style window. Keep in mind 8.0 launched about 2 years ago

Solution: Update the design to the new style. If messenger is gonna have a new look next time around, update the look of live call to that, don't just update it to 8.5 or 9.0. HAVE IT MATCH!!!!!

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

According to Wikipedia, "Windows Live Call was discontinued on June 1, 2010 due to the fact that [it] no longer support VoIP functionalities."

(3 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)

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.

(3 comments)

Windows Live Movie Maker Ribbon is inconsistent

Submitted by nyp on June 2, 2009 to Aesthetics, Bug

Problem: 1. Broken shadows
2. Save icon is in a different size
3. Menu button is brighter
4. Open icon looks crap
5. Incorrect Exit icon
6. No Undo/Redo (this is just unacceptable!)
7. Taller seperators
8. You can't (more...)

Solution: Just "steal" Paint's code and implement here. :p
The first image is the current one.
The second is how the correct version will look like.

Severity: Low

Impact: Medium

Status: Fixed

Fixed in final.

(5 comments)

Windows Live OneCare Safety Scanner Setup is inconsistent with other dialogs

Submitted by nyp on March 17, 2009 to Aesthetics

Problem: Windows Live OneCare Safety Scanner Setup (what a mouthful!) in Windows Live Messenger uses a horribly pixellated icon, some fake buttons and wrong colo(u)rs.

Solution: Make it consistent with all the other dialogs.
Or just demolish it, we have our own antivirus...

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

Dialog has gone *poof* in Wave 4.

(7 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)

[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:

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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)

[Website Suggestion] Make this site use the Segoe UI font same as Windows 7 Taskforce does

Submitted by formula_86 on February 7, 2010 to Aesthetics

Problem: The Seoge UI font is used widely across the Windows Live products, so why can't this actual site use the Segoe UI font?

Solution: Update this site to use the Segoe UI font same as Windows 7 Taskforce does.

Severity: Low

Impact: Medium

Status: Fixed

Site now uses Segoe UI font :)

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