Windows Live Taskforce

Publish the SkyDrive API

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

Problem: There is no available API for SkyDrive.

Solution: Publish the SkyDrive API.

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

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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

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 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

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Don't limit the size of groups to 20 people based on Messenger

Submitted by mjflynt on March 14, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Icons, Usability

Problem: Instead of listing every member of a group in Messenger and limiting the group size to 20 or less (if it is going to use Messenger to allow group chat) why not list only those actually online and not limit the overall group size to a absolute maximum (more...)

Solution: List only the first 20 members of a group that are actually online, and allow them to group chat. Do not show the 21st and later online person or show them with a special icon indicating they are not available, and do not let them in the chat. Show them (more...)

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(3 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

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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)

Live Contacts that use a Yahoo Messenger ID are not showing as online and cannot be contacted via web Messenger

Submitted by mjflynt on April 23, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: Live Contacts that use a Yahoo Messenger ID are not showing as online and cannot be contacted via web Messenger. This seems to be affecting those who's Live ID is different that their IM address in their contact info.

Solution: This is possibly a bug, and it would require you fix it if so.

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 "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)

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)

Allow trackbacks to be entered in Writer.

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

Problem: Currently you have to go to the Rich Text Editor and edit a post to add the trackback links.

Solution: Allow trackbacks to be entered in Writer.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

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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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)