
You’ll be able to share it with others, and you can add all sorts of details about the nature of the meeting and its location. The second allows you to create a “New Meeting” which is an appointment with other people. The first buttons allow you to set a “New Appointment” which is an event just for you. The Outlook calendar details lie under the Home tab. Once you’ve entered your password, you should find that Google lets you through the front door of Outlook. But if you do want to use Outlook, you can go to the Less secure app access page, which is hidden away in your Google account, and toggle the switch to allow “Less secure apps.” The company recommends that you use a different email client-its own, for example. If you’re entering a Gmail address, you could find that “the ability to allow less-secure applications is turned off for your account.” Google doesn’t think that Outlook is secure enough. When you use it for the first time, you’ll be asked to enter an email address and its password.Īnd that’s where you might run into your first bit of trouble. The combination of email and calendar means that you have to work a little harder to setup Outlook Calendar. Although Google Calendar and Gmail are connected-so the details on a plane ticket that arrives in your Gmail inbox will be added automatically to your Google Calendar-they’re reached on separate apps and on separate websites. That can make using it even more complicated. Outlook Calendar is also embedded in Outlook itself, which was originally designed to manage emails. They also have a special button for setting up meetings and can even use those features to book meeting rooms. While Google Calendar and Apple’s calendar app assume that users will be individual customers who want to keep track of their friends’ birthdays, their dentist appointments, and their PTA meetings, Microsoft assumes that its users will sitting in their offices. Microsoft’s Outlook is a fairly complex piece of software.
