No Brainer

Live.com just came out with a new version of their calendar. It resembles the Google Calendar, but looks a little more extensive. After logging into Live.com and going to the new calendar, I tried a few things to see the differences and to see which I prefer.

I first created an event for the day. It works very similar to Google except it automatically adds a time to the event when one isn’t typed in. The Google Calendar doesn’t add a time unless you type the time in. Any event added without a time is automatically added like an All-Day Event. One other difference was in deleting the event. After I deleted the event, the screen took a little longer to refresh than the Google screen.

One new feature Live.com Calendar offers is Social Events. You can create an event and invite others to join in on the fun very similar to Evite.com, but a little easier to work with and the map of course ties right into the invitation since Live.com has it’s own mapping system from Microsoft.

The only option Live.com Calendar is missing that Google Calendar offers is the ability to share the calendar on a blog. Live.com only offers a link for someone to click and view the calendar. Other than that, Live.com Calendar is very nice.

However, for me, because I use the feature Google offers that Live.com doesn’t - availability for blogs - I will continue using Google Calendar. To some it may not be a big deal. But to me, it’s the whole reason I use the Google Calendar so I can show it on one of my sites.

Maybe, after a bunch of users try it out and complain to them, they’ll add that feature. But for now, I’m sticking with Google Calendar, not just because it’s got one more feature, but because it has a little simpler control panel and is a little more straight forward.

I hope you find this article interesting and helpful. If you have time, please leave me a comment. I enjoy feedback. Thanks!