Calendar app / software

Hi,

I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the applications and software avaliable, so I thought asking you folks about this might make sense.

I'm looking for calendar software, for my PC (not mac). It'd be cool if I could sync it up to my HTC desire as well, but the most important thing is that it is software rather than a browser based calendar, for instance. It's just for personal use.

I use the calendar on the desire and it is synced with google calendar at present, but g-calendar is always crashing and bugging up for me. I find various things about it infuriating and therefore I dislike using it as a calendar.

Thanks,

 

Can you sync outlook tasks to the phone with that?