Because using too many calendars can confuse rather than organize, Google has announced that its Google Calendar will play nice with Microsoft’s Outlook Calendar. Earlier that week, Google announced Google Calendar Sync, a downloadable application that lets users synchronize events with Outlook Calendar. A user can determine knowledge flow, as well as the frequency of the syncing.

The info flow can be two-way, with both calendars syncing to the other, or one way, with either calendar updating the other. Ten minutes is the minimum instance for syncing. When events are sync hing, arrows seem in the Google Calendar icon.

The company said secondary calendars are not being supported, only the primary Google Calendar with the default Outlook Calendar.

‘Annoying to Maintain’

On the Official Google Blog, product manager Shirin Oskooi wrote about using Calendar Sync. He said that, previously, he used Outlook on his desktop computer at home, but “since I wanted to be able to access

my schedule from anywhere, I plus kept a copy of it on Google Calendar.” When traveling, he imported the Google Calendar input into his laptop’s Outlook for offline access.

“This was not only annoying to maintain,” he wrote, but additionally error-prone. Updates on any of his calendars needed him to update all of them by hand.

considering of that chore, Oskooi said he “was probably the most excited person on the team when we started developing it.” He noted that he can now enter an event into his laptop’s Outlook Calendar and Google Calendar Sync updates it on his online Google Calendar as well as on his home desktop.

“All of my calendar views are always up to period,” he said, “and I can choose whichever one I want to use.” Google has noted that a user’s calendar can be synced, whether it’s accessed from a browser, a…

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