Comments on: CyberNotes: iCal vs. Windows Calendar

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:00:45 +0000

how do you accept a meeting request from ical in outlook?? Just bought a new Mac for the house (Love it!!), but my wife and I have really gotten used to inviting each other to the kids events and now that she is running the Mac, I get the email with the appt attached, but no way to accept the meeting and add it to my calendar withput having to create the meeting myself on my end. Any help is appreciated.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:20:06 +0000

anomymous2 wrote:

One more thing (in Apple style): iCal integrates with Address Book and Mail. Windows Calendar doesn’t. MS hopes everyone will use Outlook.

Microsoft of course doesn't want to make anything overly robust because of Outlook. The iCal integration with the Address Book isn't all that extravagant though. The only area it really integrates with is adding attendees.

By: anomymous2

anomymous2 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:10:02 +0000

One more thing (in Apple style): iCal integrates with Address Book and Mail. Windows Calendar doesn’t. MS hopes everyone will use Outlook.

By: anomymous

anomymous — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:07:30 +0000

Also take a look at: [macvswindows.com]

iCal supports CalDAV and it has an API meaning other apps can update and keep track of your appointments, tasks and to-dos. It has a separate birthday calendar. Windows Calendar doesn’t have any of that. Apple actually dedicated a lot of time and effort into developing iCal. Windows Calendar is like those Windows accessories that were developed by Microsoft ppl in their spare time. They don’t update it, they don’t have a dedicated team or blog. And of course it isn’t available to 75% ppl using computers running Windows (XP).