You should go to
http://calendar.live.com and sign in once. That will get
your birthday calendar working.
For the final release, we're trying to remove this requirement.
Thanks,
Eyal (dev).
Quote:
> The new beta of live mail looks great but birthdays of my contacts are not
> showing up in the calendar. Although my UK Holidays are displaying OK.
>
> Is this feature currently working?
>
> Russ