Windows Vista and Office 12 to support .ics files

Sounds like the forthcoming Office 12 and Windows Vista will have full support for the .ics file standard. Before you start double-checking which blog you're reading, there's a method behind my madness of blogging this story: this means that iCal users can soon confidently send event invitations to users of Office 12 and Windows Vista. That is: if Vista ever arrives.

For Windows Vista users who haven't forked out $1 zillion for Office 12, Vista will include what sounds like a new basic calendar app by the name of Windows Calendar. Three cheers folks: with the advent of Vista, we might not have to swallow quite as much Advil just trying to send event invitations to the Windows-using world.

[via Hawk Wings]