Windows Live Taskforce

Have a darker theme set in wave 4, but keep the light set for those who love it

Submitted by .Chris on March 17, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: some of us like darker themes, but your forcing us to use the dumb bright, cartoon-ish themes

Solution: Create a set of dark themes for weave 4, but keep the light for those who want the light

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(2 comments)

Live Photo Gallery: Backup original photos to a sub folder in the original directory.

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

Problem: When making changes to a photo in Windows Live Photo Gallery the original photo gets backed up in the users profile automatically without asking to save. This is a good method if only one person accesses the photo store and backs up their whole computer. (more...)

Solution: Allowing users to at least have the option to change where the backup of the original photos are stored would solve this problem.

Google's Picasa does this in a much more elegant way. It saves the original photo in a sub folder called (more...)

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(2 comments)

Add an option to change the size of the user tile based on online/offline status.

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

Problem: Currently the user tile size is selectable in options for favorites and other contacts. Keeping those two layout, but add the option of selecting an online size and an offline size would make it possible to make the offline contacts have a smaller tile (more...)

Solution: Add an option to change the size of the user tile based on online/offline status.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

[Home] Expose "Recent comments" more

Submitted by jamiet on March 8, 2009 to Usability

Problem: http://profile.live.com/recentcomments/ is one of my favorite enhancements that was recently delivered to Windows Live but I'll bet (more...)

Solution: Expose the link to "Recent Comments" so that more people know about it

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

Windows Live Mail contains old icons

Submitted by nyp on March 8, 2009 to Aesthetics, Icons, Legacy

Problem: Windows Live Mail contains some old icons.

Solution: Update them.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

Launch applications in Windows Live Mail separately

Submitted by burnblue on March 7, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: In the Essentials suite, Mail, Calendar Contacts, Newsgroups and RSS are all combined into one app, Windows Live Mail. This means that if I want to look someone up in my Contacts list, or just check out my Calendar, when I launch the program WLM pauses (more...)

Solution: 1) Offer Mail, Calendar Contacts, Newsgroups and RSS as five separate and individual installable applications, or

2) give us a choice to launch each with independent shortcuts: for example, I type Calendar into the Start Menu, click "Windows (more...)

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(5 comments)

Windows Live mail should use the scenic ribbon

Submitted by .Chris on November 16, 2009 to Aesthetics, Icons, Usability

Problem: Windows Live Mail should ditch the use of the old menu system and adapt the use of the ribbon. Alow color options, as not everyone wants the blue, and live mail would be a strip down version of outlook, and aimed at the general consumer.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(7 comments)

WLM: Print out all selected E-Mails

Submitted by maxico86 on November 15, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Windows Live Mail does not print all selected E-Mails. But sometimes I have to print 10 E-Mails or more.

Solution: When the user has selected more than one E-Mail and go to "print" please make WLM print all the selected E-Mails!

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

Windows Live Personalised Experience (http://my.live.com) should be updated completely or redesigned

Submitted by Mephiles on September 12, 2009 to Annoyance, Legacy

Problem: The Windows Live Personalised Experience is now too old and neglected. I use it every day for my RSS feeds.

Solution: The interface needs to be completely redone and updated to use the Wave 3 headers and styles.

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(5 comments)

WL Movie Maker's progress window has wrong icon, doesn't show progress in taskbar.

Submitted by xombie on June 10, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Icons

Problem: Title says all.

Although these "problems" are small compared to the general un-usability of the program. Even my Sony Ericsson phone has better basic video editing options :p

I hope it's an early beta.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(8 comments)

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

(6 comments)

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."

(3 comments)

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

(4 comments)

Add more formatting option for Windows Live Mail

Submitted by FremyCompany on April 9, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: With WLMail, you don't have many formatting possibilities.
It's a litle boring.

Solution: Add more option for images (float, ...)
Add the possibility to create tables
...

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

WMP, WLPG stream contents off SkyDrive

Submitted by shikarishambu on March 26, 2009 to Usability

Problem: SkyDrive offers great storage. It would be great if Windows Media Player , Windows Live Photo Gallery could stream/play media content off Skydrive.

Solution: 1. Allow Windows Media Player, Windows Live Photo Gallery to stream content off Skydrive

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed