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Setting status in Windows 7 RC1 jump list causes Live to sign out
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...)
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Windows Live Connection Troubleshooter is old and outdated.
The only mordern thing here are the buttons and the "i" icon. Everything else is out dated
Update the dialog or better yet for windows 7 users, use the internet connection wizzard
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Update Personal Status Message on home.live.com without a postback
If I change my status at profile.live.com it does it without a postback, meaning its a lot quicker.
The behaviour isn't the same at home.live.com which requires TWO postbacks.
Please make the home.live.com behaviour the same as profile.live.com
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[Groups] [Profile] [SkyDrive] [Spaces] Create consistent sorting/navigation options for comments and discussions
Have you noticed? Blog, profile, and SkyDrive comments on WL sort newest to oldest, but discussions sort in completely the opposite direction. Some comment pages display first/back/next/last navigation buttons only at the top/bottom of the page, but their (more...)
Provide a consistent sort order for comments across WL, or provide a simple sorting mechanism to give users control over which direction to sort the comments. Provide a reliable place to find comment navigation buttons, and make them look the same across (more...)
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Folder-SubFolder-Windows Live Photo Gallery 2 SkyDrive
Problem. I have a photo album stored on a whs. The files are all sorted into folders and subfolders i.e Birthdays(Folder) Child1(subFolder) Child2(subFolder) etc. When you click on and Birthdays Folder x items, x selected, the photos are hightlighted, (more...)
Moving the images in the skydrive is a real pain. Windows Live Photo Gallery should be seen as the master and all edits and folders should be duplicated in the SkyDrive
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[Spaces] Provide better control over comments
It's easier than before to manage blog comments and remove spam, but WL needs to increase the focus on keeping spam out of our comments in the first place.
Provide more control over who can post comments to our blogs, perferrably in the form of any or all of the following: CAPTCHA/reCAPTCHA, moderation (comments don't appear until you've OKed them), more granular permissions (e.g., only allow comments (more...)
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Standardize the comment editors across WL.
There's a lot of variation between the comment editors used in Windows Live (profile notes, PMs, web-based blog editor, blog comments, guestbook, group discussions, feedback, etc.), and I'm not just talking about the exclusion of rich-formatting (more...)
Create a uniform set of editing/formatting tools for all comment editors. I've got no problem with turning on/off features depending on their context (that makes a lot of sense), but maybe add more granularity, so that some tools can be disabled (more...)
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Add the ability to exclude users and categories of People from Permissions.
Currently you can add a person or a category to the permissions of most items in Live. But you can not exclude persons or categories. FaceBook has this feature, and so should Live.
This allows you to group together a collection or category (more...)
Add an "except these people or categories" section on each permission page to list persons and categories that cannot have access to the resource. Any person falling into the exception list would be denied access to the resource.
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Add "View profile" back to the drop down menu for user tiles in People.
You now have to "View contacts" then "View profile" when in People to get to their profile. This is the only place this has to be done!
Simply add the menu item "View profile" back to this drop down menu!
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Alerts for groups
Groups cannot be subscribed to.
Add RSS feeds and alerts to groups.
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[Hotmail] "Delete the message" option as well as "Return to message"
Whenever you send a reply to an email you get a page offering you the option to "return to message". I'm a very keen pruner of my inbox hence I often return to the message just to delete it.
It would be nice if there were a "delete the original message" option on that page as well. It would save me a mouse-click
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[Spaces] I'd like to be notified when someone creates a trackback to one of my blog posts
I don't get notified when someone else on Spaces links to one of my blog posts
I'd like to be notified when someone creates a trackback to one of my blog posts
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[Spaces] Automatically create trackbacks
If I link to another post on Spaces then I have to manually create the trackback
Automatically create the trackback,
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[Groups] Let me subscribe to a group discussion thread
Currently the only way to know if someone has replied to a Group discussoin thread that I have previously left a message on is to visit the group at http://groups.live.com
Let me subscribe to a thread (perhaps via alerts.live.com) so that i can choose how and where to be notified about an update to the thread.
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[Groups] [Mail] Live Mail to be offline reader for group discussions
There is no offline reader for Group discussions.
Live Mail is already a very good NNTP client. I'd like to see that extended to be a client for Live Groups discussion boards as well.
I don't give a monkey's if the underlying transport is NNTP/Mesh or whatever - I just want (more...)
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