Outlook.com Calendar birthdays sync issue

This is getting embarrassing.  Again, I have missed congratulating one of my Contacts on her birthday!

@Moderators:  I was told several months ago that the support team has been notified.  How about asking them what  the status is?

@Support: When is this problem going to get fixed?

@Effected Users:  Keep this thread alive.  Keep asking the moderators for an update !!!!!!!

It makes no sense obviously.

I've send several feedbacks via calender feedback and nothing has been happened since then.

It is hard to believe that such big company like MS has lack of software developers to fix this obvious bug. Most propably that product management have set wrong priorities to devs. Or community management haven't raised that issue with proper priority to product management.

Nevertheless either management decision has been wrong or communication between Community <-> ProductManagers <-> Devs has been broken somewhere.

That is how brilliant idea with people and calendar hubs can be defiled by buggy realization.

If community will be ignored further - people simply will choose other better services. Like it was with many MS products before (IE6, Windows Mobile and so on).

MS, why do you need first of all loose your reputation and then tries to return it back?

PS: Sad for MS, but I have to say that I'm already moved back to gmail from outlook.com as a mail provider after one year of usage.

Microsoft is not taking this seriously, so I suggest that everyone who hasn't done so already:

• refers an Answer Tech to this thread on http://support.microsoft.com/ContactUs/TechnicalSupport (Outlook.com)
• reports the problem on https://status.live.com/report?productid=cal (Something else)
• clicks on 'Me Too' under 'Had this question' next to the original post

Any other routes? :)

I just permitted to post a corresponding comment on "Blogging Windows", where Windows 10 gets big hype and attention preliminary, encouraging everyone here to follow:

http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2014/12/17/december-update-on-the-windows-insider-program/#comment-14921

There is no doubt that live.com has several issues, like saving a .csv People backup with birthday dates in local format (15-05-1959 in Denmark) instead of the proper ISO date format (1959-05-15) is enough to give me nerdy tics.

The post from HarryHerlin explains the trouble I had with the automatic birthdays during the summer and fall 2014, after creating a group of best friends on the Windows phone and missing those people's birthdays later - but it is not the current behaviour on my Microsoft account. It is now stable for a month.

The error on my account was never a birthday roulette, it was a case of certain people's birthdays missing.

I'm happy to help investigate and escalate this, but it must be a reproducible error on a fresh test account.

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Hans

Microsoft is not taking this seriously, so I suggest that everyone who hasn't done so already:

• refers an Answer Tech to this thread on http://support.microsoft.com/ContactUs/TechnicalSupport (Outlook.com)
• reports the problem on https://status.live.com/report?productid=cal (Something else)
• clicks on 'Me Too' under 'Had this question' next to the original post

Any other routes? :)

I just permitted to post a corresponding comment on "Blogging Windows", where Windows 10 gets big hype and attention preliminary, encouraging everyone here to follow:

http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2014/12/17/december-update-on-the-windows-insider-program/#comment-14921

Thanks! The last reply from Microsoft was on September 27; they are turning a blind eye...