Google Calendar and similar other online calendaring applications provide simple centralized systems, where online communities can maintain event calendars and community members can extract information about upcoming events. But many organizations prefer to display event calendars on their community portals, forums, or blogs. They often copy event calendar information from online calendaring applications onto their Web sites, reducing the effectiveness of centrally managed events online. Google Calendar provides an integrated application program interface (API) that solves the problem.
To subscribe to your Google Calendar, you’ll first need to get the iCal link to your calendar.

  • In Google Calendar: Go to Settings \ Calendars and then click on your calendar in the list.
  • You should see a “Private Address” section:

  • Right click on the ICAL link, and choose Copy Shortcut to copy the link to the clipboard.
  • Now open Windows Calendar, and click the Subscribe buttton on the toolbar:

  • Paste the URL into the textbox, and hit the Next button:

  • After what seems like far too long, you’ll see the next screen:

  • The key thing that you’ll want to choose on this screen is the Update interval, which will keep the calendar automatically sync up.
  • That’s all there is to it. Notice the blue appointments are the ones that came from Google Calendar:

Excerpted from : http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/display-your-google-calendar-in-windows-calendar/

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