Cloud services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone: Windows Live, reimagined

re: Cloud services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone: Windows Live, reimagined

TheJoshuaTSmith — Tue, 08 May 2012 18:34:16 GMT

@Naceron, re: WL Writer: see 10 posts above yours: (@Chris Jones - Microsoft) "We’ve received quite a few questions about our Windows Live Essentials apps from folks who use them every day. All of these apps work great on Windows 8, including Windows Live Writer. As we noted in the post we’ll share more details on our apps and services in the coming weeks."

re: Cloud services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone: Windows Live, reimagined

ShelLuser — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:27:02 GMT

I'm very happy with Windows 7, Office 2010 and my Samsung Windows Phone. As to Live; at this time its the only social network I slightly trust. I don't share personal details about myself, but I do use it to store and share /some/ personal stuff with a select number of friends.

Quite frankly I see where you're getting at but I sure hope that the service you provide now isn't going away or being changed too drastically.

As to Windows 8: Not me. As much as I love and appreciate Metro on my Windows Phone I despise seeing it on my desktop. Being forced to work with full screen applications is bad for me since I miss out on too much information. Being taken away from my desktop the very moment I merely want to start something using the menu (I also heavily utilize win-r & powershell) is just too much distraction. I began appreciating Aero and now you're taking it all away again.

Its good that you also left desktop apps in place with Win8 (for example remote desktop; us admins can also start mstsc.exe which doesn't have the full screen nonsense) but it still makes our jobs harder. Now we'll have to fend for ourselves to put this into a more accessible place.

But there's only so much room on the taskbar (pinned items) now that jumplists and the recently started programs are gone. And I /really/ dislike a desktop cluttered with icons. Yet it seems that will be the only alternative.

re: Cloud services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone: Windows Live, reimagined

Naceron — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:01:59 GMT

So what about Windows Live Writer?!!!

re: Cloud services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone: Windows Live, reimagined

Fırat Esmer — Tue, 08 May 2012 06:29:56 GMT

All in one. Nice improvement!

re: Cloud services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone: Windows Live, reimagined

vsavage — Mon, 07 May 2012 21:09:38 GMT

I think Windows 8 looks really good, but please, please, I beg you... Don't do to Skype the same crap you done to MSN Messenger!

re: Cloud services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone: Windows Live, reimagined

guptamanas — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:13:36 GMT

I'm very much disappointed with Windows 8 so far. As of now, I guess the Windows 8 CP wasn't designed / isn't meant to be used/tested in India. Most of the Metro apps like Weather, Maps, Music and Messaging do not work here. All of them report no Internet connectivity as the only issue, while I have a perfectly functional mobile broadband connection. And the reason I'm assuming this is an issue only in India is that I haven't seen anyone from other regions/countries reporting this problem.

Even if the Metro apps are in preview state, they are at least supposed to be functional in order to be tested comprehensively. Also if Microsoft don't want certain services/apps to be available outside US as of yet, there should be a note/disclaimer some where.

Secondly, even those Metro apps that work like Mail, People, Photos and IE do not match their desktop counterparts (most are part of Windows Live Essentials) in terms of GUI and powerful functions. So if Windows 8 is used on a conventional PC like mine which is a subnotebook, I don't think anyone would prefer the Metro apps to do what can be accomplished using conventional softwares in desktop environment in a much more efficient way. Plus there are hunderds of other functions and options for which softwares on desktop have to be used exclusively. And if one doesn't use the Metro interface often then what's the difference between Windows 8 minus the Metro interface and apps, and Windows 7!?! Why upgrade then?? Therefore, I would further dare say that Windows 8 hasn't been designed for conventional computers or even if its designers do think so, it's not going to be a hit on this form factor in the current form at least.

Having said that and having used Windows 8 CP for more than two months now, I can definitely say that these Metro apps are pefectly designed for tablets and Windows 8 tablets would really be pathbreaking products once they hit the market.

re: Cloud services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone: Windows Live, reimagined

No name(from japan) — Mon, 07 May 2012 08:53:38 GMT

Although it seems that there is also such an opinion in Japan ...

How is only a Windows 8PC version in change at the following specifications?

Or is not now found very much.

- Appearance of Windows 7

- the almost same user-friendliness (what returned the function here to some extent) as Windows XP --

there is an opinion of if these are unified well, fine adjustment is carried out and it will be more nice.

Although Meto UI is a thing with loading only the direction of Windows RT ...

re: Cloud services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone: Windows Live, reimagined

greg — Sun, 06 May 2012 17:09:55 GMT

Wow, a lot of responses here. So will "user@live.com" and "user@hotmail" now change to "user@windows.com" or something else?

re: Cloud services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone: Windows Live, reimagined

TheJoshuaTSmith — Sun, 06 May 2012 16:38:34 GMT

@Microsoft, I agree with @temp about having a good RSS reader. Personally, I enjoy getting RSS feeds in Outlook, but a good, free alternative from MS would be a step in the right direction, especially if you're phasing out Live Mail. Actually, his suggestion about links to Live services from the Bing homepage is a pretty good idea, too.

@DanyRodier1 & @Dom He, Foxit PDF Reader is a wonderful alternative to Adobe's products, if you're interested.

re: Cloud services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone: Windows Live, reimagined

Dom He — Sun, 06 May 2012 12:16:41 GMT

@DanyRodier1,

If you have Abode Reader or Acrobat installed, you can view pdf files on SkyDrive online