I think that it's just crazy that Outlook 2003 Professional Edition does not
support subscribing to remote iCalendar (.ics) files. This seemingly simple
feature is preventing Windows users at our School of Medicine from being able
to subscribe to lecture calendars, student event calendars and syncing this
information with their portable devices. Importing .ics files is simply not
an acceptable option because of the frequency of change in the calendars.

I've done some reading, and aparently this is a feature of "Windows
Calendar" which is due to appear along with Windows Vista, when ever that is
released; however, I'm scared about the slow adoption rates.

Please, spend the development time in a service pack release of Office and
include this simple feature so Windows users can enjoy the same calendaring
abilities that Mac OS X users enjoy with Apple's (free) iCal application.

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it will not be added to outlook 2003 in a service pack - they are already at
sp2 and the next version is in development, set to release in approx 9
months. It does support calendar subscriptions. I'm not aware of any addins
that support it, however that is the only way it will be added to current
versions of outlook.

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"matt.simpson" wrote in message
...
I think that it's just crazy that Outlook 2003 Professional Edition does
not
support subscribing to remote iCalendar (.ics) files. This seemingly
simple
feature is preventing Windows users at our School of Medicine from being
able
to subscribe to lecture calendars, student event calendars and syncing
this
information with their portable devices. Importing .ics files is simply
not
an acceptable option because of the frequency of change in the calendars.

I've done some reading, and aparently this is a feature of "Windows
Calendar" which is due to appear along with Windows Vista, when ever that
is
released; however, I'm scared about the slow adoption rates.

Please, spend the development time in a service pack release of Office and
include this simple feature so Windows users can enjoy the same
calendaring
abilities that Mac OS X users enjoy with Apple's (free) iCal application.

----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm....calendari ng