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Add Photos of People to Windows Live Contacts

Submitted by cumbrowski on November 4, 2009 to Aesthetics, Usability

I have a very bad memory when it comes to people's names. I am a visual person. I recognize faces. Because I am aware of this weakness, I always try to add a photo of the person to my address book. I used to do that with Outlook. Now I am using Windows Live Mail with Windows Live Contacts and miss the option to add photos entirely. But you store contact information in VISTA in the new .CONTACT format, which supports pictures. Why did you not add it to the Windows Live Contacts address book? You even show a large generic icon picture where the option to add a custom photograph should be instead.

Add the ability to add a picture of a person to the Windows Live Contacts address book.

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Discussion (4 comments)

Calum.Cook wrote on November 4, 2009, 9:32am



Comment edited on April 30, 2011, 1:45am

broccauley wrote on November 5, 2009, 4:30pm

even better, automatically take a tagged picture of the person from Windows Live Photo Gallery. After all WLPG does use the same contact list for tagging!

vvicked wrote on September 19, 2010, 2:24pm

I totally agree. Microsoft has all the pieces to create an ecosystem that can easily dominate their competitors and make people want to use their products. However, there is no one that ties it all together. Microsoft has email, contacts, calendars, tasks and notes in the could. They also own active sync and exchange. It would be logical to think that they could offer it's users a full two way sync with their own mobile phones, outlook and Windows Live email. Wrong, we can only partially sync because they don't support contact images!!!! Google licensed active sync and already support this but Microsoft can't do it. It's really a shame because I'm not a huge fan of Google services but I still need to use them because the Windows live services are lacking the most basic features.

patrickof wrote on January 5, 2011, 3:14am

still no way to do this? I just got my windows live contacts all organized with outlook 2007, with the 'windows live/outlook connector' installed. it has the ability to change the picture when I edit the contact in Outlook, but apparently the picture never goes to the Microsoft server? all other contact changes sync up. It's so weird how giants like microsoft, google, etc. leave glaring omissions in their software for YEARS :(

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