Sync Vista Contacts & Calendar With WM5

Just wondering if theres away to synch Contacts, Calendar & Task data in my
Vista Laptop to my Windows Mobile 5. I am able do synch it in the past with
Outlook (on my older XP machine) but do not want to install Outlook in my
new Vista Laptop.

I already downloaded and installed Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 on my
Vista machine but still can't seem to sync the contacts, calendar and task
data.

Thanks
Gregory

At 30 Dec 2008 19:26:04 +1100 Gregory Sebastian wrote:
> Just wondering if theres away to synch Contacts, Calendar & Task
> data in my Vista Laptop to my Windows Mobile 5. I am able do synch
> it in the past with Outlook (on my older XP machine) but do not want
> to install Outlook in my new Vista Laptop.


Unfortunately, WMDC only supports syncing with Outlook.


> I already downloaded and installed Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1
> on my Vista machine but still can't seem to sync the contacts, calendar
> and task data.


Correct. MS, IMO, has really dropped the ball on this. WMDC has been out
well over a year, WinMo devices no longer include a copy of Outlook, like
they did in the past, so there currently is no "out of the box" sync
solution for Windows Mobile that doesn't require additional purchases.
That's pretty embarrassing, IMO.

While Vista's Mail, Contacts, and Calendar apps are good enough for my needs,
I personally look at Outlook likeWMDC- a requirement to use my Windows
Mobile device! However, the only suggestion I have, if you're really
determined NOT to install Outlook, is to sync the device OTA with Google
Calendar and GMail Contacts using 3rd party utilities like Goosync, and
then export the Google info to Vista's suite.