Windows 8 deep dive: Get to know the Mail and Calendar apps

November 15, 2012

Email and calendar apps may not be much fun, but they're essential if you intend to live on the grid, interacting with other human beings. Enter Microsoft's new Windows 8 Mail and Calendar apps, each of which takes a prominent position on the new Start screen. Of course, plenty of competitors offer basic email and calendar functionality, so if Microsoft is going to enter this arena, it had better give users some real innovation. Calendar syncs with Hotmail, Outlook, and Google accounts to bring together all your sundry events on one large screen for easy viewing. Mail taps into Hotmail, Outlook, Google, AOL, Yahoo, and your own personal IMAP and POP accounts; the app also aggregates all your messages from these various accounts on a single screen. Pretty standard stuff, right? Actually, no: Email and calendar apps are never as simple as they seem. That's why some are awesome, and others downright stink. What Calendar does well When your busy days all seem to run together, keeping everything straight can be tough. And the situation gets even worse if you use multiple accounts with multiple calendars to eyeball meetings, personal events, and those pesky birthdays that keep sneaking up on you. How are you supposed to separate all of your business engagements scheduled on Google from your personal commitments scheduled on Outlook? To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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