| > It’s difficult to maintain basic features in a popular calendar, at least according to the ms exchange team blog: There's a large amount of things that regular people do with calendars every day, that could be automated or managed through better interaction paradigms, and to which those issues don't apply. That's a lot of low hanging fruits, that everyone's leaving to rot. Like: > meeting you set up isn’t necessarily in the same time as it is for me, and then you also invited people, from a whole bunch of other time zones (did you know some time zones are 30 mins off, not a full hour?) 99% of my calendar use involves events happening within days or weeks, and concerning me alone, me and my wife, me and my acquaintances, or me and some random local company. I don't care about timezones for those - they all happen in the same one, with the same DST shift. (The remaining 1%? Timezone shenanigans happen at few distinct points in a year, and everyone knows to be careful around those and communicate out-of-band if needed. So again, not an issue in practice for users like me.) Microsoft is thinking about calendars as tools for employees of multinational corporations. But calendars aren't only useful for managers frequently flying intercontinental; there's a lot of regular folks using them for affairs much more localized in time, space, and social graph. |