In its announcement, Google explains that “Calendar Interoperability is the critical component to help ensure events created in one calendar system are accurately propagated for guests using different calendar systems.” This move to recognize and support third-party services will inevitably work in favour of the company, with many individuals and businesses preferring to split their digital footprint between multiple companies, all of whom have their own merits and preferred use cases.
As part of the update, Outlook users who also have a Google Calendar with the same email address can receive Google Calendar invitations and RSVPs directly in Outlook without having to be in the Google ecosystem. Non-Google Calendar recurring events are now expected to be more “systematically and accurately” reflected in Google’s portal as well. This is a Google-wide feature that applies to both business and individual customers and is already available.
