Hi, I’m Allison O’Mahony, lead program manager on the Windows Live Customer Experience team. My team works on all of the common experiences that you see throughout the newly released Windows Live web services.
As your online experiences are becoming increasingly complex with multiple e-mail and IM accounts to manage, and multiple sites to keep track of your friends and the content you care about, the Windows Live team has been working to help you bring them all together, with features such as the home page, the “What’s new” list, and the ability to add web activities and contacts from outside Windows Live.
We’ve also focused on ensuring you can easily find and use all of our web services. We created a set of consistent ways to get things done no matter where you are on Windows Live. For example, we created the common header that you see throughout the Windows Live website, and other common elements like themes, options, and what’s new, so that whether you are using Windows Live for e-mail or for photos, all of the interactions will be similar and easy to use.
Here are a few of the areas that our team has worked hard on improving for this release.
Header and navigation - With the new release we’ve updated the header that appears across the top of most Windows Live webpages. For those of you familiar with previous versions of Windows Live, you’ll find that the navigation has evolved from one that included just a few services like Hotmail and Spaces, to one that is organized around all the many ways you can use Windows Live to connect with people you know. So the new header has links to Home, Profile, People (which now includes all of your contacts from Hotmail, Spaces, and Messenger), Mail, and Photos, plus (under “More”), Calendar, Events, Spaces, Groups and SkyDrive. By bringing your profile, contacts, and calendar out of Spaces and Hotmail, and giving them their own links in the navigation, you should find it easier than ever to communicate and share with people you know.
In addition to links to your Windows Live services, the header also provides access to MSN content such as Autos, Money, and Music along with the ability to search the web with Live Search. In the upper-right corner, once you sign in to Windows Live, you’ll see your picture and name along with links to your account and related options.
You may also notice that we’ve removed the ad from the top of most pages! (Note: it will take some time for this change to make it to all pages.) This helps maintain the navigation and sign-in links in a consistent location at the top of all pages, so you can always find them.
Home page - Windows Live Home (home.live.com) has been redesigned to look clean, simple, and light. You will see the same look consistently applied to all services across Windows Live. The home page continues to be the “front door” for Windows Live, providing you with a quick view of all your Windows Live activity at a glance, and a great place to start anything you want to do on Windows Live. We’ve also made significant changes to the layout and the types of content that appear on this page. While we continue to give prominence to your inbox, home.live.com now lights up with the pulse of your social network, the latest headlines, and even a few of your personal photos.
What’s new - By placing the what’s new list prominently on key “front door” pages such as Home, Profile, and Photos, we wanted to make it easy to keep track of what is happening with the people you care about most. And because you and your friends can now add web activities from outside Windows Live, you can get an even more complete picture of what the people in your network have been up to lately.
On the home page, the what’s new list shows recent updates from people in your network and group that you’re a member of. Updates include activities from across Windows Live, including changes to blogs, favorite things, lists, photos, Messenger status, and even games played in Messenger. You can change what sorts of updates appear here by clicking Options at the bottom of the what’s new list.
On other pages like Photos and Profile, the what’s new list is limited to the updates that relate to that page, so on your profile, it shows all updates about you, and on the Photos page, it shows all updates to photos from anyone who is sharing their photos with you.
MSN - Windows Live has partnered with MSN to deliver headline, entertainment and other news on the home page and relevant content to other key pages such as Photos. While Windows Live helps you stay in touch with “your world” – the people you know, and things you do on Windows Live, the addition of news helps create a place where you can also stay in touch with what’s happening in the rest of the world.
Photos – Most people love to look at and share photos, so we’ve added a place at the top of the home page for you to display up to 4 of your favorite photos. You can add and edit photos in the header (just under your profile picture) which will display in a mini slide show when you sign in. You will also see thumbnail photos from people you know who shared photos with you in the what’s new list.
Daily weather and other notifications - At the top of the home page is a new notifications area designed to help you keep on top of your day. There you’ll find today’s date and weather conditions in your location, as well as notifications of new private messages, network invitations, and the next event on your calendar. During special events such as your birthday you may see a personal message here too.
Customization - You can customize your home page by clicking Options (now located in the upper-right on all pages) and then click Customize this page. You can re-arrange the items shown on each side of the home page, change your weather location, change the number of items displayed in your inbox and what’s new, and (depending on your regional settings) you may also be able to add additional headlines.
Themes – New themes allow you to customize your experience throughout Windows Live. Click Options and then click More themes to choose from twelve standard themes that apply different designs to the header. You can also choose from several dynamic themes, which change their design based on the time of day and weather conditions—some of them even offer a special birthday surprise.
For example, here we have the Daisy theme on a typical rainy morning in Seattle, so there are rain clouds and Daisy is wearing her raincoat and galoshes.
That is a brief look inside some of the updated features of the Windows Live web experience. We are excited to share this new release with you, and we hope we’ve made it easier for you to connect to the people, photos, files, and content that you care about most.
- Allison
I give it to you, this release was awesome, but I think this weeks release of the RC builds of the Essentials Suite will give a nice finish to this release of Windows Live. I can\’t wait until the entire world sees it!
I can\’t believe you think all this is easier!!! just getting back to your own space after visiting, and viewing different pages on another site takes three clicks, a SIMPLE back to my space on each page would solve that, Why have we got 2 home pages? the first (log in) can go directly to your space but doesn\’t contain as much information as the the "home" page but if you go there it takes 2 clicks to get to your space, if you view comments all that has to be repeated! if you go directly to home page you can\’t get back to the log in page to view comments and if you go from the log in page to your space you miss "notes" posted on your home page???I\’ve put pics on my home page, but they only appear to me there and to everyon else there in a new album!SIMPLE???? I think not!
@Mandy Harding I wrote a blog post about how to get to recent comments on your stuff from home.live.com The blog post is at http://carnage4life.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!616444EE7A34F417!5594.entry and it should answer that question.
I\’m currently using the desert dynamic theme and while it changes with time of day, it doesn\’t change with weather conditions. Can somebody help me out?
I think if you would just add the Recent Comments balloon from the Windows Live Spaces page to the Live Home page and Deep, Deep 6 the Windows Live Spaces you would go a long way towards stopping our complaining. Three summary pages are at least one too many. The rest we can probably adjust and you can improve as you go along. Also the permissions for Details needs to be cleaned up a bit.
Hello Allison, I see you\’ve drawn the short straw. I suppose the idea is that if you explain it again using small words, we will all see the error of our ways. Not much chance I\’m afraid. Luckily ,a clever student at the university had the bright idea of rescuing the old homepage from the cache on a computer that hadn\’t been used for a bit, tweaking it, and were all running \’ole Bluey from our computers. Shame we can\’t mend the rest though!Your homepage is ugly, boring an ineffectual, and the themes would keep a 5 yr old amused for 10 mins at most.
""For example, we created the common header that you see throughout the Windows Live website""look up!
I\’ve all but given up on Windows Live. The chief problem that they have yet to solve is the compatibility with MSN. You basically have to choose between MSN and Windows Live. Instead of trying to give us an MSN home page and a Windows Live home page that have a lot of the same stuff, just give us one. There does appear to be some loose connectivity between all of the parts of MSN and Windows Live, but I find myself clicking back more than clicking links to navigate through this mess.
it looks beautiful! its my home page now.
Are the endless pages of how to use this new Live product and introductions suppose to help? It seems to me that no matter how much you dress this mess up……..nobody seems to be "buying" it. Many and several changes will need to be made to this product before it will even be average. People have voiced there opinion in your blogs and it seems that the Live development team is not listening. Microsoft seems to have a running trend for not listening to what there customers want….this has been stated in many and several articles online and in magazines. What people want is a product that they can be easily customize to fit there needs. It is sad to say that My MSN has more flexibility to suit users need that Live. How many users are you going to loose before you realize something is wrong. Do I need to change to a Linux based OS (a Free OS) and Google? Is there anybody out there????? Anybody going to respond???? Guess everybody is on coffee break….not like I expected the Live development team to respond. That would mean they are listening to there customers.
Windows Live Photos is SLOW, SLOW, SLOW and did I mention SLOW. The slide show skips and is unusable. Why are we made to wait for a re-upload to the photo print service (Snapfish for example) why is this not done after I have concluded my transaction…it\’s happening on your end anyway what is the point of wasting this paying customers time. Why is there no export plugin for applications like Lightroom or Apeture. I and millions of others work with raw files and do not store JPGs on our machines. The last thing I want is to sync is all my raw files online (My Entire Pictures Folder). The only photo service on the planet that does not have a export plugin for Lightroom and Apeture is Windows Live Photos. So print all the "gloss" you like but what\’s the story with lack of basic funtionality and just basic common sence? Why is this kind of nonscence always unique to Microsoft? All I hear and see is Balmer wailing and dancing around. The proof is in the pudding dude or as Cervantes would say "in the eating".
I know that many people are complaining about the new changes to Spaces and Windows Live. For me the recent changes are very good and so because I don\’t want you to add links or change the interface back to the old one, I have two suggestions which I think encapsulate and solve all the complains.1. From the inability to find or return to their Space, to the many clicks needed to add blogs entries, to the misunderstanding on where photos are to be added and why they are separate from their Space, to the dislike of the new homepage or the new Spaces home, one thing is apparent: Some users use their Space and not the Windows Live Home page as their central point for managing their Windows Live activities and for keeping up to date with news and their friends. In other words, some of us it seems have customized their Space in a certain way and have made it into their own home, both metaphorically and litterally. That is why they have all these complains which boil down to one thing: Make our Space be our home page on Windows Live. So, they don\’t think that their Space is their public face to the friends/world as I see it for me but they want it to be their home. Fine, add an option whereby you are asked on upgrate to the new Windows Live: "Do you want to get the new Live Home or do you want to set home.live.com to redirect to your Space?" That will solve all the issues that people have with not finding links that return to their Space at the top, etc.2. Add a feature in People and on Messenger whereby we can add temporary contacts which will not be added to our friends/network. In this way all these "privacy" concerns would be tdealt with immediately. Want to exclude one of your Messenger contacts from being able to see your staff, instead of having to set complicated permissions, simply make him into a temporary contact. Of course find a better word for it. Like the new Favorite Contacts group in Messenger; have a temporary contacts group which will not have the permissions that the other contacts automatically have. Many times we use Messenger with strangers and even a simple thing in Messenger like sending a Wing requires to Add people to your contacts list. So, temporary contacts would solve this.
I\’ve started receiving requests to join networks from business associates and family via Windows Live since this latest rollout. That\’s very telling. Definitely not something I expected since I assumed people wanting to communicate and stay in touch in this way would continue to utilize LinkedIn and Facebook. Maybe not… Only time will tell.
Well,…nice job,your job,but,I not like hotmail…Where are my frinds?(side right)?…Can I aback old sistem…I like more!
Not customizable enough. I want a Calender link right on the page with a definable number of coming events underneat (Kinda like the old way it was).Too much screen real estate is taken up with a minimum of 5 "What\’s New". Like what do I care? Also the dynamic themes are too childish. More themes please. Not just "Daisy & Tugboat"
Ok thanks for the explanation… but I think many have already got used to how it works, so what we really need is for you to hear out our complaints and suggestions to make windows live even better, so your next post will reflect what WE wanted and not what YOU want to give us with a nice explanation on how to use it. Id really like to see the feedback you ask for is actually beeing used. Like the themes but I would like even better if we could use our own images for it. Keep it up!
Since you asked me to change the password I have been using for the past four years, and did so I have had nothing but trouble with HotmailI am asked to "sign In" every time I move pages or try to forward or send and am continually losing workThis has got to stop, but HOW?John
@ Dare …….. thanks! oh and I have clicked the box which says I DON\’T want to show my surname!
This is some sort of joke right? After the amount of complaints you have received you are still trying to dress up mutton as lamb?It does not matter how many bells and whistles you put on things – if they are not playing the tune people want – then those bells and whistles amont to nothing more than tat. The sad thing is, is that you carry on regardless and not even addressing complaints – but – it is a free service and we are free to go elsewhere. You brought everything together on one opening page – oh well done! The old less cluttered look with only having to clikc once on a tab at the top of the page was preferable. It is completely laughable how you keep saying things like \’m,ake it easier for YOUR world\’ yada yada – I just think they were wrong at MSN to employ dropouts from the Facebook University. The best storyline I have seen this week was where this was supposed to have been embraced by users??? That is just soooooooo funny – and I needed a laugh too – so thank you!!! You can post as many blogs as you like about this – but push comes to shove your heads are so far up your ass you cannot see and do not care what people who actually have to use it think. But like I said – it is a free service – and we are free to leave. I never thought I would even say MySpace is better than here – but ya know what – they changed their profile stuff too but users are given the choice of old or new and can flick between the 2 whenever. Their service is free too. Hell – even Facebook does not involve as many clicks as it does here – but hey ho – waffle away all we want and nothing will get done or commented on. Try having at least the decency to acknowledge the fact that this is not welcomed at all by over 90% of the users – but that you don\’t give a stuff anyway. That being said – Merry Christmas.
I Love the old MSN HOTMAIL and pages It was so simple.And I wrote a letter just now and It took one hour just to get the address put in right?> HELP OLD MSN
What about my.live.com? The layout of the new home is nice, but i want more customization like my.live.com or iGoogle. I don´t want MSN News or Mail. The network idea is cool – but what about RSS or "Gadgets"? Wave 3 is a nice try… but not as good as iGoogle. I really would like to see (in Wave 4?) some big improvments and an integration of Live Mesh and a real competitor against iGoogle, GMail…Why do you still have a big ad banner on top of hotmail?
I like the changes
Actually you can remove the "What\’s New" postings completely if you want. OR stay with a minimum of 5.
But they STILL aren\’t letting us get rod of the MSN and Fox headlines on our space home and I want that garbage OFF! And for me this is NOT a free service—nor is live mail—I pay for it and I think we should have more options than those who don\’t—just like with Yahoo and all the others out there who offer both a free and a pay service.
Evandro wants to know where his friends are in the New Windows Live Mail—Evandro, you never HAD any friends—I\’m only kidding—I\’m assuming you like to address your email to a whole lot of people at once—well, you see that little address book icon nest to the word "To" at the top of the email you are writing? Click that and the names and email addys of all your friends will magically appear—then just select the name (or, by holding down the shift button select—highlight–ALL the names by clicking the first and last names in your book or a selection of the names by holding down the alt button and—skipping over the ones you don\’t want to send it to just select-highlight the ones you DO want—then click "TO" and then click "OK" and you\’re all set.Works fine once you get used to it though it can be a little daunting at first.
MSN—I don\’t CARE what is happening in the rest of the world. UNpartner with MSN and FOX willya? I\’m nearly 60 yeas old and NOTHING is happening I haven\’t seen before—
Allison O\’Mahoney is not a person—she is a T-1001
I want to remove a friend from my Friends list, but I want the contact to remain. How does one remove the friend without removing the contact??? I want to remove invitations, but once again I do not want to remove the contact. How is it done???
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I think Nektarios hits the nail squarely on the head when he/she writes:Some users use their Space and not the Windows Live Home page as their central point for managing their Windows Live activities and for keeping up to date with news and their friends. In other words, some of us it seems have customized their Space in a certain way and have made it into their own home, both metaphorically and litterally.That\’s certainly the case for me. My blog is my central focus – I\’m not interested in a Facebook clone. Unfortunately, this set of changes to Windows Live has made it very difficult to keep my focus on my Blog. In order to manage it, and see activity, I have to jump all over the place in Windows Live. Navigation has got very cumbersome as far as I\’m concerned.
What\’s happened to statistics …. yeah I where know it is and how get to it but what does it say when i get there? Referring address is either blank or has my own home page, as the address, DERRR what\’s the point of that? you may as well forget stats completely, we\’ll put on our own view counters if necessary, (or is that what\’s going happen next!?) Blogging was always the what made Spaces stand out from the crowd, you have taken away the ability for us to broadcast to the masses (with the removal of stars and new/updated spaces) now we can longer see who may have been interested in our pages.I think I may also be right in saying that MOST of the world does not use the US date format, (mm.dd,yy) Or is this yet ANOTHER button I have to locate and click 9 times to change???
I have never seen my "CONTACTS" list since Windows switched everything over…I keep reporting the problem and nothing gets resolved! I NEED my Contacts List back!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please help!!!!
I have few suggestions:1) Link to my \’Space\’ should be on top menu-bar, not on the drop-down. This is what I want to see most of time.2) Clicking on \’Space\’ link should display the \’My Space\’ page. Currently, it shows the page with options to see Space, What\’s New and Network. I think it is useless.3) When I see my friend\’s profile and space, I am lost!!! There is no consistent menu. On profile page, the menu is listed on left side. If I am on my friend\’s photos page and i want to go to his space page, its not one click. On click, I should be able to move from one page to other page of my friends profile (photo, skydrive, blog, etc.). I requested my friends to join Live Space, and almost all complained that navigation is not intuitive. You have to searh the menu or link on each and every page. New release has done a nice job in standardizing the menu for the owner. However, there is no standard and static menu on friend\’s profie.4) Why is there a different menu on Space and Blog pages? You must have standard menu-bar on all pages.I like the new services. Though, I am not very happy with the navigations.
The thing is Nektarios, that quite by chance they happen to have set out the start page exactly how you wante it. (statisically, it had to be right for someone, I suppose!) But if it was suddenly changed again, I don\’t think any of us would deny you the right to change it back again. It\’s alright for people like me, I don\’t like it, so I design my own homepage and use that, but I\’ve been using computers since they were hand wraught in iron by men in stovepipe hats, so I\’m in a very small minority, (just like you, really). Most people don\’t want to be super-tekky, they just want to find thing where they left them.Another thing, I am a person who is creative, artistic, etc, etc, and my computers are used for artistic and creative things. You just can\’t imagine the SHEER EMBARASSMENT of the new home page. I have 2 choices – 1, trapped in a nursery school or 2, 1950\’s formica factory. Honestly, the damage your doing to peoples SOULS man……………………………………….
Alison -I know you try very hard to keep Hotmail ahead of the game with all the extras and improvements. However, every time you tell me about some wonderful new feature my basic e-mail experience gets slower and more frustrating. I am currently trying to delete a build-up of junk mail (I can\’t Delete All because I like to keep the odd one in there for a while) and the page continually jumps off to somewhere else – usually an inbox message that I have already read. Getting thru the in-box messages is also slower than it used to be. The Contacts list frequently only appears in its own time. Please …. wonderful technology you are offering but spare a thought for the basic everyday stuff that so many of us want.DN
PLEASE RETURN MY EMAIL TO THE CLASSIC SETTING.
Ok live team, here is a sensible, helpful, easy , and not-at-all-bitchy idea (honest!)There is still the my.live page It\’s possible to put together a page, and export it to share with your friends.So…………….why not put together a page with all the missing links etc that people want so much, and make it available for people to install on their my.live page. (c\’mon, it\’s less than an hours work, even for you lot.). Then they have no need to use the home page ever again.Good Idea?
Re; something someone said further down – I\’m getting slightly suspicious about the names ( 2 \’L\’s in Alison?} Sorry if I\’m wrong, but there is a hint of random name generator.If the next blog is by Patty O\’dores I\’ll assume my suspicions have been proved correct
I want to know if anyone else has a problem with using the address booek in LIVE? When I try to hold control and send an e-mail to several people I get 2 addresses in and then the address book starts scrolling up and down and won\’t close. This live beta is a real piece of junk.
i dont know bt i am not enjoying live.com its been giving me problems sending messages etc… u need to update this system that it should work flawless..thank u
I have pretty much switched all my outside apps (i.e google etc.) over to Live, Most of which is either great or has potential. The One BIG thing missing is a RSS Reader, I would love if Live could come out with a Google Reader Killer app.
There should be a way to remove and change the order of links in the header. I don\’t use Hotmail (I have my Windows Live account registered using my own mail account), so I\’d like to be able to remove the "Mail" link or at least move it to the "More" section. Then I could move something I actually use into the main links area, link SkyDrive.
Where are my emails from q.com?
Interesting experience. While waiting for this page to catch up with itself, I clicked on the \’blog it\’ button, just up there, above the comments box. This took me to the blog on my space, all well and good (it works! Properly!) So I clicked on the back button (the only reliable way to get anywhere these days) and it just opened the same page again, and again, and again…………….How the hell do you break the back button! It goes backwards! Thats all! Nothing clever, (………… sits, head in hand, clicking away at back button in dispair………….. a faint hope that if I click it enough times, that friendly old blue page will appear once again…………)
@Bob . If you go to http://www.my.live.com you can set up your own page. If you look under wigets in the live gallery you will find RSS readers of all shapes and sizes.(Note to live team, you realise you could make most peoples dreams come true with just 1 more link on the homepage.)
I read on a blog somewhere that Windows Live Spaces will change to Live Sites. Is that true? PM me.
how you have managed to screw up something that worked fine is now legndary. its harder t get around the sites, a lot more intensive work required just to find the spaces yout looking for, just an absolute balls up from start to finish.kinda guessing that you need to show that your jobs are needed so you sart messing wiht things and calling it progress, if it aint broke, dont fix it!! i personally would love to know how many complaints youve had over this debacle, versus how many thanks for \’improving\’ it. but i guess you wont be putting that information up for viewing will you.please, do us all a favour, and go and work for facebook!!!!
Found on the internet……………" The new live is meant to look hip and cool, but it just looks like an actress that\’s had one to many facelifts………….."
Just noticed that going from the log in (dashboard, as they call it) home page to the next home, page I\’m getting 2 or 3 popups, (ads for something or other i can win) for anyone else noticed this? never had to block pop ups before on spaces, guess I will have to now!
There is still a ton of work to be done and i truly hope you all recognize this and do something about the product speed, which feels more than 50% slower and is almost unbearable. Managing Hotmail emails is god-awful – what happened to control shift function to delete batches of emails – the tick-boxes are so small you need to so accurately tick them or lose all that you have ticked. If you dont have a preview PAIN open – which takes forever to load – the only way to delete an email is to tick the box….can you believe that. you cant even use the delete buttonSo whilst you have got some things right, you really have let a ton of things slip. Lots of things. There are some serious QA issues going on. We aint gonna win without deeper attention to detail and UX
UNTIL YOU FIX ALL THE \’FLUBS\’ YOU STILL HAVE= I WOULD APPRECIATE YOU RETURNING MY SCREENS TO WHAT I HAD BEFORE…………….OR I WILL BE FORCED TO GO ELSEWHERE, FOR MY SERVICES !!!!!
I cannot believe that a product that worked for so long is now broken. What on earth have you done to my mail? Can I have it back please, the one I am paying for, the one that let me delete the messages I am finished with, the one that doesn\’t give me spurious error messages and locks up on me?Come on, why give anti-Microsoft people more ammunition?
Uuuss old generation don\’t get the meaning of changes, well the new generation do (like me & am sure like other kids) who uses Windows Live everyday, and when they updated the features for users experience… we love it because it easy to use, the graphics are sooooo much better, the page are loaded faster and the e-mail are easier to mannage. Conclusion is older generation can\’t handle changes > Advice is to be patient and just learn the features of the new updated Windows Live Experience.
Er, yes Richard. I suppose you and them do speak the same language
@Bob: Another option for RSS feeds is to download Windows Live Mail beta from http://download.live.com/wlmail. Not only can you read all your feeds using this program, but you can also check multiple e-mail accounts (not just Hotmail), and it syncs with your Windows Live Calendar.
@Richard ththen that means that 90% of the comments on are are made by old farts like me …… good change is always accepted! bad change should be challenged!If it ain\’t broke don\’t fix it!
53 bad comments on how crap live has become and 2 on its merits does this not scream anything to you? alison, or who ever is controling \’alison the android\’, cos i (and i can understand why you wouldnt want people to know your real names,) cant find her in any of pages of workers here. get it into your heads that this is a balls up, it has more glitches than xp had when it came out, and was designed by three spotty faced teenagers in a bar on a beer mat. be ashamed, be very ashamed.
Not a WHOLE beermat, surely?
@ antonia. Live mail does sort of read feeds, but it\’s about as basic as you can get without needing a biro and a piece of paper. I think Bob\’s after something a bit more sophisticated than that.
I\’m lost on the customization part. I\’ve logged into my profile, clicked on "Options", and then "More themes". I\’ve tried every one of the themes and nothing appears at the top of my profile. I also tried adding photos to the header area as you say we can, yet they never show up at the top of the page either. What\’s going on? Instead of a theme like the one in your screen shot, I still have a blank white space. Can anyone help me with this?
@ Jake. Sorry to hear you are having trouble. I\’m not sure why the theme isn\’t working for you. A blank white space at the top is not a behavior I have ever seen before. Maybe you could try deleting your temporary internet files (in your browser\’s tools/options menu). Then try applying the theme again, and be sure to click Save on the Themes page. In terms of adding photos to the header, you can only do this on the Home page, not on your profile. Sorry if that was unclear in the article. Go to the Home page and you should see a little picture of blank photos at the top. Click that and follow the instructions to add your photos there.- Antonia Blume, Windows Live editor
Not happy. 7 friends gone and counting. You\’ve broken up the community. You\’ve taken the fun out of this. It\’s pointless to dress up your home page. No one goes there any more. The whole thing has been disrupted. Nope not happy.
Can you add an option so that we can customise Live.com and Hotmail to look and act like they used to before you broke them?
I was shocked to discover advertising appearing on my personal profile page. It doesn\’t appear when I am logged in which means that my visitors are seeing this stuff. What I saw was a sleazy, provocative, inappropriate animated ad for a dating service. It looked like an ad for hookers. I am paying for a "premium" account which is supposed to be ad-free to my visitors. Is this another part of the "new web experience?" Why are there ads of any kind appearing when I am paying extra not to have them?
I am presently in The Gambia, in West Africa and have been experiencing real problems accessing Windows Live for the past three days. This has never happened before. Even http://www.microsoft.com can only be accessed intermittently and phishing filter is not working. Is anyone experiencing this? I am not even sure this is the right place to post this, but this is the only microsoft forum I can access and it will go off soon.
My Windows Live Home page shows me that I have a holiday party tonight at 18:30. Displaying appointments in military time on my home page is just weird. Any way to change that?
Microsoft Rolls Back Hated Hotmail Changes (MSFT)Eric Krangel | December 18, 2008 4:40 PM Back in September, Microsoft (MSFT) introduced a series of "improvements" to hotmail.com that were largely panned by users. By now, web companies should be used to histrionic responses to any change in a service people are used to, but the Hotmail complaints were different: The new ad layout made it so people couldn\’t read their emails.It took a few months, but Microsoft has bowed to users\’ wishes and rolled back the changes.Another baby step in the right direction from the always-being-overhauled Microsoft online team. According to a November report, Microsoft\’s Hotmail is still the market leader in webmail with 283 million users, ahead of Yahoo\’s (YHOO) 274 million subscribers and Gmail\’s (GOOG) 113 million users.See Also:Another Microsoft Online Executive Shakeup. Good!
Themes are for children. Liberate Classic Hotmail now and get the spam filters working again.
I\’m facing a problem of accessing to certain services. It is in my Hotmail. What anger i\’m now…
Dave, noticed your comment on the Back button. Can\’t imagine why this happened to me a few times but it\’s nothing at all to do with the new Live interface as it happened way before that. I got too grumpy over too little. Taught meself Tabbed browsing to get through it. Right-click any Page title and open in new tab. Works every time (for me anyway) and saves the grumpiness:-) Can you do Tabbed Browsing?
Jen I am having to reply here, I can\’t reply to your private message because of the way that you have your communications set up, so can you just allow me to send you a private message (or an e-mail) thanks
Technogran: I\’ll have to have a look but got your message and assumed Private Messages was working. When I looked back, I couldn\’t find your message either. Apologies for blattering the Spaces Team with all this. I\’m off to check me settings. Thanks TG!
By bringing your profile, contacts, and calendar out of Spaces and Hotmail, and giving them their own links in the navigation, you should find it easier than ever to communicate and share with people you know. Above quoted from this page\’s article. My response: Actually, it\’s a bit of a nightmare as to deciding how far to allow people in but you have to be at least a little bit available, don\’t you:-) After all the stuff I\’ve read from the dear people at Microsoft about online safety, I do tend to keep things on Spaces shut off somewhat but have responded to Technogran\’s message below. It took some further tinkering to find the communications bit that I wanted to adjust but I\’ve found what I wanted.The lovliest thing about all this new stuff is that the Help Pages have all been updated, too. This is also true from within my own Vista\’s (OS) Help Pages.Nice one, Microsoft. I do keep an eye on things and notice them. Once I\’ve settled into the new routine, I\’ll be able to manage things better. Certainly the communications bit. Well done, all of you. Note to Technogran, try me again, please!
jen will do but you will have to send me another private message then I will private message you back. (lost the other one!)
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