{"id":1408,"date":"2007-11-06T22:46:44","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T21:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/06\/windows-live-calendar-beta-up-and-running\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T23:12:11","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T22:12:11","slug":"windows-live-calendar-beta-up-and-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/06\/windows-live-calendar-beta-up-and-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Live Calendar Beta up and running!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>You can check it out at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calendar.live.com\/calendar\/calendar.aspx\">http:\/\/www.calendar.live.com\/calendar\/calendar.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or visit the Windows Live Calendar Information Overview page at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowslive-hotmail.com\/calendar\/\">http:\/\/www.windowslive-hotmail.com\/calendar\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0MSN Calendar as theres currently no option to transfer your events from MSN Calendar to Windows Live Calendar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/11\/live_calendar_1.jpg\" title=\"Windows Live Calendar\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/11\/live_calendar_1_small.jpg\" alt=\"Windows Live Calendar\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve said ok to using\u00a0Windows Live Calendar &#8211; if you&#8217;re a Microsoft Outlook user\u00a0like me &#8211; you&#8217;ll notice that the Windows Live Calendar\u00a0layout 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/11\/live_calendar_2.jpg\" title=\"Windows Live Calendar\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/11\/live_calendar_2_small.jpg\" alt=\"Windows Live Calendar\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some ways to add an event include double clicking on a specific date, single clicking the &#8220;Add&#8221; Icon on a specific date or highlighting a period of time and single clicking single clicking the &#8220;Add&#8221; Icon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/11\/live_calendar_3.jpg\" title=\"Windows Live Calendar\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/11\/live_calendar_3_small.jpg\" alt=\"Windows Live Calendar\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once you have added the event Windows Live Calendar will let you know\u00a0it&#8217;s done so and you will see it appear on the screen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/11\/live_calendar_4.jpg\" title=\"Windows Live Calendar\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/11\/live_calendar_4_small.jpg\" alt=\"Windows Live Calendar\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can now hover your mouse pointer over the event to edit\/delete the even or see what time it finishes\/ends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/11\/live_calendar_5.jpg\" title=\"Windows Live Calendar\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/11\/live_calendar_5_small.jpg\" alt=\"Windows Live Calendar\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Just imported some Calendars (Microsoft Outlook, Facebook Birthdays from Google Calendar) and all works ok! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/11\/live_calendar_6.jpg\" title=\"Windows Live Calendar\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/11\/live_calendar_6_small.jpg\" alt=\"Windows Live Calendar\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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! \ud83d\ude42 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<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/06\/windows-live-calendar-beta-up-and-running\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows Live Calendar Beta up and running!&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}