Bing Travel, Bing Community, and your Windows Live ID – why are they separate?

re: Bing Travel, Bing Community, and your Windows Live ID – why are they separate?

TedHoward — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:10:18 GMT

There's also another 'buddy list' in the community site. So, Windows Live Messenger list, Live Home network list, Hotmail address book, Xbox LIVE list, this one, and I'm probably forgetting some.

re: Bing Travel, Bing Community, and your Windows Live ID – why are they separate?

JohnCz — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:43:15 GMT

I agree with your post but we should remember that a) this is still being rolled out, and b) it is currently in Preview/Beta status. So I would expect some wrinkles that will be ironed out in the weeks ahead. Overall, I'm very pleased with what I'm seeing already...especially around performance.

re: Bing Travel, Bing Community, and your Windows Live ID – why are they separate?

Gilly — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:11:59 GMT

I found this to be annoying too, another thing is that there is no "forgot password?" system there yet, for Bing Community at least. I signed up as I had one of the few preview codes but it then wouldn't let me sign in to community today when signed in with normal Live ID after using the ID bing gave me last week. I wanted to check the password was correct but there was no way to do that.

However when I tweeted about bing sent me a tweet straight back saying that they are working on the system, so hopefully they are listening to the community.