I want to have one online account for my mail, contact and calendaring needs. The 3 accounts i am looking at are Gmail, Outlook.com or iCloud.
I have many devices. Mulitple PCs, a couple Macs, iPhone, Lumia 1020, Nexus 7.
Using the built in apps of Windows 8, OS X and Andriod, I can't get one account to work on all platforms. I am really tempted to build my own exchange server with my own domain and use that because that is the only thing I can find that works on all platforms.
Is there anyone else that has come across this issue? OH, the one gotcha on this, I can NOT use Outlook on the PC and Mac. I use Outlook strictly for work. So for my personal mail I use Windows Mail or the Mac Mail app.
I have done some of the work arounds but they have limitations such as being read only copies when you subscribe to a google calendar from an Outlook.com account for example. Anyway, I blabbed on long enough, i am sure I am not the onlyone having this issue.
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I want to have one online account for my mail, contact and calendaring needs. The 3 accounts i am looking at are Gmail, Outlook.com or iCloud.
I have many devices. Mulitple PCs, a couple Macs, iPhone, Lumia 1020, Nexus 7.
Using the built in apps of Windows 8, OS X and Andriod, I can't get one account to work on all platforms. I am really tempted to build my own exchange server with my own domain and use that because that is the only thing I can find that works on all platforms.
Is there anyone else that has come across this issue? OH, the one gotcha on this, I can NOT use Outlook on the PC and Mac. I use Outlook strictly for work. So for my personal mail I use Windows Mail or the Mac Mail app.
I have done some of the work arounds but they have limitations such as being read only copies when you subscribe to a google calendar from an Outlook.com account for example. Anyway, I blabbed on long enough, i am sure I am not the onlyone having this issue.
Thanks!
Mark
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