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Microsoft To Shut Down Wunderlist, an App It Acquired Two Years Ago, In Favor Of Homegrown App To-Do (techcrunch.com)

Posted by msmash on from the microsoft-things dept.

From a report on TechCrunch: Microsoft acquired the popular mobile to do list application Wunderlist back in 2015, and now it's preparing users for its eventual demise with the release of its new application "To-Do," it announced this week. The new app was built by the team behind Wunderlist, and will bring in the favorite elements of that app in the months ahead, Microsoft insists. The company also added that it won't shut down Wunderlist until it's confident that it has "incorporated the best of Wunderlist into To-Do." In case you're hoping Wunderlist will get some sort of reprieve, Microsoft makes its forthcoming demise pretty clear. Stating its plans in black-and-white: "we will retire Wunderlist," it says in a blog post. In the meantime, Microsoft is encouraging Wunderlist users to make the switch by offering an importer that will bring in your lists and to-dos from Wunderlist into To-Do, where those items will now be available in other Microsoft products, like Exchange and Outlook.

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  1. To do list by Big+Hairy+Ian · · Score: 2

    1. Write pointless App

    2. Get bought out by M$

    3. Get paid to rewrite pointless App for M$

    4. Profit

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    1. Re:To do list by c · · Score: 2

      Could be worse. Step 3 could be "get paid to write some pointless crap for Office 365 while a completely different team writes a shittier version of pointless App that doesn't do half the stuff that pointless App did in the first place."

      Microsoft has shown an amazing ability lately to take the Golden Goose, kill it, throw it in the oven and then render it into a greasy pile of charcoal. Granted, they're no Yahoo! or Oracle, but they've got the touch.

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  2. Microsoft... bought a ToDo list app... by the_skywise · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft... bought a company... to program a ToDo list...

    Microsoft spent upwards of 100 million dollars... to get a ToDo list app...
    http://www.theverge.com/2015/6...

    Microsoft has this product called Outlook that, at one time, had a ToDo list built in...
    Microsoft built Outlook to compete with Lotus Notes which had... a ToDo list built in...
    Microsoft already HAS ToDo list functionality in their OneNote product - designed for the Windows 10 ecosystem and is already cloud based.

    This, ladies and gentlemen, is why MBAs SUCK! "I need a ToDo list app to fulfill market segment XJ27- go buy this popular one and integrate it with Windows 10", "But sir we have a ToDo list app built into our OneNote product"
    "Don't be a fool - that's for taking notes, not a ToDo list app. Apps are appy apps."
    "But you told us to get rid of the ToDo list in Outlook to cut costs on developers?!"
    "Don't bother me with trivialities."

    1. Re:Microsoft... bought a ToDo list app... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Wunderlist is popular having a large number of users. They bought it for the users not the app. If Microsoft can convert many of them to Office they win.

  3. Re:WTF by dnaumov · · Score: 2

    You're stupid, "tap to remove item from list" is an invaluable feature when grocery shopping.