Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, mostly in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC. I am currently a Senior Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Hotmail Frontdoor team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for the User Interface of Hotmail as well as some of the Infrastructure and Architecture. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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Couple of months ago I wrote about how these guys can’t get Calendar Sync to work.
Well, it’s taken us a long time (cause sync is hard), but by partnering with the Outlook team we now have Mail, Contacts & Calendar sync for all Windows Live Hotmail users via Outlook Connector 12.1.
Previously calendar sync was a “premium” feature that only worked with the old MSN Calendar service. Now it’s free for everyone, like it should be!
The Calendar sync now part of the Outlook Connector will sync “all” your Windows Live Calendars in Outlook allowing you to view them side by side or overlaid. This includes any calendars you have shared or are sharing with others giving you read/write access to your calendars online and offline.
Another benefit is you get a Birthday Calendar for all your Windows Live Contacts. This is a great way to stay on top of Birthdays (in addition to fbCal for Facebook, which you can now subscribe to in Windows Live Calendar).
Read more on the Hotmail team blog.
Download the new connector here.
PS – Calendar Sync is done using FeedSync formerly known as SSE.
 
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