Microsoft posts workaround to bring Google events to Calendar app
Last week's update of Microsoft's Calendar, Mail and People apps on Windows 8 removed a synchronization feature that enabled users of the operating system to sync Calendar data with Google Calendar events. The change, inevitable as Google decided to disable Exchange ActiveSync support, came earlier than expected as Google extended the deadline to July 2013. What is clear though is that Windows 8 customers were in a predicament considering that they were no longer able to sync their events.
Microsoft published a support file yesterday that provides users who want to sync Google Calendar events with the Calendar app in Windows 8 with a way to do so. Let me show you what you need to do to sync the calendars again.
- Open Google Calendar in your web browser of choice and sign in if you have not done so already.
- Locate the calendar you want synced with the Calendar app, move the mouse over it and click on the down arrow icon that appears. Select Calendar Settings from the context menu.
- Click on the ICAL button under Private Address and save the ics file that is created to your local system.
- Head over to outlook.com and sign in to the site.
- If you do not have an Outlook calendar yet click on subscribe and then Import from an ICS file.
- If you already have a calendar, select Import and select whether you want to import the information into an existing calendar or a new one.
- Select the ICS file that you have saved on the Google Calendar website. Repeat the step if you have saved multiple calendars on Google.
- The new data should appear in the Windows 8 Calendar app if you have already connected outlook.com to it.
- If you have not done so, open the Charms menu with Windows-C or move the mouse button to the upper or lower right screen corner, and select Settings from the menu that opens up.
- Select Accounts and use the add an account option to add outlook.com to the calendar.
The workaround does not work particularly well though and I'd like to provide you with a working alternative that you may find more suitable.
- Open the Windows Live Calendar website, select Import from the menu, and switch to subscribe on the next page.
- Paste the private calendar url into the form, add a name and click subscribe.
Are these articles AI generated?
Now the duplicates are more obvious.
This is below AI generated crap. It is copy of Microsoft Help website article without any relevant supporting text. Anyway you can find this information on many pages.
Yes, but why post the exact same article under a different title twice on the same day (19 march 2023), by two different writers?
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If it’s Microsoft, don’t buy it.
Better brands at better prices elsewhere.
All new articles have zero count comments. :S
WTF? So, If I add one photo to 5 albums, will it count 5x on my storage?
It does not make any sense… on google photos, we can add photo to multiple albums, and it does not generate any additional space usage
I have O365 until end of this year, mostly for onedrive and probably will jump into google one
Photo storage must be kept free because customers chose gadgets just for photos and photos only.
What a nonsense. Does it mean that albums are de facto folders with copies of our pictures?
Sounds exactly like the poor coding Microsoft is known for in non-critical areas i.e. non Windows Core/Office Core.
I imagine a manager gave an employee the task to create the album feature with hardly any time so they just copied the folder feature with some cosmetic changes.
And now that they discovered what poor management results in do they go back and do the album feature properly?
Nope, just charge the customer twice.
Sounds like a go-getter that needs to be promoted for increasing sales and managing underlings “efficiently”, said the next layer of middle management.
When will those comments get fixed? Was every editor here replaced by AI and no one even works on this site?
Instead of a software company, Microsoft is now a fraud company.
For me this is proof that Microsoft has a back-door option into all accounts in their cloud.
quote “…… as the MSA key allowed the hacker group access to virtually any cloud account at Microsoft…..”
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so this MSA key which is available to MS officers can give access to all accounts in MS cloud.This is the backdoor that MS has into the cloud accounts. Lucky I never got any relevant files of mine in their (MS) cloud.
>”Now You: what is your theory?”
That someone handed an employee a briefcase full of cash and the employee allowed them access to all their accounts and systems.
Anything that requires 5-10 different coincidences to happen is highly unlikely. Occam’s razor.
Good reason to never login to your precious machine with a Microsoft a/c a.k.a. as the cloud.
The GAFAM are always very careless about our software automatically sending to them telemetry and crash dumps in our backs. It’s a reminder not to send them anything when it’s possible to opt out, and not to opt in, considering what they may contain. And there is irony in this carelessness biting them back, even if in that case they show that they are much more cautious when it’s their own data that is at stake.