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For none premium prespective there still advertising as I now have it (thanks partly to my...
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I have a hotmail premium account, and now when I go in my calendar I don't see banner advertising...
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any news about new features???? i can't wait................... :-)
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Hovewer, I think about mobile calendar sync, that they will be release new windows live mobile...
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Windows Live Calendar Planned Downtime on Tuesday, January 13

Posted Jan 12 2009, 02:21 PM by Sunshine with 14 comment(s)

Tomorrow the Windows Live Calendar service will be down for a few hours:

Windows Live Calendar Planned Downtime on Tuesday, January 13

Our team is about to release more cool features to the Windows Live Calendar service. In preparation for this upgrade, we expect 4-5 hours of downtime starting on Tuesday, January 13 at 11 AM Pacific time. You should see the new functionality by Thursday, January 15.

Stay tuned for more news about the great new functionality.

Your friends at Windows Live Calendar

More features! What will those be? We sure will stay tuned and update you as soon as we know more.

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gregsedwards wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Planned Downtime on Tuesday, January 13
on Mon, Jan 12 2009 2:36 PM

Planned downtime? That's better than it crashing, for a change. :)

joiseystud wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Planned Downtime on Tuesday, January 13
on Mon, Jan 12 2009 2:52 PM

Why can't they schedule this type of thing for midnight to reduce the impact?  11AM?   Thats just lazy!

Will be nice to have new features though.

JSYOUNG571 wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Planned Downtime on Tuesday, January 13
on Mon, Jan 12 2009 5:51 PM

I hope that they remove the stupid ad that is taking up a quarter of the calendar space. It's a shame that I pay for an Windows Live Hotmail Plus account and I still see an ad in my calendar. Also I hope they enable the feature that is at the bottom of every calendar you check that sends you a daily email of your calendar agenda.Google was the original creator of it and Windows Live Calendar added to their calendar as well,but it never worked while in beta.

Jamie wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Planned Downtime on Tuesday, January 13
on Mon, Jan 12 2009 5:57 PM

"'why can't they schedule this type of thing at midnight" - i like these statements but if they were to then 12am where? one persons midnight is another persons daylight or peak use *LOL* - someone will get disturbed and Microsoft like anyone will not prefer to work during the night.

I hoping fthat we get finally 'notes' (something that is in Outlook and old MSN hotmail that is not currently here. To Do is basically Outlook/MSN Hotmail Calendar tasks

joiseystud wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Planned Downtime on Tuesday, January 13
on Mon, Jan 12 2009 8:21 PM

Believe me I am sure the midnight Pacific time is the lightest load time... its 3AM on the East coast, 8AM in England...  11AM PST is not a good time for anyone... except maybe New Zealand and the Microsoft Calendar team strolling in at 9:30AM ;-P.

GoodThings2Life wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Planned Downtime on Tuesday, January 13
on Mon, Jan 12 2009 9:10 PM

I hope that the new features involve a new Mobile client that allows calendar sync! :)

sp1der wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Planned Downtime on Tuesday, January 13
on Tue, Jan 13 2009 4:17 AM

I hope that new features involve:

- notes sync

- task synk

- mobile sync

www.sysadmin.it

damaster wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Planned Downtime on Tuesday, January 13
on Tue, Jan 13 2009 4:41 AM

"'why can't they schedule this type of thing at midnight"

it is 3am midnight in China - where I believe some of the Calendar team are based in. I could be wrong though...

emiliano84 wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Planned Downtime on Tuesday, January 13
on Tue, Jan 13 2009 5:35 AM

i quote sp1der and i add a better sync and organization of birthdays and calendars!!!

sp1der wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Planned Downtime on Tuesday, January 13
on Tue, Jan 13 2009 5:55 AM

Hovewer, I think about mobile calendar sync, that they will be release new windows live mobile... :-(

sp1der wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Planned Downtime on Tuesday, January 13
on Wed, Jan 14 2009 9:32 AM

any news about new features????

i can't wait................... :-)

sp1der wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Planned Downtime on Tuesday, January 13
on Wed, Jan 14 2009 4:14 PM

I have a hotmail premium account, and now when I go in my calendar I don't see banner advertising!!!!!!

Other news?

Jamie wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Planned Downtime on Tuesday, January 13
on Wed, Jan 14 2009 5:45 PM

For none premium prespective there still advertising as I now have it (thanks partly to my DNS being opendns)

the most obvious thing when going to it is that the advertisement has moved to the discussed right sided 'tower' ad and looks like sp1der has no ads so having premium account you do not get ads on calendar.

removal of beta 'tag'

damaster wrote re: Windows Live Calendar Planned Downtime on Tuesday, January 13
on Wed, Jan 14 2009 6:23 PM

All three of my accounts are non-premium and I am not seeing ads in Windows Live Calendar anymore.

Noticeable changes include:

- Removal of ads

- Removal of "beta" tag

- Show more/Show less function (if you click "Show more", each cell displays all the events on that day, but this disables the scolling functionality in Month mode which allowed you to scroll to the next month)

- Allow users to add "Charms" or little icons to their events

- Reorganisation of the menu bar (particularly the "New" button)

- Header updated to have consistent links with other Wave 3 services

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