I got a strange pop up today from the Mail app .. saying I needed to log into gmail!
Thinking this was a phish, I called the MS store.
They tell me that Gmail calendar and contacts can no longer synch with the Win 8 environment.
This is a bummer! Maybe a Surface kiss of death!
A lot of Win apps. esp those that are RT specific, REQUIRE the MS Mail/Contacts/Calendar apps. While you can still get your email over the web, the web based cal and contacts is not going to work with anything that requires desk top apps … try “sharing” a web page or a PDF!
All MS has to offer is switching to Outlook.com but I work with other people and we share Gmail calendars and contacts. I even have seven of my own computers that would need to be changed to Outlook.com.
I gather this was Google’s decisions because they do not want to pay for Active Synch BUT the customers who bought a Surface RT are really being eff’d.
