Hpw To Sync Windows Calendar and Windows Mobile 6

[MF]

Hello All,

I need to know how to sync Windows Calendar in Vista with Windows Mobile 6
if at all possible. We have Vista Home Premium in our living room and I would
like the Windows Calendar in Vista to be our central calendar and pop-up
reminder/alert and also be able to automatically sync its tasks and
appointments to WM6 devices connected and setup to sync with it. Any ideas or
hacks for this?

Not sure why Microsoft Vista developer team did not think about this in the
first place.

Thanx.

 

[Ferd Burfel]

Windows Mobile contains what is basically "Outlook Mobile", and AFAIK, it
only syncs natively with Outlook on the PC. The formats for the data are
different. There may or may not be third-party apps that would do it.

Ferd

 

[MF]

Thanx for the response. There is certainly no sense in this on Microsoft's
part. I guess it never occurred to them that users who work with Outlook also
have calendars and appointments on Vista that they will want to combine and
adhere to in our central mobile device. Of course there is a third party app
that does that as I just discovered but why pay more if only a group of
Microsoft developers can think smarter.

 

[Paul Montgomery]

Thanx for the response. There is certainly no sense in this on Microsoft's
part. I guess it never occurred to them that users who work with Outlook also
have calendars and appointments on Vista that they will want to combine and
adhere to in our central mobile device. Of course there is a third party app
that does that as I just discovered but why pay more if only a group of
Microsoft developers can think smarter.

If they tried to think of every little freaking detail that every
freaking bozo - yes, BOZO - wants they'd still be working on the
development of WinXP.

Get the third-party app and go away.

 

[Ferd Burfel]

It's not really an issue of developers being smarter, it's what the software
is intended for. They actually figure that users with Outlook won't use the
Windows Calendar in Vista.

Windows Calendar, Windows Contacts, and Windows Mail (formerly Outlook
Express) are simpler, less-functional, less-feature-rich than the equivalent
functions in Outlook. They are included so that users without Outlook can
have the basic functions of a calendar, address book, and email client right
out of the box (so to speak). Some PC manufacturers include Microsoft
Works, which is a simpler, less-functional, less-feature-rich suite of
programs, compared to say Microsoft Office or even WordPerfect Office.
Works has it's own calendar, but uses Windows Contacts.

It comes down to trying to provide some basic tools that many users find
adequate for their tasks. You obviously need more than what they provide,
and I think that even if you could sync with these basic tools, you would
soon outgrow them and need the full-featured products.

And yes, if they put too many features into Vista, then no one would be
buying any office suites.:~)

There may be a niche for a new software package created by MS's including a
calendar in Vista. Maybe even a new class of portable device for families,
or syncing with cell phones. Some of that is already possible. My RAZR
uses Motorola Phone Tools to sync with Outlook's calendar and address book,
or maintain separate ones. Adding the ability to sync to Vista's calendar
and contacts is just another step.

Interesting.

Ferd

 

[MF]

Ferd, thanx for your reasonable/sensible response as opposed to one who fels
he needs to rant without understanding the basic reason for a newsgroup is to
address every and all inquiries without assuming any is irrelevant, stupid,
or otherwise as we all have different needs to meet and varying resources to
afford them. However, as an entrepreneur myself, I sincerely do not expect MS
to include all Outlook/Office features in Vista (this will obviously not make
any business sense) I just expected to see just a checkbox for say "Sync
Windows Calendar to Windows Mobile Device". I have office licenses so I might
install Outlook just for the Calendar feature (which defeats the presence of
the inbuilt Windows Calendar).

 

[Ferd Burfel]

You're very welcome regarding the sensible responses.

As for "defeat[ing] the purpose of the inbuilt Windows Calendar", think of
it the same way you would Wordpad vs. Word. Wordpad is capable of writing
letters, and doing some pretty decent formatting, but Word has many more
features.

I actually knew someone that did a newsletter in Windows Write. <shudder>

Ferd