Actually, Outlook 2000 does already support iCalendar. If you use Outlook, you can check this out in a few ways: - from the File menu, choose Import and Export, you can choose to import calendar data from iCalendar format - Open up an appointment, from the Action menu, you can choose to "forward as iCalendar" - Recieve an iCalendar appointment, and it can get saved with the right start-time, end-time, etc.
So there is a raw beginning of interoperability there -- invitations across S/W borders. Maybe next a standard way of querying somebody's freebusy time?
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Actually, Outlook 2000 does already support iCalendar. If you use Outlook, you can check this out in a few ways:
- from the File menu, choose Import and Export, you can choose to import calendar data from iCalendar format
- Open up an appointment, from the Action menu, you can choose to "forward as iCalendar"
- Recieve an iCalendar appointment, and it can get saved with the right start-time, end-time, etc.
So there is a raw beginning of interoperability there -- invitations across S/W borders. Maybe next a standard way of querying somebody's freebusy time?
Disclaimer: I work for MS.