Looks like Google might be helping me - and a whole load of other people like me - out in a big way. I’ve just seen a post to the Official Google Blog (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/google-calendar-sync.html) Which indicates Google have now launched a product for syncing my Outlook Calendar with Google Calendar.

This was my life for a whole year before we started working on Google Calendar Sync, a 2-way synching application between Google Calendar and the calendar in Microsoft Outlook.

This could be great. I say “Could be“, because I have seen a similar product from Google which sync’s my Blackberry with my Google Calendar. On the face of it it seemed great, but it didn’t really work properly, so I very quickly stopped using it. Issues with not syncing stuff that had already been sync’d with Outlook and/or recurring appointments and/or appointments that had already been created.

So, with some trepadation I will give this service a go, but I will be putting it through its paces, before I fully commit to it. Right now my setup is as follows:

• In the office: Microsoft Outlook
• At Home: iMac, therefore iCal
• At Home/On the road: MacBook Pro: iMac, therefore iCal
• Mobile: Blackberry

Currently, I use Blackberry Desktop Manager to sync my Blackberry (BB) with my Outlook. I use CompanionLink to sync Outlook to Google Calendars. I have tried SpanningSync to sync my Google Calendar with the Mac’s in my life, but that all went very smelly very quickly, so I soon stopped that. Right now I don’t use iCal at all, so the Blackberry calendar is really my out of office solution, which is not my preferred choice - I’d much rather have all calendars in sync with one another

Update: The company I work for has provided me with W2K on my desktop. No guessing, but do you think Gogle Calendar Sync works with anything other than Windows XP or Vista? That’s a little frustrating!