Windows Live Calendar
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Time to make plans
Easily schedule appointments and meetings, set reminders, sync multiple calendars, and let others know when you’ll be available and when you’ll be busy.
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iCal subscriptions
Subscribe to any Windows Live or 3rd party public iCal calendar or Windows Live public calendar hosted on the Internet.
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Easy organization
View your schedule online—by day, week, or month. Add an event in seconds. Need to reschedule? It’s as easy as drag-and-drop.
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Calendar sharing
Calendar makes it easy to coordinate schedules with others while it keeps you in control of which information you share and how you share it. View personal, family, and group calendars all in one place.
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Reminders
Get reminders via e-mail, Windows Live Messenger, or text messages sent to your mobile so you'll never miss another appointment. (You may be charged a fee by your mobile provider.)
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Holiday calendar
With default birthday and holiday calendars, you’ll always know about important dates and celebrations.
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Windows Live Calendar
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Mail
Sync your Mail calendar with Windows Live Calendar so no matter where you go, you always know where you’re supposed to be.
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- Basics
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Just getting started?
With Calendar, you can track appointments, share your calendar, set reminders, and let others know when you'll be free—and when you're busy. These step-by-step instructions show you how!
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Create a new calendar
Create separate calendars for all the areas of your life: family, work, friends, and more.
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Birthdays in Windows Live Calendar
Easily keep track of your friends’ and families’ birthdays.
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Share calendar
It’s easy to share your calendar with friends and family – or with a group – to keep your schedules in sync.
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Reminders in Windows Live Calendar
Use your calendar to remind you of what you need to do.
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- Connect
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Sync Windows Live Mail & Windows Live Calendar
Sync Calendar with Windows Live Mail so you always have access to your schedule – online and off.
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Sync Outlook & Windows Live Calendar
Now you can easily sync Windows Live Calendar with Outlook so your schedule is always at your fingertips.
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- Organize
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Subscribe to public (iCal) calendars
Subscribe to public calendars and import ICS files so you never miss an important event.
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Day/Week/Month/Agenda views
Click a tab – change your view. What could be easier?
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Birthdays in Windows Live Calendar
Easily keep track of your friends’ and families’ birthdays.
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US Holidays in Windows Live Calendar
Easily keep track of US Holidays so you can look forward to each celebration.
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Charms in Windows Live Calendar
Easily keep track of your personal events in Windows Live Calendar.
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To-do’s in Windows Live Calendar
Use your calendar to keep track of what you need to do.
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Reminders in Windows Live Calendar
Use your calendar to remind you of what you need to do.
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Share calendar
It’s easy to share your calendar with friends and family – or with a group – to keep your schedules in sync.
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Create an event
Plan parties, meetings, or a night out, and send personal invitations—all from inside Calendar.
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Learn more from people like you
Check out what our bloggers have to say about Calendar
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Windows Live and You: “Making my views known on behalf of the ‘little everyday user’” (Technogran)
8/21/2009 8:00:58 AM, mynetx
Talking about Windows Live always means talking about its users—the tech-savvy ones as well as the “normal” users. Today I am talking with Technogran, a ‘geeky grandma trying desperately to keep up with it all’, as she describes herself. She lives in ...
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Where’s the party?
9/11/2009 7:42:18 PM, Greg
The other day when one of my explanations was running a little long, a colleague asked for the “Twitter” version. In other words, “give me the high level overview in 140 characters or less.” I thought that was pretty clever, so I decided it might be a ...
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Fix Live Calendar & Windows Live Mail Calendar Sync
9/21/2009 4:13:17 AM, Manan
I’ve had this issue various times, the problem is that every time you add an event in Windows Live Mail, it simply disappears. No error, no notification. The event is not added. The issue is a bug which for some reason has skipped rectification. However, ...
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Wave 4 exclusive: Windows Live Events shutting down
8/3/2009 12:34:18 PM, mynetx
Windows Live Events is a Windows Live service enabling users in Windows Live Spaces to share and plan different types of Events happening around them while collaborating with other services such as Windows Live Calendar and Windows Live Spaces. In 2010, ...
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Windows Live and You: “Listen to and talk with customers all over the world” (Marcus Schmidt, Microsoft)
10/8/2009 5:34:47 AM, mynetx
Summer is over—but my interview series “Windows Live and You” is not. Today I talked with Marcus Schmidt, who is working for Microsoft and keeping in touch with people like you, to find out what users truly think about Windows and Windows Live. Marcus ...
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Lay it on me
9/28/2009 12:41:04 PM, Greg
Windows Live Mail is a great entry-level desktop mail client, and I’m certainly not knocking it. But many of you have discovered the goodness that is the Outlook Connector, and you use Outlook 2007’s vastly superior tools to manage your Windows Live ...
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