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Bug 707684 - Windows Live doesn't exist anymore
Windows Live doesn't exist anymore
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 710764
Product: gnome-online-accounts
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: GNOME Online Accounts maintainer(s)
GNOME Online Accounts maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-09-07 13:39 UTC by Moo
Modified: 2015-03-26 19:46 UTC
See Also:
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Description Moo 2013-09-07 13:39:07 UTC
In GNOME Online Accounts you can select "Windows Live".

However, Windows Live has been discontinued and no longer exists.
So this entry should probably be renamed to "Microsoft Account".
Comment 1 Debarshi Ray 2013-09-07 20:06:14 UTC
I know that they deprecated their XMPP endpoint in favour of Skype, but what do you mean by "Windows Live has been discontinued"? Can you point me to the URL?
Comment 2 Moo 2013-09-07 22:27:16 UTC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live

"Windows Live was the collective brand name for a set of services and software products from Microsoft; part of their software plus services platform. In April 2013, the website was closed down."

"The Windows Live brand was phased out during August 2012; coinciding with the RTM of Windows 8."

Now it is just called "Microsoft account", I guess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_account
Comment 3 Debarshi Ray 2013-09-09 11:28:58 UTC
I see. There was no single identity for what we call as Windows Live. eg., if you look at their icon you will see that they a mix of the butterfly and Windows logos. This is why we don't ship an icon for it. So this confusion is nothing new. :-)

Regarding the website being closed down, I can still use https://skydrive.live.com and https://login.live.com/. That said we could rename it to "Microsoft" or "Microsoft Account", but then we also have "Microsoft Exchange" in there, so having 2 "Microsoft ..." entries could be confusing. I don't know.

Since we are in UI and String Freeze for 3.10 and things have always been a bit confusing on this front, I prefer not to change the name this late in the cycle. We can think of something for 3.12.
Comment 4 Andreas Nilsson 2013-10-23 22:26:21 UTC
Created bug #710764 about the icon
Comment 5 Nick Richards 2015-02-02 18:26:16 UTC
Microsoft themselves call things that use this auth 'Microsoft Account'.
Comment 6 Debarshi Ray 2015-03-26 17:04:47 UTC
We are discussing the same thing in bug 710764 , but Andreas made some nice icons there,
Comment 7 Debarshi Ray 2015-03-26 17:04:57 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 710764 ***
Comment 8 Moo 2015-03-26 19:46:15 UTC
Also rename goa-account-msn.png to goa-account-microsoft.png