Microsoft acquires Wunderlist
Microsoft has been acquiring a bunch of extremely good apps recently. After Accompli and Sunrise, it’s the turn of Wunderlist today. The company behind this famous to-do list app, 6Wunderkinder, has been acquired by Microsoft to work with it.
Microsoft has not pulled the Wunderlist apps from the App Store and the Play Store yet, and the company maintains that it will continue those apps in their respective stores. According to a company statement, even the pricing structure remains the same, so existing subscribers need not panic. So far, Microsoft has avoided pulling any of its acquired apps from the different app stores of its rivals, save for Accompli which replaced the Outlook.com app. Instead, the company is going to apple Wunderlist’s innovations its own apps and services. With a mail app, a calendar app and now a to-do app acquisition, it makes perfect sense why Microsoft chose to acquire the best apps and services across these three segments.
The Wall Street Journal sources say that the 6Wunderkinder acquisition sits somewhere between $100 to $200 million, but Microsoft has not revealed or confirmed any specifics of the deal yet.
