#microsoft’s Wunderlist acquisition is getting complicated
Microsoft first acquired Wunderlist almost three years ago, promising the to-do app would help the company “reinvent productivity for a mobile-first, cloud-first world.” At the time, Wunderlist founder and CEO Christian Reber joined Microsoft to continue leading the app forward. Instead, Microsoft launched its own To-Do app to replace Wunderlist last year, and fans of Wunderlist haven’t been happy it’s going away.
At the time of Microsoft’s To-Do launch, the company announced the new app would eventually replace Wunderlist and incorporate most of its best features. That hasn’t really happened yet, and fans of Wunderlist are labelling Microsoft To-Do a “half-cooked scrap.” Wunderlist found Christian Reber left Microsoft in September just…
