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Sometime over the weekend I noticed in status bar area in Outlook 2007 an
exclamation point. I clicked on it for a detailed report and it indicated
there was an error connecting to Windows Live Calendar. I thought it was some
type of server error that would soon clear up. Well it never did. So I
started investigating today and stumbled across this in Outlook Help:
"Calendar synchronization with Outlook is a paid subscription-only feature.
When you subscribe to Windows Live Hotmail, you get to synchronize notes and
tasks as well as your calendar. If you are using the Outlook Connector with a
free Windows Live Hotmail account, you will see an alert on the Outlook
Connector toolbar."
Is this something new? I've had my free Live Hotmail account since 12/08 and
Office 2007 with Outlook Connector since 02/09 and have been able to synch
calendars just fine until this past weekend. The subscription is only 19.95
per year. I'm considering getting it just to make that dreaded exclamation
point go away! Perhaps that's what Microsoft had in mind--to make it so
annoying that we felt compelled to pay to get rid of it.
Thanks,
David
exclamation point. I clicked on it for a detailed report and it indicated
there was an error connecting to Windows Live Calendar. I thought it was some
type of server error that would soon clear up. Well it never did. So I
started investigating today and stumbled across this in Outlook Help:
"Calendar synchronization with Outlook is a paid subscription-only feature.
When you subscribe to Windows Live Hotmail, you get to synchronize notes and
tasks as well as your calendar. If you are using the Outlook Connector with a
free Windows Live Hotmail account, you will see an alert on the Outlook
Connector toolbar."
Is this something new? I've had my free Live Hotmail account since 12/08 and
Office 2007 with Outlook Connector since 02/09 and have been able to synch
calendars just fine until this past weekend. The subscription is only 19.95
per year. I'm considering getting it just to make that dreaded exclamation
point go away! Perhaps that's what Microsoft had in mind--to make it so
annoying that we felt compelled to pay to get rid of it.
Thanks,
David