Will Leopard's iCal be compatible with Outlook and others?

I've heard the new version of iCal that's shipping with Leopard that is built on a more up-to-date standard will be more compatible with other calendaring programs (sorry, I'm not up on the tech side of electronic calendars).
Does this mean that the new version of iCal will finally allow me to seek and accept meeting invitations with my brethren using Outlook?

Yes and no, for a number of reasons.
iCal has been recoded to conform with the CalDAV standard developed by CalConnect: The Calendar & Scheduling Consortium, of which Apple is a member, along with Google, IBM, the Mozilla Foundation, Novell, Oracle, Symbian, Yahoo and a host of major universities and a set of smaller, specialized organizations. Notably missing: Microsoft.
Of course.
Generally speaking, Microsoft contact and calendaring components are not entirely compatible with each other, a problem aggravated by the several supported releases of the Exchange Server component. Unless and until Microsoft announces its unqualified support—uh, like that is every going to happen—for the CalDAV standard, there is no guarantee or even a substantial likelihood that you will experience trouble-free interchange of calendaring data with Outlook users. Unfortunately, it seems all too true that in Microsoft-speak, 'interoperability' means '…so long as you do it our way.'
The release of iCal with Mac OS X 10.5 and iCal Server with Mac OS X Server 10.5, along with the release of the open source Darwin Calendar Server, should ease this process but, realistically, no one other than Microsoft can explicitly control how their contact and calendaring components will interchange data.
You can learn more about CalConnect, iCal as envisioned under Mac OS X 10.5, and iCal Server, by pressing these embedded links.

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