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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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