Microsoft has acquired the Sunrise calendar application in a deal worth over $100 million, a report revealed today. The buyout may be the next step in the company’s plans to revamp its mobile offerings, which started with the release of the new Outlook email app—also based on acquired software—last month.
Like Acompli, Sunrise works with a variety of services, not just Microsoft’s. Those services include Google’s calendar service, iCloud calendars, and, of course, Exchange. It also had built-in support for reminders that sync along with the calendars.
Sunrise packs in some additional features similar to Apple’s first-party solution, such as integrated mapping to help you get to your events. Social events from Facebook and contacts’ birthdays can also be displayed, and LinkedIn connectivity provides more information about the people you’re meeting up with.
It seems likely that Sunrise will be relaunched with new Microsoft branding relatively soon. It will certainly be interesting to see where Microsoft takes its mobile software strategy next.
Update 2/11: Microsoft confirms reported acquisition in YouTube video interview with Sunrise CEO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KhasPPLH7A
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Oh well, I give up. A hundred million for a calendar app?
Remember, they paid $200 million for Acompli.
That’s the reason why you never earn a hundred million $
So i wonder what they gonna offer us for our alugha project… Sorry but 100Mio for some additional features for a CALENDAR??
$100 million for a mobile calendar app? Somewhere in the scheme of life and moonlight development, I’m doing something very very wrong :)
$100 million for a calendar app, oh God… But that’s still nothing compared to the $19 billion for Whatsapp
Welp, goodbye Sunrise, hello Fantastical.
Finally MS can fix it.