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Windows Live Calendar for Mobile coming in Wave 4

By on April 6, 2010 2:15 PM
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When Windows Live Wave 3 was first released with a suite of mobile services, many people complained the lack of Calendar support for the mobile devices, as Windows Live Calendar for Mobile only supported SMS-based services in Wave 3, and Microsoft has never developed a Client-based nor Web-based mobile Calendar solution. Despite this, calendar is probably the most used application on mobile devices, as people often prefer to check their schedules and meetings on-the-go.

Well it seems the wait is over because Microsoft has listened, and in January we gave you clues that Windows Live Calendar for Mobile is in fact coming in Wave 4. Today we’re able to show you for the first time what it will look like:

Home Home Expanded Calendar Options
Calendar Home Calendar Home Expanded Calendar Options
Week View Month View Go To Date
Calendar Week Calendar Month Calendar Go To Date
View Event Add/Edit Event  
Calendar View Event Calendar Add Event  
As you can see, Calendar is touch-capable, meaning you can view this on your iPhone, HD2, as well as any other touch-capable phones. However we weren’t able to confirm whether there will be a non-touch version available as well. Either way, it is definitely looking good and will prove to be useful for many! What do you think?
 
Reminder: As always, remember this is a pre-release screenshot and is currently in development, so anything could be changed between now and final release.
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  • http://twitter.com/peterpulmonary1 peter terry

    halleluia
    finally!
    this shows msft is deliberately appealing to consumer market now

  • codenamesantosh

    These days they were more focussing on the Consumers
    as does their Intrest in the Mobile Phone 7 Series Shows that..

  • http://gregsedwards.wordpress.com Greg Edwards

    Hallelujah and glory be to the Flying Spaghetti Monster! Finally! From the screen shots, this looks to be a part of the mobile WL site. It leaves one wondering about the WL4WM app, which will have to be completely rewritten for Windows Phone 7, I suppose. Can we expect a rich WL Calendar client to be included in that tool?

    And finally, if I’m using a Windows Mobile or Windows Phone 7 device, shouldn’t there be an option to just integrate my Windows Live Calendar(s) with the default calendar on the device, along with my Exchange Calendar, Google Calendar, and everything else I use? I don’t want to have to continually dig into some specialized app to see my upcoming appointments. I’d much rather have them greet me on the home screen.

    • Candid Calum

      Do people really use both Windows Live Calendar and Google Calendar? o.O I can understand using an Exchange calendar, but Outlook allows you to use both an Exchange and Windows Live calendar in the same application.

      I can’t imagine Windows Phone 7 will come with a seperate built-in calendar, if Outlook is to be included.

  • JohnCz

    My guess is this is for WM 6.x users. If I’m not mistaken the Metro UI calendar app built into WMP7 supports Windows Live Calendar.

  • http://twitter.com/Insomniac86 Aaron Harvey

    @gregsedwards have you been asleep good sir? haha, WM7 has built in full integration for pretty much all Windows Live services. Including Calendar, contacts and skydrive.

    • jbeaul

      @Aaron – I’d be really excited to learn where you’ve found mobile WL calendar offerings for non-Windows phones. It’s notably absent from all mobile entry points I can find including the primary http://www.windowsliveformobile.com .

  • jntowers

    Will there ever be a pure Windows Live iPhone app? mBox mail is great for mail/contacts, but adding calendar support to that would be ideal… kind of like a Windows Live Mail client for the iPhone. I would think, given how MS and Apple seem to be getting along better as of late, this would be doable…

  • JSYOUNG571

    WHEW! Here we are 3 to 4 years later and Windows Live finally decides that a calendar is important after all.The calendar looks like it is on the Windows Live internet version. Is the calendar going to be part of the download version of Windows Live Mobile Application also? If not I really don’t have use for it.

  • http://twitter.com/peterpulmonary1 peter terry

    i would guess this will be available for the pink series.
    that way that demographic starts using wl.

  • Fleiu

    Nice! Too bad I already moved to Google Calendar since they’ve had a mobile version for years now.

  • Cal Croucher

    That’s wonderful new but for me it has come too late. I have been writing (complaining) to Microsoft forever about the missing mobile calendar and finally had to break down and switch to a Droid phone ad Google mail so I could get all my contacts, mail and CALENDAR synched up to my deskop and web client. It’s a shame Microsoft is just way to slow because I have tried to be faithful user for many years but they are just to frustrating in so many way.

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