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[Singh400]

I mentioned this issue on Twitter and I didn't get a response so I'm mentioning it here.

Why does Outlook scrape my Facebook profile pic and display it?

I've no idea if the issue was looked into, or even if it was fixed. But please don't assume that I want my Facebook profile to be displayed alongside my @outlook.com/@hotmail.com adress.

Thanks,
Singh

[Marshall]

I'm not a fan of the 'Metro' interface but this looks so much better than hotmail. Kudos to your team.

[drcrawfo]

I would love to see the ability to create more advanced rules for sorting mail, particularly boolean operators. A quick view for all mail (sent, received, all folders) would be great. I'll also second the desire for an "archive" option. I don't want messages to sit in my inbox, but I don't necessarily want to delete them or file them into a specific folder.

[BajiRav]

How do you avoid branding confusion with Outlook and Outlook.com?
Is there a way to see all my online contacts in one place (similar to the Hotmail version of web messenger) without switching to People?
Can I permanently filter my Contacts/People such that my birthday calendar only shows my actual contacts?
When I receive email to one of my aliases and reply using a Windows Phone, the email goes out as my actual Outlook id instead of the alias? Can you fix this or do the WP guys need to do it?
Anyway to customize People theme similar to Outlook?
Any plans to allow custom fields in People/Contacts such that I can assign say two mobile phones to a contact? Right now I can only have one type of phone (mobile/home/work) per contact.

[bdsams]

Here's my question! I had a previous skydrive account with 25gb and now I have an awesome outlook.com domain, can i bring over that skydrive account to my new outlook.com one? I really don't want to lose my 25Gbs!

[Matthew_Thepc]

Some things: When will we get...ability to delete contacts imported from Facebook, ability to change the pictures for contacts, ABILITY TO CHAT WITH GMAIL would be more than awesome , and the ability to pop out the chat window are all I can think of off the top of my head, but I'm sure I'll think of more ;P

ehehe, and as for a real question instead of bug improvement, when are you going to roll out the Metro (oh, and what are you guys planning to call Metro?) SkyDrive and Metro Calendar panes? And how are you planning to market it (like, TV/web/newspaper/magazine ads)?

[TheRomit]

Please enable Send Email As so that I can move my personalized domain email to Outlook.com :-)

Having said that, what is the best way to move my 4GB mailbox from Office 365 to Outlook.com? Are you planning to have some import/migrate functionality? It is very slow and unreliable doing it from local PST to local PST via Outlook 2010.

[Andreas Balzer]

1) Did you consider the consequences of people renaming their accounts? Windows Phone devices need to be reset, XBox needs to be reconfigured, .. Would have been nice to get them reconfigured automatically
2) Is it possible to migrate Office 365 Interface to Outlook.com and vice versa? How/why not?
3) In my opinion the Outlook.com Interface is a mess. The menu bar on top seems to be visually seperated from the emails although their buttons are supposed to trigger events on emails. Will there be any improvements to the UI or is it final?
4) There is a Magnitude of Client applications to access emails (Outlook, Windows Live Mail, Windows Mail, ..) Anything on your "agenda" to unify These in the next 20 >years?
5) The connected experience between XBox, Windows Music, ..., Windows Media Center, Windows Phone, Skype (application) and Outlook.com just doesn't seem to be there. I won't ask for anything on your agenda but changes would be nice ;-)

[Thorsman]

Congratulation on delivering a great service in outlook.com! Are you planning to give us the option to make localized adresses as you did with live.com adresses? E. g. will we be able to make an adress like name@outlook.no? I would love it!

Keep up the good work!

[Singh400]

Singh400, on 06 August 2012 - 21:52, said:

I mentioned this issue on Twitter and I didn't get a response so I'm mentioning it here.

Why does Outlook scrape my Facebook profile pic and display it?

I've no idea if the issue was looked into, or even if it was fixed. But please don't assume that I want my Facebook profile to be displayed alongside my @outlook.com/@hotmail.com adress.

Thanks,
Singh

In addition to that, why is there a 16 max characters policy enforced on passwords?

And not to be too negative - I love the new UI. It's fantastic.

Thanks,
Singh

[Ryoken]

I'd like to know the [ or if there is ] POP3/IMAP/Exchange servers we can access, so we can manually set up Outlook.com with any mail clients we want.

I'm glad that it works seamlessly in iOS, but on my Nexus 7, I don't want to have to download a new app just to get my mail from there.

[NCRader]

Travelar, on 06 August 2012 - 21:45, said:

Well done and I'm enjoying the interface. How can I merge two Outlook.com accounts? I didn't see the option for aliases the first time through, so I set up the second account that I needed. I'd like to delete one account and turn the other into alias. I don't want the 270 days for the deleted account to clear the system.

First I want to say I LOVE the new interface and though we cannot call the design "METRO" (which I think as a sidenote, is a mistake for MS not to pursue), I think it is great and is only going to grow - everything else looks dated compared to MS new designs - So glad to see Microsoft leading the way again.

Now, praise aside, there has been one major issue plaguing many early adopters (especially those loyal to many MS services like myself). Please see THIS THREAD. There is a solution that worked for my scenario (created new outlook.com with address I wanted to migrate old live to, but did nothing with it) - this solution is on page 5 of the string posted by sss_ms. The solution is cumbersome and scary, but did work. Microsoft needs to step up and figure this issue out AND make it very clear that you can "rename" old live address, before even more create separate accounts or alias that create 30 or 270 day waiting periods to solve the problem.

Thanks for the incredible work. I hope to see the team follow up a great product with some major transition assistance for early adopters.

[jwil1]

IMAP. IMAP IMAP IMAP.

Also, why can't I transfer my free 25GB SkyDrive capacity to a new Outlook.com address?

I am truly loving Outlook.com btw. I am just waiting for SkyDrive and Calendar to go Metro, then I'm switching from Gmail.

[petrolly]

hi there Outlook.com team. I have a important bug to report, one that keeps me from using Outlook.com in conjunction with Outlook 2010 and 2013.

While using my Live.com/hotmail account, any reply sent from Outlook 2010 or 2013 is threaded inside Outlook client, of course, but is NOT threaded on Outlook.com (the sent mail is only present in the Sent folder, not in the Inbox thread) (this bug was happening on Hotmail.com also). This is true while using the Outlook Connector plugin. This is a major pain and means that I've about given up using Outlook on the desktop. I have to use Outlook.com for my personal mail, but Outlook client for my freelance business.

What's ironic is that Gmail threading syncs perfectly while using Outlook 2010 and Gmail.com together. (not so much with Outlook 2013)

Please get Outlook.com to recognize that mail sent from Outlook client mail is part of the same thread! Thanks!

[deadheadline]

Announcements and guides aswell as warnings might help a lot of people migrating.In those guides the Outlook team should provide information regarding : Windows Phone reconfiguring.The difference between Outlook and older email clients/sites.The pluses and minuses aswell as options while migrating.Lots of people were confused when they started to migrate.