Wunderlist creator wants to buy the Microsoft application

Reber added that he had "only gratitude" for Microsoft and that it was simply sad that Wunderlist did not go as planned.

This is a thorny situation for Microsoft. Wunderlist cloud features are always running on Amazon Web Services instead of Azure, The edge It should be noted that Microsoft is unable to unplug easily after stating that it would only close Wunderlist once To-Do had a parity of features. At the same time, selling Wunderlist to Reber would create its own complications: To-Do would have a direct competitor using competing services. The founder planned to improve it's got control, including improved performance, new features and open source code.

Although nothing indicates that Microsoft is about to follow up on Reber's request, this is a good illustration of the mixed results of the company's application acquisition frenzy. Microsoft has stood up well when it took Acompli to strengthen Outlook on mobile. The buyout of Sunrise, however, was less well received – people lamented the loss of Sunrise Calendar even as its features were found in Outlook. The purchase of Wunderlist is somewhere in between. Microsoft may have done everything in its power to keep Wunderlist alive, but its threat to remove the app has made some people nervous.