Microsoft launched UserVoice-based feedback sites for both Windows and Windows Phone in order to receive suggestions from fans about how to improve those operating systems. Now, with the launch of Windows 10 for the PC and the upcoming release of Windows 10 Mobile for smartphones, Microsoft is retiring the UserVoice sites for Windows and Windows Phone in favor of receiving suggestions directly from the Windows Feedback app.
In posts on both sites, Microsoft says:
"With more than 110 million devices running Windows 10, we want to consolidate our feedback tools into one system that will enable our engineering team able to respond faster to the feedback from our community. To get timely user feedback directly to the right feature teams, we developed a built-in "Windows Feedback" app in Windows 10. Windows Feedback gives all engineers in Windows access to the complete set of raw feedback that users provide in the tool. Because it is plugged directly into our engineering system, it not only makes it easy for the engineers to find user feedback, but also makes it easy for them to act on it. Windows Feedback also enabled two-way conversations between engineers and our more than seven million Windows Insiders. This allows you to see if your feedback is in our systems, and ready to be promoted to a work item."
The Windows Phone and Windows UserVoice sites are currently ramping down their operations but both will still be accessible until November 16.
Thanks to Igor for the tip!
Source: Windows Phone UserVoice, Windows UserVoice
Reader comments
Windows and Windows Phone UserVoice being replaced by Feedback app
Can update music Xbox in windows phone 8.1? the volume is very limited
Msft feedback has too many duplicates. With uservoice you could at least hyperlink in the comments to a revenant other issue.
How are windows phone 8.1 users supposed to give suggestions for features in windows 10 mobile?
And they sometimes remove some features one would wonder what they would be thinking, like call duration is missing on W1OW.
And these fixed contact labels drives me nuts,
Good decision.
I've noticed that the feedback submissions are being managed very badly by Microsoft. Many insiders write new feedback instead of upvoting a similar one. That's why you see multiple feedbacks all saying the same thing with 2 or 3 upvotes to each. All such feedbacks should be grouped into just one whose number of upvotes shall be the sum of the upvotes of individual feedback. Then there are feedback that have long been implemented but haven't been removed yet from the lists.
Microsoft really needs a dedicated team to run the service and to knock top suggestions off the ticker by getting fixes out to users as quickly as possible. Both the feedback app and uservoice are filled with obvious suggestions, often with hundreds or even thousands of upvotes. Many of these could be fixed with only a few hours of work, and doing so should be a top priority for Microsoft. Sadly, most will be ignored for years and probably never addressed. Instead we get periodic fixes of minute things like font spacing and icon consistency. Come on Microsoft, your users are giving you a roadmap on how to improve your product, is it really necessary to ignore 99% of all feedback, and to take months to years to implement the 1% you do address?
Much easier than using UserVoice, on mobile anyway.
seems faster
I didn't use Windows 10 PC nor W10M. So I hope we get an app on W10M to see what's trending, what's hot, and voting count like we used to see on the user voice site
This does exist and more, like filter my build - plus, you can feedback from many apps directly, as well as use the dedicated feedback app.
All good stuff imho :)
In W10M?
Yes, in W10m there is a Windows Feedback app and many apps contain feedback directly within the app.
You can up vote other users comments or add your own, as well as filter on trending, new, my build etc.
WoW man
You Just made my day
Thanks for all that info buddy
Good decision by Microsoft.
This is a good move I think. More people can use the feedback apps and you aren't limited in your number of upvotes so you can really give your proper feedback to microsoft! Plus most people who weren't avid windows users wouldn't know about uservoice but with it being in the OS more people will see it and provide feedback.. Now just improve the feedback app to make up for any differences and we're good. Need to merge the Cortana one and others in as well too.
Whats after november 16th?
Hlw staff please request for internet speed meter build app in window 10 .. This will be controlled from data sense app.. We can on or off it from data sense.. It will show us full detail of data usage day wise or month wise by single app usage wise.. Upload and download speed show us in phone status bar.. There is lot of space available.. Please request to microsoft update data sense app with this ability.. Now window 10 work with background work.. So it is easy to add this feature.. Please add it in between battery and sim network where emplty space available.. Please staff .. Huwei mobile also made this feature default.. They also provide user in own build like own app locker, own call recorder, own battery meter, own data sense, own cleaner for clean extra files, own recorder, or many features.. Please say to microsoft add some feature in window 10 also.. Update first data sense.. Please paste it in feedback app.. I have window 8.1 so no feedback app
Lumia user voice & betalabs website was shut down in September,its good they are providing feedback app but apps from betalabs like Glance background beta and Lumia storage check beta are not available in store.Before shutting down they should at least provide an alternative.
Glance background beta had the ability to give you an option to put any photo in glance screen. But I think you don't need it anymore, because I can do that with the normal glance app on my 1520, if you can't do that it means your phone is not supported.
Lumia storage check beta had only on unique option, which is saving maps on SD card. And with W10M you have that option in the storage sence
Normal glance only provides the option to assign lockscreen photo as glance background and I have Lumia 830,I once had glance background beta app but recently I had to reset my phone,I tried to download it again but its unavailable now.
Yes you are right
My only question: why about the multi-year input on uservoice? Will those thousands of inputs be migrated into the New system, or MSFT gently forgets the padt? Has the number of (UNRESOLVED) requests grew so large, it became shameful for MSFT so they started to feel uncomfortable. With the bi-annual reboot of projects, these snnoyances can disappear without traces. Just 1 more remark: if you really believe that only the lack of organized feedback system was the reason why so many issues are missing from WP and xbox music/video for years, you are very very very naive.
No one from MS has ever read anything on UserVoice anyway...
Yes, I know this as well.. I meant to keep the illusion running, that those bloat-headed jerks @ MSFT do give a sh.t about the public demand (when in fact as we all know clear, they loud and clear: Dont. Give. A. Sh.t...)
So how people using iOS and Android apps like Groove will give feedbacks??
My main complain about Feedback app is that at least here in Brazil they didn't clean any kind of feedbacks, even feedbacks already done by months ago! So is pretty hard to find something really useful there.
The same way as giving feedback for any other app, contact the developer or use Feedback setting, if one exists.
The problem is if the feedback function in the app doesn't exist and also how they can contact the developer directly? Review system on the app stores?
At this rate, non Insider but wants to participate on feedback won't be able to contribute anymore.
Exactly, I was reporting Groove on Android for crashing multiple times a day... Never saw a response...
Cool
Yey that's awesome!
It's their version for the elephant graveyard
The build in Feedback system is much more useful in gathering data.
How can I change the region for my Windows feedback app? It keeps appearing in my language (not English) and I am afraid that it will take a long time for my brilliant ideas to propagate to engineers at Microsoft. Or maybe they just redirect this all to NUL?
In such cases I just start to search in English and upvote or create new in English. But if there is permanen way I want to know too :)
Change keyboard language while in the app and it will reload content for that language. I noticed this when all feedback changed to Swedish (second language in Finland) :)
They do even see 'foreign' feedback in their system. Although I don't know the change they see it, with a lower vote score.
Feedback from all regions is consolidated into a single database in the end so don't worry about it. You can even comment on own language as feedback will be translated to English.
I'm not surprise at all because Windows Insider's Feedback app can engage more user than UserVoice.
I guess that makes sense. I just wish they had a better system in the feedback app so you could see "hot right now" like they had on Uservoice. It'd also be nice if they could add something like "working on it", "completed", etc... To the feedback app like they have on Uservoice.
It's called trending. It's there on pc.
Yes, I like the filter function, allows us to see comments filtered by trending, new, my build etc.
Makes complete sense.
Not really, because the current feedback app is crap. Especially on phones.
I use it quite often without problems.
I prefer the app to user voice as it's much more immediate and easier to use.
I sent feedback asking they make it a fully Universal app so that it can match the PC even more...like no one knows how to use the filters =\
They really have to improve the Feedback app alot. Currently it's really poor at discoverability of feedbacks. If you posted a feedback like one week ago, others will likely not going to find it at all.
Maybe you should submit some feedback about the feedback app.
Definitely should because you can... ;D