Windows Live Taskforce

Windows Live SkyDrive within Windows Explorer?

Submitted by AlexB on March 6, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: To add or download files from SkyDrive you need to login and add/download files from within a web browser.

Solution: You should be able to natively add/download files through Windows Explorer. It would also be good if support for folders was added as well.

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(24 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)

Messenger options are outdated. Update to the office 2007 style

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

Problem: Screenshot says all.

http://www.windowslivetaskforce.com/thumb/messenger%20options.PNG/x/9999999

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(10 comments)

[SkyDrive] Add a Feature too Skydrive Which Allows Us to Move Folders

Submitted by jeremysbost@hotmail.com on March 13, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Currently a file can be moved, but a folder, with all of its files, can not be moved.

Solution: I propose that a feature be added to SkyDrive which lets us move folders.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(4 comments)

Auto-rotate pictures when viewed in WL Photo Gallery using EXIF information

Submitted by kev_gordon on March 9, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Photo's STILL do not auto rotate according to the EXIF information embedded into pictures by 99% of digital cameras.

When viewing photos that are manually copied to folders on the computer, WLPG does not rotate them automatically.
(more...)

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(9 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)

Diferent Windows Live navigation bars. Needs fixing

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

Problem: Bellow is an image of the 4 Windows Live desktop application's navigation bars. All have a different look and fell.

Mail:
Black/dark blue text. Sliver looking. Hover over has slight 3D felling. When pressed you get a darker, (more...)

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(4 comments)

[Skydrive] Allow entire folder (with subfolders) upload

Submitted by eye on March 8, 2009 to Usability

Problem: Right now we can upload multiple files at a same time just by select files and "drag and drop" into the web page!

But we can only upload files, not folders.
If someone need to upload an entire folder with some files and (more...)

Solution: Ability to upload entire folders with files and subfolders inside, maintaining directory tree. (maybe desktop application for SkyDrive will be necessary)

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(6 comments)

Tab chats in messenger (OPTIONAL OF COURSE!)

Submitted by .Chris on March 6, 2009 to Usability

Problem: Simple option to have tab chats in messenger. (OPTIONAL OF COURSE!). Messenger plus does this, but it has been a request since the messenger 6 or 7 days I believe, so not get the ball rolling. many people chat with more then one person, even you know (more...)

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

Fixed in Messenger 2010.

(5 comments)

[Messenger] Display Pictures do not save selected size

Submitted by DavidTaraso on March 4, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug

Problem: When you set the display size of Display Pictures in a conversation window to Small, the size is not saved. When you close the conversation window, the Display Pictures return to Medium.

(On a side note, why is it "Medium" and (more...)

Solution: Make it so display pictures save their size.

(And while you're at it, rename Medium to Large?)

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(5 comments)

[Mail] Add a "To Do" Section in the Calendar Part of Windows Live Mail

Submitted by jeremysbost on March 17, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Currently the online Calendar service allows us to add "To Do" items, but WL Mail doesn't.

Solution: Add the "To Do" feature to WL Mail.

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(4 comments)

Merge messenger scenes with themes of Live websites.

Submitted by blai_cb on June 8, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance

Problem: The default messenger scene is the same image than the default Live theme.
You can change these images but them work differently in msg than in the websites.
While in the web you only have a few predesigned themes, in msg you even can use (more...)

Solution: Change the image in both places when we chose a new one (predesigned or own).

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)

Bring back time line view in Windows Movie maker, as an optional view for those who want it.

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

Problem: In the new verson of movie maker, you seem to have removed time line view, the most critical part of a "movie making app" (how can you edit a movie with out knowing the exact time frame you are at the moment?)

Solution: So to make everyone happy, just add back Time Line view. Have it as a secondary "view" mode, so those who dont want to move to the new view can go back to the old view.

This,may bring movie maker, the most "popular" (more...)

Severity: High

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(4 comments)

Windows Live Toolbar adds unnecessary search bar by default, no option to remove it.

Submitted by hoopla_punta on March 5, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: I have no grudges against this, I think there are some people that like two search bars, but this takes up a lot of space and looks real cluttered. It could be replaced by some other functionality, like a scrolling "what's new" etc.

Solution: Give an option to remove the search bar and disable by default.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(5 comments)

Publish the SkyDrive API

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

Problem: There is no available API for SkyDrive.

Solution: Publish the SkyDrive API.

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)