Vista (Ultimate) has what should be a very nice built in feature. It’s a full calendar system that not only (is supposed to) keeps track of your schedules, but it can also pull in data from online calendars. So if you want your Google Calendar data on your desktop, you can do that.

At least you should be able to do that. That feature has never worked for me; in fact, adding an online calendar causes Vista’s calendar to crash each time that Vista boots. However, that’s not specifically what I’m writing about today.

This is:

You’ll notice that the scheduled event is over due by 15 hours!

This occures routinely with Vista’s calendar. Not only does it consistantly crash at boot when online calendars are added, but it has stopped notifying me of appointments on the day that they occur. This notification feature worked fine at first, but it ceased functioning at some point and I didn’t do a thing to it.

Yet it’s nice (read: annoying) enough to pop up when Vista boots and then lets me know that the appointment is 15 hours over due. Thankfully the “appointment” in this case is the TV shows that I watch on Thursday evenings, so it’s not a critical event.

I definitely wouldn’t ever rely on Vista’s calendar to remind me of something critical. Not if I wanted to actually get it done.

If your secretary came in every morning and told you about all of the previous day’s appointments that you missed, do you think that you would keep said secretary?

Vista Calendar, you’re fired.

~Steph

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