MSN Calendar To Windows Live Calendar Migration Starting Soon

WLCalendarL We read before that this would happen starting March already, but the following announcement appeared on windowslivewire:

It’s almost moving time! We’ve been busy getting Windows Live Calendar ready for when we move all MSN Calendar customers over to the new and improved service on Windows Live.

Over the coming months, we will be moving all existing MSN Calendar customers over to Windows Live Calendar. The move will be gradual, that is, not everyone will see their calendars change on the same day.

So apparently the migration hadn’t started yet. In their article they also outline some features Windows Live Calendar offers over MSN Calendar and let you know that all of your MSN Calendar’s tasks and notes will be migrated into your new Windows Live to-do list. Furthermore they list what you should know for the move: If you only access your MSN Calendar through the web you need not do anything, however if you use Microsoft Office Outlook you will have to make sure you are using the latest version of Outlook Connector (version number 12.0.6414.1000 or greater).

Windows Live Calendar doesn’t support displaying attachments, hence the reminder we posted earlier to save those, or sending reminders to a secondary email address. You will also have to republish or share your calendars again in Windows Live Calendar after the move.

Comments

  • empirestatebuddy

    Microsoft should just fold MSN entirely into Live. There are just too many different web properties for Microsoft… especially now with Bing. Personally, I’d like to see all of them incorporated into Bing… sort of how Google does it–email, news, storage… all in one place.

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/halo2redvsblue/default.aspx halo2redvsblue

    I agree With you Empire

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/lord_5F00_canti86/default.aspx lord_canti86

    Actually, I think MS has the right idea. MSN is for programmed Internet content (news/business/sports/etc.). Windows Live is for communications and social networking and bing is for web search. Three separate entities for three separate types of Internet services.

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/foaf/default.aspx foaf

    Totally agree with Lord Canti, the brand separation is a good thing for Microsoft as they have weak brand equity generally.

    Though I do agree MSN is an ‘old’ brand, it still spells out “content” in peoples minds. Bing is cool now, but I want it to be separate from Window Live incase things change in the future.