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Re:Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app... by blahblah12 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @06:51AM (#14155571)
It's pretty much a replica of the original app. It's being developed by the same team that made Wunderlist as in Chad Fowler and company (he has a larger portfolio now). Most of these comments are probably unnecessary. The original team still works at MSFT The app is simply a rebrand that's trying to add additional features over time.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/fowlerchad/

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Re:Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app... by mcintyre1994 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @08:13AM (#14155934)
I know it's the same team and I'm sure it'll reach parity/inherit their existing roadmap, but with Accompli they literally just rebranded it Outlook and released as is - complete with support for gmail etc. remaining. I'm just curious why they didn't do the same here, I'm sure there's a good reason and it'd be interesting to hear it.
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Re:Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app... by thrawn0r on Thursday April 20, 2017 @09:48AM (#14156565)
Wunderlist had an own backend infrastructure where accompli just managed your mailbox based in gmail, exchange, yahoo etc via a standardized protocol (imap). This app uses the Exchange Online backend (hence you see Outlook tasks showing up in To-Do) so it is a re-write, not re-brand
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Re:Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app... by gorbachev on Thursday April 20, 2017 @07:56AM (#14155842)
It is not a replica of Wunderlist. I'm a long time Wunderlist user, and Microsoft To-Do only implements a subset of the Wunderlist features. It's close, but several important organizational features, like sub tasks and nested lists/projects are not there.
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Re:Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app... by mattferderer on Thursday April 20, 2017 @11:31AM (#14157549)
Very similar to what they did with Sunrise. Buy the app & implement a very poor version. I like a lot of Microsoft things but they killed Sunrise & their Outlook app which once was good has become filled with bugs in my experience.

I know have to help my wife migrate from Wunderlist. This will not be fun.

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