Microsoft lets slip ahead of time its intention to buy Acompli

Reportedly an unfinished note prepared to be posted on the official Microsoft blog under the name of Rajesh Jha, Corporate Vice President of Office Servicios y Servidores, would have been open long enough to reach RSS readers of more than one. They have discovered this in TechCrunch, where they have been able to see the post listed with a link that, although it no longer exists, contains enough information in its URL to reveal the news ahead of time.

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The specific post address says it all: (http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2014/11/25/microsoft-acquires-acompli/). There you can see how the post would have been published on November 25, 2014 with what should be part of the title of the post: microsoft-acquires-acompli. That is, Microsoft acquires Acompli Clearer water."

Anyone has a slip and that seems to be what has happened here. It would be very rare for Microsoft to prepare an announcement of a purchase for no reason or without being close to being closed, so it is quite likely that Redmond is very close to officially announcing the purchase of Acompli. So the question that arises now is what exactly is Acompli

The answer comes from our colleagues at Applesfera and Xataka Android: Acompli is an application to manage our email while integrating the calendar at the same timeAcompli's proposal is one more of those that already populate the mobile ecosystem, but equipped with a series of characteristics that aim to make life and work a little easier for us.In this way, for example, we can check our contacts directly in the application, search through all our emails or browse directly through all the attached files.

Acompli is completely free, supports Exchange, and works with a wide variety of accounts, including Microsoft accounts. The application began its journey on iOS this year, extending to Android after the summer. What he proposes seems to have convinced several investors, who have injected 7.3 million dollars into the company, and also Microsoft, which seems willing to buy it to continue improving its proposal of services, applications and tools aimed at increasing our productivity.

Via | TechCrunch