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# Thursday, September 18, 2008

Windows Live Calendar gets To Dos

At long last, we have shipped To Dos. It’s been a long time since I worked on Windows Live Calendar and we were talking about building To Dos. The best part about To Dos is that they work with Shared Calendars. In other words, if you and your spouse have a “Family Calendar” you can now create and manage a shared task list… something Google Calendar still doesn’t have.

With the new release of Windows Live Calendar and the new Beta releases of the Windows Live Suite there is a ton of great end to end Calendar functionality.

  1. Outlook Connector to sync all your Windows Live Calendars to Outlook, including your Birthday Calendar for all your Contacts.
  2. Windows Live Mail now with Calendar Sync will also sync all your Windows Live Calendars
  3. Shared Calendars that you can create, share and manage with other Windows Live Users
  4. Calendar Subscriptions to public internet calendars that you can subscribe and sync to all the products above.

And of course now To Dos. Dare should be happy about this. He’ll need it when the baby comes :-).

I’ll also add that the new UI of Windows Live Calendar is awesome. Here is a picture of what To Dos look like when you have 2 calendars. You can see I have my personal calendar and my Family Calendar. You can create tasks in either calendar and they will show up depending on who you share with.

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Friday, September 19, 2008 1:16:09 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
until i read the post i was thinking it was sorta weird that you guys would bother to port to DOS
Friday, September 19, 2008 8:10:19 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Do you know if the Outlook Connector will support syncing of TODOs? Also, any idea when calendar sync for windows mobile will be available?
John
Friday, September 19, 2008 2:26:47 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Is there a way to search for events within my calendars?
BlogReader
Sunday, September 21, 2008 5:12:40 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
@John Todos don't sync yet.

@BlogReader not at this time
Monday, September 22, 2008 5:47:23 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Is To-Dos going to be part of wave 4? or perhaps the final release of wave 3?

The more features we get, the more we expect =P haha

Calendar is great though, love the new online theme...
Monday, September 29, 2008 3:12:01 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Hey I noticed your screenshot of Windows Live Calendar, is it an advanced version? As I cannot find that particular orange theme on my Windows Live Calendar.
Anon
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