Windows Live Taskforce

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.

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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

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