The recipient of the invitation will be redirected to a virtual sheet, where he can see how many people are planned, and give his answer (it is not necessary to have a Live account).Īs a result, we can say that in the face of Windows Live Calendar, the former dominant of the sector of online calendars Google Calendar is no longer so. indicate the place of the meeting and write an invitation in the WYSIWYG editor! Moreover, you can choose a festive template for your letter depending on the type of event as well. These are the usual calendar events that are sent to the guests by email. The highlight of Windows Live Calendar is the so-called social events.

choice of the beginning of the working day and days off.

the task is the first day of the week Monday.

selection of 24-hour time display format.

To import existing calendars, ICS files are used, which are able to deliver all calendar programs and services, but be prepared to lose cyclic events with such an import.Īs for the regional settings, they provide everything for the Russian-speaking user to be most comfortable:

full access for viewing to any Internet user, the calendar is indexed search engines(it is interesting that here you can allow viewing either your events, or only busy and free time).

available to everyone to whom you send a specially generated link - available only for viewing and allows viewing without an account Windows entries Live (for displaying the calendar outside of the Windows Live Calendar service, export to HTML, ICS and XML formats is provided).

available to friends and family for viewing and editing that you have designated from Windows Live users (for each user, Windows Live user, you can choose a personal level of access to the calendar - viewing events, viewing only free / busy time, viewing / changing / deleting events or appoint a co-owner of the calendar with full rights to change and delete it).

As in the case of Google Calendar, you can differentiate access to calendars according to the following rules:

You can display all calendars at once in the time field or only the ones you have selected. By the way, the mode of displaying one day, week, month and the list of events (Agenda) is supported.Īs before, several calendars are supported, which can have a name and color. Let me remind you that earlier you had to click on the button for creating an event and enter the time and date of the event manually. Just select a few days or hours and immediately create an event. The main novelty for me, as a user, is that now events on the open calendar can be created by selection with the mouse, as it was in Google Calendar for a long time.

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