TMobile Dash Contacts/Appts VS Vista's Win Contacts & Calendar

[amglv]

Not sure if this post is in the right place but here goes:
I have a new t-mobile dash on WM6. I have a new laptop with Vista Home Premium.

The dash came with ActiveSync and Outlook. Vista doesn't use ActiveSync so I downloaded Win Mobile Device Center from Microsoft. Everything's great. I'm syncing files like crazy. EXCEPT the Dash doesn't sync to Vista's included Windows Contacts & Windows Calendar.

T-Mobile support for the dash is adamant that I need to install Outlook which is redundant on my laptop since, as stated, Vista already has a Contacts & Calendar installed. They have no idea why the dash adds it's own Contacts and Appointments icons to the sync settings screen in Win Mobile Device Center. I can't find any options to allow Vista's Windows Contacts or Windows Calendar to pull data from my dash.

Does anyone know how to accomplish this? If it is currently not a possibility and I have to install the Outlook that came with the dash - does anyone know if there are any conflicts in Vista - ie. does it integrate with the Windows Contacts & Calendar already on Vista - or do I need to uninstall those because they'll be redundant once the Outlook is on there...

I can't be the only one having this issue... right?

[Mike Temporale]

EXCEPT the Dash doesn't sync to Vista's included Windows Contacts & Windows Calendar.

That's right. Except this has nothing to do with the Dash. It's all about WMDC and Windows Mobile. There is currently no support for syncing with the built in contacts and calendar apps included with Vista. There is no word on when (if ever) that this will be support.

So for the forseeable future, you're going to have to install Outlook. :(