Microsoft offers enhancements to the calendar program that allow a single person in your office to maintain a calendar for everyone on your network and to set meetings and send notices with ease. Meetings are a big issue for me and the organization of my calendar around them is an important feature. Outlook makes that very simple. If I get an email from somebody in Chicago telling me there will be a conference call the following week at a certain time, all I need to do is drag that email into the calendar icon and a window pops up immediately allowing me to schedule that conference call. I can put as much information as I can possibly use in regard to the meeting into the window that automatically opens up.
Email is managed in Outlook very efficiently.
You can prioritize critical email messages with flags. The Outlook calendar is especially powerful and useful. The interface can be changed to suit almost any predilection and it has the capacity to switch between daily, weekly, and monthly views with ease. In the monthly views, meetings can be changed by drag and drop with the mouse maintaining all of their characteristics and information in the new time slot. The reminder aspect of the calendar is very strong and very flexible.