Windows Calendar my ass
Feb. 10th, 2025 01:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrshlSooo, fun thing with Windows, and more broadly Microsoft, is that they decided that everyone should move to their new Outlook system, which (unfortunately like many other Calendars nowadays) serves as a Contact + Calendar + Mail viewer. Since I don't use this kind of thing, and just want a plain Calendar to see my events, I just nuked it really quickly with OutlookRemover.
HOWEVER, since it wasn't funny enough for Microsoft, they forced everyone to move to their new thingy tech choke-full of AI by just... nuking the Calendar.
And I frankly don't want to use it, even if I do have a very old Microsoft account I only use for the to-do list. This thing is not only full of AI (which Microsoft is proudly shoving down everyone's throat) but also it's only accessible through internet. No internet? Guess you can say bye bye to your events...
In my search to have a workable Calendar once again, I found Thunderbird, which stores your data locally (it's made by firefox btw), but it also requires to have an email attached to it.
Another one I've found are two Flyout Calendar apps on the Microsoft store, but they both start the week with Sunday and don't have a French version.
Anywho, the solution for now seems to downgrade the Calendar app, which unfortunately will automatically upgrade itself each time you turn your computer back on.
Frankly, if I didn't need windows to do stuff, I would go away from it completely bc oooh boy is it BAD.
HOWEVER, since it wasn't funny enough for Microsoft, they forced everyone to move to their new thingy tech choke-full of AI by just... nuking the Calendar.
And I frankly don't want to use it, even if I do have a very old Microsoft account I only use for the to-do list. This thing is not only full of AI (which Microsoft is proudly shoving down everyone's throat) but also it's only accessible through internet. No internet? Guess you can say bye bye to your events...
In my search to have a workable Calendar once again, I found Thunderbird, which stores your data locally (it's made by firefox btw), but it also requires to have an email attached to it.
Another one I've found are two Flyout Calendar apps on the Microsoft store, but they both start the week with Sunday and don't have a French version.
Anywho, the solution for now seems to downgrade the Calendar app, which unfortunately will automatically upgrade itself each time you turn your computer back on.
Frankly, if I didn't need windows to do stuff, I would go away from it completely bc oooh boy is it BAD.
