Service Change

I’ve just noticed that Microsoft has introduced a change to Windows Live Spaces. For some reason best known to themselves, they’ve bolded the fonts used on Custom Lists, and the descriptions of List entries are no longer displayed when the list is displayed in narrow layout columns.

 

This non-displaying of descriptions has transformed some of my lists into total incomprehensibility. For example, in my "Wines I Have Known" list, I used the description field in the entries to display a rating. Now, these ratings no longer show up on the main page – all you see is a simple list of links to the wine producers. Not very useful.

 

Needless to say, Microsoft made this change without telling anyone. The Spaces product team even have a Windows Live Spaces blog – The Space Craft. I would have thought that they could have used it to announce changes like this; but no, they are wittering on about The Oscars. As if I could give a toss… I’m in full GOM mode today.

 

Update: Well, as of the 27th March 2008, I’m pleased to see that Microsoft has responded and rolled back some of the changes. In particular, my wine list now works as I intended. Good stuff.