Accept ical invitations in outlook/pc

Does anybody know how to send/accept invitations from ical to outlook on a PC? So far it does work for me but is very complicated. I have to accept the meeting first, then beeing forwarded to the icloud webpage, download the .ics file, open it, save it, etc...
All I would like to do is hitting the "accept" button and done...
Any suggestions?

I converted my wife from me.com account to icloud. This is a bug with icloud right now and only apple can fix this. The problem is that the ics file is not formated according to the ics standard (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt). Here's an example below. From me.com account the organizer field looks like this:
ORGANIZER;CN=Doe Jane:mailto:[email protected]
With an icloud ics file you get the following:
ORGANIZER;CN=Doe Jane;EMAIL=[email protected]:urn:uuid:582538462
First problem is the equal (=) sign after EMAIL. Also I'm not sure why they used "EMAIL" instead of "mailto" but that doesn't seem to be a problem. Once you change the = to a colon (:) it starts working better, at least you are no longer the organizer.
Second problem, they have extra parameters after the email address which now get included in the email address once the colon is in place. These parameters are not in the spec and should be on another line or included in quotes. The closest parameter I could find in the specs is the UID parameter.
Not sure how to report a bug but they really need to fix this. I dont know how they could have missed something this obvious.

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I experienced this issue as well.
Background:
I had opened an ICS attachment for a repeating event on my iPhone, which added the item to my phone's calendar. I did not have the option to delete the calendar entry from my phone, and the item did not appear on the calendar on my Mac. My phone is currently running iOS 7 (but the problem began quite awhile ago; I don't recall which version of iOS was installed when it started).
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I have three Macs: 1. an iMac which sits on my desk. 2. An older MacBook Pro and 3. a brand new MacBook air which I bought a week or two ago to replace the older MacBook Pro.
All three are running Lion, the first two upgraded from Snow Leopard, the MacBook Air was purchased with Lion. All three are fully updated using software update. All three are synchronised using mobile me.
I am not using any server capability.
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When one of my customers sends me an invitation to a meeting I get the invite in an email of course. These invites come exclusively from Outlook as that's what all my clients use but that should not be relevant.
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