When Windows Live Calendar came out of beta in January, we introduced a birthday calendar to automatically keep track of your contacts’ birthdays. We’ve just improved the birthday calendar to make it even more flexible.

Whenever you add birthday information in your contact list, it appears in your calendar. But now you can also add birthdays right from inside the birthday calendar (and they’ll automatically sync with your contact list).

When you add a new birthday, you can call attention to it with a special charm and you can set a second reminder (so you really don’t forget to buy that gift).

If you don’t like the birthday calendar, you can turn it off or delete the whole thing. Deleting the birthday calendar doesn’t change what’s in your contact list, so you can always add the birthday calendar back later.

There are a few other additions to the settings page: you can also change the default charm that goes with birthdays. And you can refresh the calendar to make sure it has all the latest birthdays that are in your contact list.

We hope these improvements help you keep track of birthdays.

Happy scheduling,

The Windows Live Calendar Team