iCalendar versions

I have brand new Laptop with Vista. My Office 2K Professional does not run on

Vista so I bought Home and Student Office for our PC's on our home intranet.

So, I have no Outlook, but others still have Ourlook 2000. I can not afford

to buy the latest Outlook for all.

I have Windows Calender and latest version of MS Works Calendar that came

with laptop. When you export or publish, both give the option of using the

iCalendar (.ics) format. However if you try to import iCalendar from each

other the Import Result error of "could not import calendar" message comes up

referring to file versions, etc.. I opened both export .ics files using

notepad from each application and compared them. Despite them being the same

version number of .ics file, the file structures are different. Is it my

imagination or is the Windows Calendar .ics format non-standard?

My problem is I like the functionality of the Windows Calendar with task

list, but I like the ability to export my Works calendar using the HTML

format option to a machine on our home intranet so everyone can see my

calender with a browser. Anyway to export a Windows Calendar to another form

than .ics? If I could import it to Works, then I could export it to HTML.

Since I keep sensitive information in my calendar and contacts, I am not open

to using an outside service to host my Calendar. I used Yahoo Calendar with

my Outlook 2000 as it had good security, but cannot do so for Works or

Windows Calendar. I do not trust Google because of issues I have experienced

before. Any ideas?

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Dr Mike