There is support for importing from Microsoft Outlook, although recurring appointments will be imported as standalone items. (This is not so much a limitation of Google Calendar as how Outlook exports such appointments.) However, because Outlook does not currently support an open calendar standard, there is no way to fully integrate the two.
The calendar application you consider your primary is the one that is compatible with what most of those you interact with use. In most corporate environments, this is Outlook. Such users may elect to use Google Calendar for personal use, but having multiple calendars can become cumbersome and is not conducive to maximum organization.
The solution? Free your data. As has been discussed in the web 2.0 world, the increasing prominence of APIs is shifting the paradigm of the traditional user application model, and this will eventually apply to calendaring as well. Eventually, your calendar data will exist independently of the calendar interface, allowing you to interchange interfaces at will. This will also allow for full interoperability for all users, allowing anyone to exchange invitations or share other scheduling data.
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So Google Calendar was released yesterday (see the press release and blog post). And it's pretty good. But what's really interesting is the massive exposure it's gotten in the blogoshperic blogoverse of blogdom. It's different kind of viral marketing f... [Read More]
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