What would you say to leaders of services at Microsoft ?

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phillechillQ — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

Enabling POP in hotmail would be a good start!

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Aero R1 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

are you really going to ask this question? when you get questions and comments that you dont like, dont complain in your podcast about it.

here is one, stop charging for content and let the publishers provide it for free like they want to!

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NITF STICK — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:28:51 GMT

Get rid of the points system. Use straight up currency. Lower the price of HD movie rentals and get more of them.

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hevymetldude — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:10:36 GMT

make a singstar like game...!

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PupaBoy — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:29:50 GMT

1. Make all the X-Box1 arcade games available for download on the X-Box360's arcade.

2. Enable the DVR feature on the X-Box360

3. Add crossfunctionality between the X-Box360 and Zune/Windows Mobile based devices.

4. How about broadcasting some original video programming over X-Box Live? X-Box Live could be like a network like DirecTV, Comcast, or Dish Network. Microsoft would stream some live events or new programs over X-Box Live. Hire Diana Mizota (formerly from G4) to host something, please!

5. Let us copy JPG files to our 360's harddrives. I would love to copy some of my toddler's photos to my harddrive.

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hevymetldude — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:45:11 GMT

ok - here are my statements. 1. xbox is not cool anymore..Don't get me wrong..I am #1 Fanboy but something has happened... During the original XBOX times I had a feeling about like its everything cool and it had a bit more glamour...more marketing more xbox here and xbox there.. NOW I can see the excel charts with breakeven, TCO and Stock-Reports infront of the heads of the executives from here. There is absolute nothing sexy about the 360 - its just a "next-generation" console...there is nothing unique. 2. people in my forum (>3000 XBOX/XBOX360 Users (www.areagames.de)) are having discussion about xbox live is worth its money... They see XboxLive basically as a plain Matchmaking System with some Stats and Rankings and don't see why they should pay for it (as PC-Games provide almost the same for the cost of the game). XBL-Games all use peer2peer technology and thats somewhat difficult here in Germany. Germany's major Backbone-Providers uses a technique that provides more failtollerance with the cost of more latency. So while you guys on your t1-lines got 10ms from host to host we have 60-100ms from our host to the next DSLAM...you can easly imagine what happens if our matches are infiltrated by overseas players...our games become lags and everything starts to stutter and frustration comes up. HALO3 against americans...on a 6MBit Line...forget it. Second...the bandwithcapacity for "broadband" ranges from 128kbit up to 16Mbit. To come back to XBL - they demand that XBL should provide dedicated servers for the money...they even offer to pay more. 3. Replace german XBOX Management...those guys totally sucks at all...but thats just my personal opinion.

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Phage — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:02:39 GMT

What would be cool is if their was a 'local networking' 1st party app for windows based portable devices . An idea I just got would be a piece of social networking software that met you up with like minded people using local wireless networking. The device would automatically detect nearby windows devices and load the device's user's (self created) profile, if available, wirelessly. The profiles throughout the day could either be screened for storage by certain attributes (like a particular interest, or home location, etc.) or all be logged in bulk. Devices could also be set to auto send preset messages to friends along the lines of "I'm around here, you want a cup of coffee?" or anything else the user may desire to say, mainly to catch a friend for meeting up, or maybe even starting social gatherings (or flash mobbing ;) ). Profiles,specifically, would have a certain number of options that would help screen exchanges of information between the devices. These options would be along the lines of interests, personalities, etc. Each option would have to be selected from a preset list created by MS, for both creation and screening of profiles... this would be for the sole purpose of simplifying the 'search' process, while still allowing users to enter more personalized information in the profile's body. Of course, users could petition MS for more interests,etc that could be added based on popularity. Other than that, normal chat,etc functionality would be built in. It would definitely be a cool app for the urban technophile, and since it would be 1st party, there would be a wide potential user base.

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Wednesday13 fan — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:31:01 GMT

TO begin with I would like to say thankyou for this opportunity. I would like to say that I personally don't think xbox live should become free because for the service to remain the same or to improve costs must be recouped from somewhere so it may result in software publishers charging fees for online play per game [like final fantasy] and this could end up being more costly for gamers in the longrun. one idea I have is for wireless headsets to have a small beeper device added for when you loose it around your home. Another feature I would like to see added is the ability to share music with friends both in appropriate games and whilst on dashboard listening to music.

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rottenbrain — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:59:17 GMT

Microsoft??

Vuestra política de que el usuario testee los sistemas operativos inperfecto que lanzais al mercado me parece una tomadura de pelo. Como todos los productos que lanzais, la xbox 360 es una chapuza.

Aprended de linux, de sony y de los usuarios...sólo pensais en el dinero.

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p3los — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:50:00 GMT

Halo 3 is an awesome game... i would not doubt it...

but...

WHERE'S KEYB&MICE SUPPORT???

Then it'd be perfect.

Thanks

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Stefan — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:43:57 GMT

Microsoft needs to be open with their formats, so that they can be compatible on a wide range of platforms. It's fine if you want to create your own formats, if you think you can do a better job, but they should be available to be implemented by other people.

How can you expect to have your formats like wmv and wma to become widespread if they are restricted to Microsoft products only. You might be able to get away with it on the PC, due to your dominance of the market, but as the mp3 market has shown, it doesn't work everywhere.

In terms of Xbox, the console should support other video formats such as xVid and you should be more open with your wireless spec. It's disappointing for Rock Band to not have a wireless guitar due to entirely non-technical issues.

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Rubén — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:39:55 GMT

No bugs.

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DavidMP — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:09:57 GMT

Make the 360 and the Zune a better weapon, making the Zune martket place compatible with the 360 and the Zune compatible with the Xbox Video Marketplace and Some games

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dt — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:00:02 GMT

divx playback capabilities on the 360.

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Steve — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:44:33 GMT

PLEASE include more valid regions for XBOX Live, including MALTA. Thanks

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florin — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:13:02 GMT

your problem is perceptual. the look & feel of microsoft is a higher aesthetic (that you people push due to your european-like relaxed notion of more). the problem is that people see it as a lifting they can't afford and as they trivialize it you lose. in fact the usual american notion of more is based on trivialization: you people shut up only when there's nothing else that you can destroy. the guy who made google is not from america and, like me, can see this quite easily.