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It can automate the process of entering repeating events, such as

weekly staff meetings or gym workouts.

Calendar can give you a gentle nudge (with a sound and a
message) when an important appointment is approaching.

It can subscribe to online calendars from Outlook, Hotmail, or
even your company’s Exchange calendar, so you have all your

life’s agendas in one place.

Note
There may already be stuff on your calendar the first time you open it—if, elsewhere in Windows,
you’ve already entered account information for an online account. For example, if you’ve entered
your Facebook details, then all your friends’ birthdays appear in Calendar automatically. You can,
of course, turn off one account or another; read on.

That said, Calendar is among the simplest, most bare-bones calendar
programs ever written. At least it won’t overwhelm you.

Working with Views

When you open Calendar, your first order of business is to point it to your
existing online calendars: your corporate calendar (Exchange), one of

Microsoft’s various free services (Outlook.com, Live.com, Hotmail, MSN),
Google’s (Gmail), or even Apple’s (iCloud). (Yes, Apple’s. That sound you
hear is hell freezing over.)

If you don’t already have one of these accounts, you can create a free
Microsoft account on the spot. Then you see something like Figure 8-6.
Using the toolbar at top, you can switch among these views:

Day looks exactly like a day-at-a-time desk calendar. Scroll up and
down to see the rest of the day.