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Merge with Windows Live Home? RRS feed

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  • I just feel that Windows Live Home seems a bit redundant to me. The things available in Windows Live Home could all be easily made into official gadgets for My.Live.com, and My.Live.com could even offer the option for customization and personalization, unlike the rigid Windows Live Home that doesn't seem very useful to me at all especially when My.Live.com is available.

    If it is meant to serve the purpose of linking all the Windows Live services in one place, doesn't the new http://windowslive.com carry that function already? My.Live.com could also easily serve that purpose provided it has a standardised header that links to all the services.

    I really hope that the two would merge one day, similar to the early concept like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/LiveCom2.jpg
    Wednesday, August 6, 2008 12:59 PM

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  • Excellent idea, the home.live.com seems redunant to me as well, given that it's easy to create gadgets for those services.
    Wednesday, August 6, 2008 4:25 PM
  • Yeah I'm with you on that ... to me there seems to be so many great ideas coming out of the team and this then in turn creates different homepages. One branding in one location seems to make more sence
    Thursday, August 14, 2008 6:44 AM
  • I agree as well. No point in having duplicate services. It would be good to see some of the features in home.live.com incorporated into my.live.com as a gadget or as its own "page" within My.Live.Com so i can see friend updates in a section other than my rss feesd
    Friday, August 15, 2008 4:50 PM
  • I am involved with a "digital empowerment" program in Miami, and the new clients are confused by the many live options:  my.live.com, home.live.com, officelive.com, workspaces.officelive.com, live mesh, etc.  There needs to be one control center that allows a single passport to be used which will allow clients to navigate to the various live components.  As in, you sign into my.live.com which provides you with a navigation bar to business connectivity (office.live.com), personal use (my.live.com, home.live.com), mesh support (live mesh), and collaboration (workspace.officelive.com).  At this point clients are confused about the offerings and often go to the wrong .live location and then can't grasp why the display does not "look right".   Simplicity in linking all of the live components together via a web dashboard would increase adotpion rate and usability.  Just my thoughts.....
    Josteen
    Friday, August 22, 2008 2:25 AM
  • Josteen said:

    I am involved with a "digital empowerment" program in Miami, and the new clients are confused by the many live options:  my.live.com, home.live.com, officelive.com, workspaces.officelive.com, live mesh, etc.  There needs to be one control center that allows a single passport to be used which will allow clients to navigate to the various live components.  As in, you sign into my.live.com which provides you with a navigation bar to business connectivity (office.live.com), personal use (my.live.com, home.live.com), mesh support (live mesh), and collaboration (workspace.officelive.com).  At this point clients are confused about the offerings and often go to the wrong .live location and then can't grasp why the display does not "look right".   Simplicity in linking all of the live components together via a web dashboard would increase adotpion rate and usability.  Just my thoughts.....


    Josteen




    Josteen
    Friday, August 22, 2008 2:26 AM
  • Josteen said:

    I am involved with a "digital empowerment" program in Miami, and the new clients are confused by the many live options:  my.live.com, home.live.com, officelive.com, workspaces.officelive.com, live mesh, etc.  There needs to be one control center that allows a single passport to be used which will allow clients to navigate to the various live components.  As in, you sign into my.live.com which provides you with a navigation bar to business connectivity (office.live.com), personal use (my.live.com, home.live.com), mesh support (live mesh), and collaboration (workspace.officelive.com).  At this point clients are confused about the offerings and often go to the wrong .live location and then can't grasp why the display does not "look right".   Simplicity in linking all of the live components together via a web dashboard would increase adotpion rate and usability.  Just my thoughts.....


    Josteen


    Agreed, why cant everything just work together. We want constancy Microsoft nothing else. Thats why many criticize you. your to busy worying about the "fun" side as well as designing a crappy UI that look like a 5 year old drew it and doesnt even match vista. Dont tell me windows 7 will look like that. if it does then good bye windows.

    I rather wait and see wave 3 be delayed for this to be added in. Its much more important then a childish UI.

    Chris
    Friday, August 22, 2008 6:23 AM