i just got my hotmail calendar imported into gmail. you have to go through a round-about way… msn does not make it easy for you to leave! there was a “robots” file error (yes, seriously!) that prevented me from directly importing it. here is what to do:
1. Select one of your hotmail calendars and enable sharing on it. Edit Sharing->Share This Calendar
2. Select the ‘Send friends a view-only link to your calendar’ and copy the ICS link provided.
3. Open up your windows calendar and click Share->Subscribe. (or just paste the link in a browser to prompt the windows calendar)
4. Paste in your ICS link from hotmail. Now you should see your hotmail calendar in the windows calendar.
5. File->Export the calendar as a .ics file to your computer.
6. In google calendar click Other Calendar->Add->Import Calendar.
7. browse to your .ics file and import it. Done!

Liz, how did you solve it?? (BTW, I never received the Windows live activation email in my gmail inbox, so how do I activate it??)

It finally worked! I just hat to activate the gmail-account :-$

thx a lot!!!!

Danny’s trick didn’t work for me either – I can only “switch” between these accounts, but not forward from hotmail to gmail. Are there other ideas?

thx

Keeping your old email address?

Add it to Gmail and use it with your new account.

Gmail lets you add your other email addresses to your account so you can manage mail from one place. Use Gmail to send messages from another one of your email addresses. Here’s how:

* Log in to your Gmail account at mail.google.com.
* Click ‘Settings’ at the top of any Gmail page.
* Open the ‘Accounts’ tab, and click ‘Add another email address.’
* Enter your other email address in the text box, and click ‘Next Step.’
* Click ‘Send Verification.’ An email will be sent to your old account to verify that you entered the correct email address.
* Follow the instructions in the verification email, and start using your Gmail account to manage all of your email addresses!

In GMail it allows you to send and reply to email using any email address that you would like.

By default it is not possible to forward emails from hotmail accounts to non Microsoft associated email clients, such as gmail. However, there is a way to get around this.

For example, if you would like to have emails forwarded from abc@hotmail.com to xyz@gmail.comdo as follows:

1. Register xyz@gmail.com as a Microsoft Passport Account by going to the this cite – https://accountservices.passport.net/ppnetworkhome.srf?vv=600&lc=1033

2. Make sure that the abc@hotmail.com account is already registered as a Microsoft Passport Account, which it should be.

3. Log into the newly created xyz@gmail.com Microsoft Passport Account, and link the two accounts to each other – on the scroll down menu above the ‘Sign Out’ button, click on ‘Link Accounts’, and link the abc@hotmail account to the xyz@gmail Microsoft Passport Account

4. Sign on to the abc@hotmail.com account, which should now be linked to the xyz@gmail account, by clicking on it in the scroll down menu above the ‘Sign Out’ button, go to options, and set up the account to forward to xyz@gmail.com. This is a setting in the options menu.

Even though the hotmail account is not supposed to forward to non Microsoft related clients, it will now forward to the gmail account, becaue their Microsoft Passports are now linked to each other.

This worked for me, and I hope it works for anyone else who tries it.

Note, that nowhere during this whole process is in necessary to log on to the gmail account on the gmail domain, only log on to the newly created Microsoft Passport Account as xyz@gmail.com

Also note, that the emails will no longer be stored in the hotmail account. Once forwarded to the gmail account, they will be deleted from the hotmail account.

Hope that helps!