Ink Desktop is a great idea, but I can't stand it. Actually, I was able to use it 10 mins after installing it and haven't used it since. That's not a testament to how great of an idea it is, tho. If it weren't for this mouse vs. pen input issue I have, I'd love it to death. Well, I'd like it a lot, at least. My problem is two-fold. First, you can't select anything on the desktop when the app is running because clicking the desktop is treated as inking. This is my main aggravation. Second, I never plan on inking with my mouse, so don't treat the mouse like a pen. I can't imagine anyone would try to write with their mouse, but if that's important, provide some configuration setting to allow me to disable the mouse for inking. Without these two things, I don't see myself ever using Ink Desktop.

Windows Live Custom Domains allows you to utilize WL Mail  for your domain. There are a few things I'd like to see, tho. First, I'd like to customize the URL I use to access the site. Instead of mail.live.com, I'd like mail.michaelflanakin.com, for instance. Next, it'd be nice if I could sign in without specifying the domain name. Not a big deal, but it'd be nice. Lastly, I wish I could customize the look and feel of the site used to access email. Since WL Mail is built with .NET, a master page seems the best solution here. I'm sure there are certain requirements of the UI, but I'd be willing to work around those to get the look and feel I want.

Edit: I just reported this, but seeing as tho WL feedback isn't published, I doubt we'll hear back about this anytime soon. I need to see if there's an internal resource to discuss feature requests.

For the most part, I've been very happy with the spell checker and thesaurus (synonym) features of Office. One thing I'd like to see, tho, is the ability to spell check and/or lookup synonyms/antonyms from any application. This could be done using a global shortcut that would spell check based on what's in the clipboard or just open a window where you could copy/paste in what you want to check. There are various add-ons and extensions that will add this capability to browsers and other tools, but I want one dictionary/thesaurus that's global. I can see this going into Office or Windows; either way, I'd be happy. If you want this to be provided to everyone, put it in Windows; otherwise, put it in Office. I'm thinking of Word's spell checker and thesaurus shortcuts are F7 and Shift-F7, so I'm thinking Win-F7 and Win-Shift-F7 would be perfect.

There is a tool I found which does this, which was a partial inspiration to this suggestion, but I'd really like to see a global solution with a shared dictionary. Honestly, the clipboard may not be the best data source for this, but it's the only shared location I can think of that wouldn't reach into running applications to pull out data, which I'd see as a security risk.