I don't think it's that easy. The reason is works on Android and iOS is because they have apps to perform that function. Since the Venue Pro is 8.1, it's not app-driven in the same way that dumber devices are. There is no protocol (per se, that's not technically accurate) that defines moving data from Google to another app - you can't do it with Eudora or Thunderbird or Outlook or Mac Mail or any of those things. It only works in "the Google app." Until there is a desktop "Google app" for Windows, this can never work. It is indeed a pain, but I've been dealing with it for years with Google users say "I want my Google stuff in Outlook." I'm sure you do, but you can't have it. On the one hand, historically it's up to the content provider to produce the app to consume that data on a device - it should be Google making "desktop Google app." Of course, they don't want to do that - they want your data on their servers. OTOH, Microsoft could probably produce that app or add that functionality into Outlook, but a) they would probably get sued or b) Google would make a game of changing the protocol (as they've done with Maps and Youtube) or c) It would be dumb of them to make using Google easier when they would love you to have Office 365. Which does, in fact, work *everywhere*. (I have been seriously thinking about subscribing, maybe having it host my email domain.)
I have never used that. Big believe in "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" so I pretty much never pre-emptively update drivers or BIOS. If something is broken I go hunting, but I never proactively update or let something do it for me. :shrug: