Windows Live Taskforce

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)

[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)

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

[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

(2 comments)

[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.

(3 comments)

Windows Live Movie Maker can't split movie clips

Submitted by WindowsFan on March 8, 2009 to Usability

Problem: All you can do is "trim" the ends off of a clip, which is quite useless when you need to remove something from the middle of a clip.
It goes way beyond cutting out the middle of a clip, though. A "split" option can be used for (more...)

Solution: 1. Replace the complicated trim option with a simple split button.
2. Allow us to at LEAST do all the stuff we could do with Windows Move Maker 6.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Fixed

(3 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)

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)

MSN Toolbar or Windows Live? Just have ONE

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

Problem: Why the need for two toolbars from you guys?

http://toolbar.us.msn.com/

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Solution: Merge both, ditch one (or both)

Note, I prefer the MSN design. I cant stand the ugly white and icon less crap your pulling. There is such thing as "too much clean"

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Fixed

(10 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)

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] Sort By Status doesn't work

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

Problem: If you select to sort your contacts By Status (this is the defult selection), contacts are still sorted Alphabetically.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Fixed

Fixed in Wave 4.

(2 comments)

No way to add title in Windows Live Movie Maker

Submitted by fiji on March 4, 2009 to Annoyance

Problem: No way to add title in Windows Live Movie Maker. This is a new edition of movie maker yet features available in older versions are not here.

Solution: Insert way to add title

Severity: Low

Impact: High

Status: Fixed

Fixed in final version. Not beta.

(5 comments)