This week we held an internal product fair at the Microsoft Silicon Valley campus. Lots of cool stuff happening in different product groups! The number one question we had from our own employees to our team at the Windows Live Calendar booth, was “Cool, but does it sync with Microsoft Office Outlook?” We’re happy to let our internal employees and, more importantly, the general public know that a refresh of the Outlook Connector has been released as a public beta. And….drumroll….it now supports the Windows Live Calendar beta! Of course, it still syncs with Windows Live Hotmail & Contacts, as well.

For the calendar, you can see all of your Microsoft Office Outlook calendars and Windows Live Calendars together in one place. You can sync them and view them all within Outlook 2003 and see them overlaid in Outlook 2007. Online or offline you can always see your calendar data. It’s a great way to see all of your work, private, shared AND public calendars together in one place.

If you are a MSN Premium user of the 12.0 Outlook Connector, your current calendar data will be moved to Window Live Calendar via the Connector as long as you use the same profile.

Give it a spin by downloading it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9A2279B1-DF0A-46E1-AA93-7D4870871ECF&displaylang=en . The Outlook Connector is available at no charge!

And, if you aren’t currently using Windows Live Calendar, perhaps this is the feature that will make it sing for you. Sign up at http://calendar.live.com!

The Windows Live Calendar team

You can interact with the team using these links:

1.           Report bugs and send feedback, which gets read by real people on the Hotmail team

2.           Read the support team’s blog, and if that doesn’t fix your problem, contact support to get help with your account