Windows Live Taskforce

Improve Live Search over the Live.com domain

Submitted by mjflynt on March 10, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: It is impossibly difficult to find groups and other things in Live.

Solution: Add a better search capability for people, groups and spaces including searching on tags, filenames, group names, Spaces content, etc. I know that there is some of this, but lots of people are not happy with the available tools.

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(1 comments)

Add batch operations for SkyDrive

Submitted by mjflynt on March 10, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Currently anything in SkyDrive that is in a folder (photos, documents, links, etc.) requires that you go into the folder then into the individual item in order to delete, rename, download, move or copy it.

Solution: Add a check box to the left hand side of each item in at least the "Details" view of the folder and allow the basic operation of delete, rename (sequentially like in Windows), copy, move and download of items avoiding having to do this one item (more...)

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

Add the ability to exclude users and categories of People from Permissions.

Submitted by mjflynt on March 10, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: 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...)

Solution: 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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Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)

Add a better calendar date selector to the web based Live Calendar.

Submitted by mjflynt on March 10, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: In the desktop Windows Live Mail app the calendar selector on the left hand side has a year mode that is accessible by clicking the month and year at the top of it. This allows you to jump several years into the future or past without a whole lot of clicking. (more...)

Solution: A calendar date selector control in the web app like there is in the desktop app so you can switch to year view in the web app.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

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Home Page is to rigid.

Submitted by mjflynt on March 10, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: The Home Page is locked down to a predefined format with little ability to customize.

Solution: Ability to add tabs to the Home page in as was possible in my.live.com. The first tab can remain predefined per Live team's determination of what is best for the general users look and feel. New tabs such as on my.live.com or my.msn.com with user (more...)

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)

Groups should be classifiable as Public or Private or something like that.

Submitted by mjflynt on March 10, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: A group requires each member to be added manually and be approved.

Solution: A group classified as Public could be optionally allowed to auto accept new members and broadcast group updates to the group network and to your network (per your permissions settings), and a group classified as Private would require the manual acceptance (more...)

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)

Add "View profile" back to the drop down menu for user tiles in People.

Submitted by mjflynt on March 10, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: 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!

Solution: Simply add the menu item "View profile" back to this drop down menu!

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(2 comments)

Add more granular control over the "What's new with my network"

Submitted by mjflynt on March 10, 2009 to Aesthetics, Usability

Problem: On the Home page, on a "What's new with my network" item, I can alter the types of notifications I get. I can currently set "Hide updates from user XXXXX", "Hide this type of update" or "more options." The (more...)

Solution: I would like a new option that adds to that list "Hide this type of update from this user XXXXX". (Or "Hide updates from this user XXXXX of this type.") This would allow you to continue to monitor tweets, for example, and to continue (more...)

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

Add a quote button to the rich text editor

Submitted by mjflynt on March 10, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Quoting something using the rich text editor requires you to go into HTML view and add the <blockquote> tag manually.

Solution: Add the ability to select some text and click a quote button to automatically put the <blockquote> tags around the quote.

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)

Alerts for groups

Submitted by mjflynt on March 10, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Groups cannot be subscribed to.

Solution: Add RSS feeds and alerts to groups.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)

Add group activities to my "What's new" feed.

Submitted by mjflynt on March 10, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Most activity in a group does not advertise anywhere. New discussion threads do and some other things, but new comments do not.

Solution: Allow all group activities to advertise their activity via the group's "what's new" page and via my "What's new" feed. I should be able to select the scope of the advertisement to my network on a group by group basis.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(1 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

Allow for batch delete and/or expiration of Shared Favorites

Submitted by mjflynt on March 10, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Shared Favorites are difficult to delete yet easy to make using the toolbar. To delete one of these you must click on each one in order to get to a menu allowing a delete then click to get back to the list. If you have a lot of these you tend to ignore (more...)

Solution: You should be able to select a batch of them while in the Shared favorite's folder and batch delete. Optionally, you should be able to add an expiration date when creating them so they will automatically delete.

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed