And you can’t even find it in your browser unless you type and enter a URL that looks like this. It won’t be on your Android device unless you download it. It won’t be on your iPhone unless you put it there. The Office 365 Calendar isn’t quite so straightforward. Pull up Gmail on your phone or in your Web browser and as long as you’re signed into your Google account, you’ll be able to browse your schedule and enter your events. We’ll start with the free versions then we’ll play with some of the more advanced settings in the version of calendar that comes with the subscription-based Office 365.Įnter your Apple account details into your iPhone and when you press the calendar app, you’ll be ready to go. In this guide, we’re going to take you through all of the Office 365 Calendar’s functions for 2020. It’s both more powerful and in some formats easier to use than you might expect. It was a massive change and it means that the calendar that comes with the Office suite is worth another look. After years of stasis, the company has revamped its Office suite, switched to a subscription model and offered versions of many of its key products for free. Always more of a hardware company than a software firm, Apple was happy to toss a free calendar and email program onto its devices if it meant that it could charge a fortune for the devices themselves. And because it could make money on the advertising surrounding those products, it could give them away for free. Google could embed its calendar and its email app into every one of the hundreds of millions of phones and tablets that use its Android system. When that change arrived Microsoft was at a disadvantage. In fact, that mobile access has become more important than the heavy system that Microsoft had for so long been selling to businesses. Users also need to be able to access their calendars on their phones and tablets. At the same time the spread of mobile devices has made calendars fixed into an email system on the workplace computer insufficient. The rise of competition from Google Calendar, Apple iCal, Yahoo Calendar and other companies has given businesses and individuals the opportunity to use different platforms to manage their time and their messages. It was never very friendly or particularly convenient but at a time when the best advice on technical knowhow came from an animated paper clip, the system worked-more or less. Employees would find their work stations already set up with Microsoft Outlook, and from the desk at reception the administrative assistant would enter the company’s dates and meetings in Outlook’s calendar. Back in the early days of the Web, there was only one way for a business to organize its communications and its schedules.

Outlook reminder setup