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Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List

Posted Sep 19 2008, 06:06 AM by Sunshine with 32 comment(s)

The Windows Live Calendar upgrade announced here has now completed. It now has a new look and the thing that one notices right away is that it now has the Wave 3 header. Wave 3 header? Yea the one with themes!

WLCthemes

Hmm wonder why they call it scenes in Messenger…

So themes, but what else? New features? Yes, Windows Live Calendar now has a  To Do List!

WLCtodoAddtodo 

If you click on None in the fields behind Due Date you will be presented with a Calendar in one and a timetable in the other. You can set the priority too, choices are High, Normal and Low.

 WLCtodo5

And there’s my To Do list. Pretty cool!

If you have IE8 beta 2, you may want to set it to compatibility view for Windows Live Calendar. I’ve noticed a few problems in standard mode myself, the most notable below.

What it should look like - IE8b2 compatibility mode:

WLCIE8compatmode

What it looks like when not in compatibility mode:

 WLC-IE8firstloadNonCompatM

As you can see it’s all cramped up and the birthdays now changed into a link saying “1 more”. But that’s not all! Go and scroll, you’ll see the Birthdays “disappear”, well from where they should be…this is the result after scrolling a bit:

WLCafterscrollNoncompatIE8Birthd

The birthdays have moved to the first square in the week they should be in, all mashed up at that…can’t tell what it is till you hover over it :(

Did you know: you can manage your calendars with Windows Live Mail

 

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shrenik wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Fri, Sep 19 2008 6:23 AM

Do the reminders/alerts of the old calnder automatically get imported? i remember last time when i tried upgrading to new calendar (the version before wave 3), it alerted me that none of my previous alerts would be imported...and then i had to stick to the old calendar :-(

Ogden2k wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Fri, Sep 19 2008 6:41 AM

The new look is great, can't wait to see what Hotmail looks like.

A few things:

* Is the next upgrade to WLM client going to show the times in month view (Hope so)

* Still cannot subscribe to my webcal:// on calendars.office

* Will the to do list be in the client?

BV2312 wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Fri, Sep 19 2008 6:42 AM

I think you have to update it manual or use if your a MSN Premium customer then use Outlook Connector for Outlook.  This will download you calendar from MSN Calendar and upload it to WL Calendar.

I had some dates on MSN Calendar but i did transfer them manually by re-entering them on WL Calendar.  I know it can be a long process but worth it.

Gilly wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Fri, Sep 19 2008 6:58 AM

It was fine for me and I am using IE8 Beta 2

Hansjuh wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Fri, Sep 19 2008 7:43 AM

Is there any annouchement about the release date of Live Mail ?

ScottIsAFool wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Fri, Sep 19 2008 7:54 AM

Yeah, I didn't get any issue with IE8 either when I tried it earlier.

damaster wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Fri, Sep 19 2008 8:04 AM

About browser compatibility, it finally loads in Safari, but the result is similar to what you posted for IE8 normal mode....with some "occasional" times when it does show normally.

Contz wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Fri, Sep 19 2008 8:06 AM

Something that makes me crazy is that It's IMPOSSIBLE to send a schedule to anyone... :(

CalumJR wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Fri, Sep 19 2008 8:18 AM

I don't like the advert above the banner like that.

Seems  odd. I'll have to try it out first though before I can judge.

Meikle wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Fri, Sep 19 2008 9:13 AM

They need to get rid of the banner for hotmail plus subscribers.

Is there any way to get rid of the Birthdays Calendar, it is pointless for me since I have all my birthdays in a seperate calendar, and it includes people not in my contacts.

Brian in WV wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Fri, Sep 19 2008 11:26 AM

As usual, Microsoft's software + services strategy for Windows has me confused.  Does Microsoft plan on integrating Windows Live Calendar with the Windows client app that was introduced with Vista? Is the Calendar client app going to become part of the the Live applications suite (following in the footsteps of Mail and now MovieMaker) before the release of Windows 7?  Is the calender client app going to cease to exist, with it's functionality fully shifted to Windows Live Mail?

Any info/guesses?

BuciboLebo wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Fri, Sep 19 2008 11:45 AM

More, more, more please.

Skydrive, Hotmail, Photos. Bring it on.

Alasdair wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Fri, Sep 19 2008 12:06 PM

@Brian: I doubt MS are going to integrate windows live with Vista before Windows 7.

From what I've read and heard Windows 7 won't have any of the trivial applications like Windows Mail or Calendar and it will only have a link to the Windows Live.

@Meikle: I really hope they do. The only reason I pay my subscription is to get rid of that banner!

@anyone: does anyone know if MS have an intentions of Scene/Theme persistence accross all the WL products?

technogran wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Fri, Sep 19 2008 2:03 PM

Well that's strange. I haven't received the update. The only thing that has been updated in mine this morning was a UK  Holidays Calendar was added, but not the new header or the 'To do' list!  I like to have a to do list as I tend to use that more than any other feature of a calendar. Hmm, wonder why we all haven't got the update?

BV2312 wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Fri, Sep 19 2008 2:10 PM

@technogran try deleting your temp internet files and cookies

technogran wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Fri, Sep 19 2008 2:13 PM

Sorry everyone, I have just realised that you are all referring to the online one and not the one down on my desktop inside WLM or are you? Can you let me know as the one actually inside WLM looks nothing like the one online!

Khristopher wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Fri, Sep 19 2008 2:57 PM

They've done a really great job with this! I'm very impressed.

The only thing I don't like is the ugly ad banner at the top. It ruins the look of it.

I hope they plan on integrating this into the Hotmail page when it's out of beta!

rieuwa wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Fri, Sep 19 2008 3:05 PM

I like it.  If the new Hotmail is this speedy, I will be very pleased!

I don't like the ad banner positioning though.. seems like the page layout designer kinda forgot about it...

Chris wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Fri, Sep 19 2008 5:11 PM

@Alasdair, themes/scenes will eventually be persistent across Windows Live yes.

@technogran, yes we're talking about the online calendar.

CalumJR wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Fri, Sep 19 2008 6:56 PM

I am confused, there doesn't seem to be an option to set a colour (such as red like Windows Live Messenger) :S only stupid themes :S

Please can you tell us if we will be able to set colours (e.g. red) which work with the flair (or even ones that don't)?

I like to keep my software & services consistent tbh...

Chris wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Fri, Sep 19 2008 8:21 PM

@Calum-r: In the Messenger personalisation options, select "use the default screen" and then select "Use another colour" at the bottom. That'll give you a coloured flair, but only blue looks good at the moment - all the other colours bleach the white out too much.

BTNH Fan wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Fri, Sep 19 2008 8:58 PM

The to do list is a great addition, but when will they add a to do list to the windows live mail? it only lets you add events.

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Chris wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Sat, Sep 20 2008 8:35 AM

Guys they only just gave us calendar support, lets not expect too much straight away ;)

BV2312 wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Sat, Sep 20 2008 12:42 PM

@Chris LOL!!!

damaster wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Sun, Sep 21 2008 7:07 PM

I really don't like the ad banner up the top us well - ruins the theme I'd say. It'd be better if they placed it vertically along the right edge.

Sunshine wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Mon, Sep 22 2008 8:33 AM

@Alasdair, in addition to what Chris already answered, there is one place where you can already see this working:

Go to Live Calendar Beta and change the theme in the header, then go to http://download.live.com/ and notice it using the same theme you set in WL Calendar :D

someone wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Gets New Wave 3 Look And To Do List
on Thu, Sep 25 2008 4:43 AM

Why is the online calendar more colorful and more full-featured than the desktop calendar in Live Mail?

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