Why is Calendar removed?

[Calum Veteran]

Well if they just rename it, when I want to pull up my list of contacts, I still have to open the app and then wait while it locks up trying to download POP3 stuff before I get it to cancel, and then click to Contacts (which comes up as a separate Window: what's the point?).

When I see an app called "Communications" I wouldn't necessarily know that's where my Calendar is. The names Contacts, Mail, Newsgroups, Calendar etc, are pretty self-explanatory.

Maybe an in between solution would be this: In the installer they have, indent these apps under one checkbox called Communications or whatever, with certain sub-items having disabled and selected checkboxes so that you can't install Mail without installing Contacts, or whatever.

Point is, I want to get to each one separately and I have no use for many of them (I don't need an RSS reader in my Contacts app!)

I agreed with "Windows Live Communications" for something which sounds better than "Windows Live Mail" as we have to live with the fact that they bundle up the applications.

I agree with you that they should be separate. It would be easier to access and so stuff with them. Although, that way, I would have to start up a new application each time I want to view my calendar, contacts or feeds (I currently have Windows Live Mail open constantly).

I will also then lose the routine I currently have - when I have some spare time, a few times a day, I will go through all my unread emails and then through all my unread feeds - very quickly.

If Microsoft implemented this, allowing you to keep each application open but minimised (like you can currently do with Windows Live Mail) but it did not clutter up the taskbar (Windows 7) or notification area (other Windows versions) then I will be happy with them separating the applications.

By the way, I am sick of thier ridiculous inconsistnecies! They've released Windows Live Essentials yet they haven't renamed "Windows Live Contacts" inside Windows Live Mail to "Windows Live People" and placed the new icon there. It's ridiculous. There are many other inconsistencies, but Microsoft really need to do something about the mess they create with stupid inconsistencies. It looks bad!

No matter what, you still have to develop for Internet Explorer. You don't just leave browsers out in the cold.

I know this and I will eventually when I have more time (after assignments and exams) and when my website is going to be finally completed. However, I just get annoyed that it looks perfect in other browsers except Internet Explorer (we were instructed to make it compatible with the W3C standards and have it display properly in Firefox).

[Sean2989]

You know what you could do? When you go into Program Files on Vista you will find that Windows Calendar is just a single .exe file. So I went in and copied it and brought it to Windows 7. I haven't had a problem with it since. I have also done that with the Desktop Gadgets in Windows 7 as well. I am unable to use the gadgets with the UAC turned off so I just ported the Vista sidebar.exe file and that works just as well. I hope that help you guys some!