I think that it's just crazy that Outlook 2003 Professional Edition does not
support subscribing to remote iCalendar (.ics) files. This seemingly simple
feature is preventing Windows users at our School of Medicine from being able
to subscribe to lecture calendars, student event calendars and syncing this
information with their portable devices. Importing .ics files is simply not
an acceptable option because of the frequency of change in the calendars.

I've done some reading, and aparently this is a feature of "Windows
Calendar" which is due to appear along with Windows Vista, when ever that is
released; however, I'm scared about the slow adoption rates.

Please, spend the development time in a service pack release of Office and
include this simple feature so Windows users can enjoy the same calendaring
abilities that Mac OS X users enjoy with Apple's (free) iCal application.