Windows Live Taskforce

Stationery setup wizard is wizard97 style

Submitted by formula_86 on February 12, 2010 to Aesthetics, Legacy

Problem: In Windows Live Mail, when I go and select stationery when composing a message, and select create new, the resulting wizard is wizard97 style rather than Aero wizard style.

(At least it uses the Segoe UI font! :) )

Solution: Come on Microsoft, its not 1997 any more; update the wizard to be Aero Wizard style.

Severity: Low

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(4 comments)

Add SMS (text) messaging to web Messenger

Submitted by mjflynt on April 23, 2009 to Annoyance, Legacy, Usability

Problem: The web based Messenger in Mail and People does not allow you to send SMS messages (text messages) to phones that people have set up expressly for this purpose. Since web Messenger only works in mail and People it seems like it would be a good place to (more...)

Solution: Add a menu item allowing messages to be sent via SMS to offline contacts.

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(8 comments)

Add SharedView back to Messenger

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

Problem: The SharedView activity is no longer available in messenger.

Solution: This has been an oversight in past versions of Messenger and was added back when it was discovered missing. I guess no one has noticed so I will bring it up. Please add it back as an activity as SharedView is a great tool that is not given enough attention.
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Severity: Low

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

[Spaces] [SkyDrive] Improve support for blogging to WL Spaces/SkyDrive with Word 2007

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

Problem: If you're using Word 2007 as your blog editor for WL Spaces, you can't include images, unless you host them somewhere other than SkyDrive (i.e., third-party image hosting). One would expect better integration between Microsoft products and services. (more...)

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(8 comments)

Closing the "add E-mail account" window presents an older dialog. (Windows live mail)

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

Problem: When you are in Windows Live mail, and click on "add E-mail account" and then exit the wizard, you are presented with an older dialog. Also, it has improper wording.

"Do you want to close the window without finishing" (more...)

Solution: Remove it as its a violation of the Windows Vista UX Guidelines[1].

: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511263.aspx

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(2 comments)

[Messenger] Limited length for keyboard shortcuts of emoticons

Submitted by litemininyuszika on March 15, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Legacy

Problem: I think normal people don't need to learn it because they know it, but I've seen many people using single text as keyboard shortcut for emoticons. Nobody should follow that way. It sometimes causes people need to right click-add to see which (more...)

Solution: OK, some limit is needed, but 7 characters is enough for nothing. A limit of i.e. 15 characters should be enough. People will probably not use 15 character long words. With this limit, everybody will be happy.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

Add a contact view of Group by Online/Offline Status

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

Problem: You used to be able to group your contacts by online/offline status.

Solution: Add the view for grouping by online/offline status. If the Discussion Groups had their own tab then the contact panel could be viewed by categories or by contact status. This makes it tremendously easier to find your contacts when you have a lot of them (more...)

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

Bring back Shared Folders

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

Problem: I know you took them out for a reason or whatever. And I know that there is Live Sync. But it took me forever to get my dad to use Shared Folders, and I don't look forward to teaching him something new.

Solution: Please integrate Live Sync with Messenger in a way that is similar to how Shared Folders used to work. I believe this has been done with WLPG to sync photos?? I know that we are limited to 20 Synced Folders which won't be enough for most people's (more...)

Severity: Low

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

Allow Linux users to access the full hotmail

Submitted by alphanerd on April 22, 2009 to Annoyance, Legacy, Usability

Problem: Whenever I visit Hotmail, I get the light mode. I use Firefox. It's even more annoying when I use Midori (a WebKit browser) and an error saying I should use a different browser, when it uses the exact same engine as safari!

Solution: Allow Linux users to access the full mode.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

WL Messenger ADD-INS

Submitted by galesbury on March 9, 2009 to Legacy

Problem: Add-ins removed in WLM 8.5

Solution: Bring these back! I want to use Twessenger!

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

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)