Great news Windows Live Calendar Beta is now up and running and hopefully this time it will be permanent, unlike the other day when they were just testing! 🙂

You can check it out at: http://www.calendar.live.com/calendar/calendar.aspx

Or visit the Windows Live Calendar Information Overview page at http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/calendar/

On opening up Windows Live Calendar for the first time you will be asked whether you wish to use the all great Windows Live Calendar or carry on using your original MSN Calendar as theres currently no option to transfer your events from MSN Calendar to Windows Live Calendar.

Once you’ve said ok to using Windows Live Calendar – if you’re a Microsoft Outlook user like me – you’ll notice that the Windows Live Calendar layout is in someways very similar to Microsoft Outlook 2007. With the Day, Week and Month Tabs. However it could be said that the Agenda Tab is a little like the Google Calendar Tab in Google Calendar Beta.

Some ways to add an event include double clicking on a specific date, single clicking the “Add” Icon on a specific date or highlighting a period of time and single clicking single clicking the “Add” Icon.

Once you have added the event Windows Live Calendar will let you know it’s done so and you will see it appear on the screen.

You can now hover your mouse pointer over the event to edit/delete the even or see what time it finishes/ends.

Update: Just imported some Calendars (Microsoft Outlook, Facebook Birthdays from Google Calendar) and all works ok! 🙂