One of the applications of productivity that managed to call the media attention and users during the past year, it seems that he also managed to divert the gaze of those responsible for Microsoft Let's talk about the calendar Sunrise , which has recently been acquired by Microsoft as reported by TechCrunch An interesting move for a company seeking to stand out and conquer mobile platforms
According to the aforementioned media, the transaction could have been closed for at least 100 million dollars. A purchase that would benefit Microsoft in the sense of taking over the team that created one of the most complete productivity applications of the moment And it is that this calendar is much more than a simple tool to note events and appointments, surprising for supporting a good number of platforms and calendar services to have of all the ordered appointments, and add it to a design where you can set out all the tasks that the user has to do.
It appears that Microsoft could take advantage of this technology to their own good. According to the comments, the Sunrise application would continue to function independent as before, working on the different platforms to gather the quotes from Google, Exchange and iCloud users in the same and complete productivity tool.However, the intentions of Microsoft would be to take advantage of the experience and technology of Sunrise to improve its own and renewed Outlook An application that has just been published for Android e iOS and which is most attractive thanks to the new possibilities injected from another of its purchases: the application Acompli
This would create a more than interesting productivity tool for any user outside of their own mobile platform Windows Phone At the moment, the The new Outlook has surprised many by integrating the mail inboxes of the user in the same application , regardless of whether you use other services such as Gmail or Yahoo, with a calendar where you can write down all appointments and events planned through messages. A tool that could improve if the exquisite design of Sunrise is now copied, presenting not only the calendar on the screen with the appointments marked in different colors, but taking advantage of the rest on the screen to act as a to-do appSomething with which Outlook would become the most complete and interesting tool on the scene. Although for now we will have to wait to see if these hypotheses are confirmed.
For now, Sunrise users will be able to continue enjoying this application both on Android and on iOS and on the web, for which it is available. Curiously, it does not have a client for Windows Phone, although Microsoft might be more interested in focusing your intentions towards the Windows 10 platform you are developing. We will have to wait to see what this movement translates into, although it represents the addition of value for the company.
