Windows 3.1 Calendar

Windows Calendar
Windows 3.1 Calendar is great and fabulous and is still the best thing since sliced bread.
You can still use it in all versions of Windows: Windows 95/98/ME/XP. Get it here!

Windows 3.1 Calendar, far from being the embarassment Microsoft seemed to think it was when they withdrew it, is the neatest and best little calendar program anywhere, paricularly in the Month View.

Never mind schedule programs for business. They should have kept updating Windows Calendar as a nice little Month View Calendar for home use - the way I still use it!

Some of these features are included in Works Calendar or Outlook Calendar, but these Calendars only work as part of much larger programs, which are slower, much more difficult to install, and have to be purchased seperately. An updated version of the Windows Calendar would be much better - quicker, simple, and available to everyone who uses Windows. The same way it was with Windows 3.1

Today, the nearest thing to an updated version of Windows Calendar which is quick, simple, and available to everyone who uses Windows, is Palm Desktop - the PC software that works with a Palm PDA. It's a free download from www.palm.com and you don't need to have a Palm PDA to use it.

Maybe one day Microsoft will give us an updated Windows Calendar as good as this.

	Windows 3.1 Calendar	An Updated Windows Calendar	Works Calendar	Outlook Calendar	Palm Desktop
Grid that sizes to the window	NO	YES	YES	YES	YES
Ability to type into each box	NO	YES	YES	YES	YES
Type in any font and colour in box	NO	YES	NO	NO	NO
Any background colour in box	NO	YES	NO	NO	NO
Icons or wallpaper in any box	NO but 5 different Marks are available	YES	NO	NO	NO
Print out the Month View	NO unless you Print Screen	YES	YES	YES	YES
Cost	Free with Windows	Free with Windows	Requires expensive additional purchase of Microsoft Works, even if you only want the Calendar	Requires expensive additional purchase of Microsoft Office, even if you only want the Calendar	Free
Ease of Use	Compact standalone program - easy to add-on to any system	Compact standalone program - easy to add-on to any system	Difficult to start - requires a 3 stage process with the mouse after waiting for the whole Works suite to start. Impossible to start the Calendar from a desktop shortcut.	Can only be used within the Outlook e-mail system, after completion of a long complicated setup process, and specifying passwords	Fairly compact program - easy to add-on to any system
Ease of Use	Easy to save files	Easy to save files	Easy to save files	Very difficult to save Calendar information as a seperate file	Easy to save files

Computer Geeks Corner
If you like Windows 3.1 Calendar (1992), you might also like to try the earlier versions:

The scrollbar which lets you scroll 100 years forwards or backwards at the slightest touch (whether you like it or not) is one of the more noticeable differences !

Also note that there is no Help file because there was no Help system in Windows 1 or Windows 2.

Windows 1 Calendar starts in a tiny window which you need to resize before you can see the actual calendar.