Windows Live Taskforce

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

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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."

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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

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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.

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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Problem: When you save an email message as an .eml draft file, the file type icon looks rather outdated.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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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[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

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[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.

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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.

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[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!

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[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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