{"id":2181,"date":"2014-12-02T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riguy.azurewebsites.net\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2014-12-30T21:00:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T05:00:52","slug":"interesting-microsoft-purchase-of-windows-phone-app-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/?p=2181","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Microsoft Purchase of Windows Phone App Maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I normally get what is needed from my Windows phone Outlook, but some searching and sorting type of improvements would not be turned down.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Microsoft Acquires Email Startup Acompli to Give Outlook a Mobile Advantage<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Microsoft has acquired the mobile email startup Acompli, the tech giant announced today on its <\/em><em>website<\/em><em>.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the tech news site Re\/code <\/em><em>reports<\/em><em> that Microsoft paid over $200 million.<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/05\/techs-most-serious-app-acompli\/\"><em>Acompli<\/em><\/a><em> makes an email client for Android and iOS designed to make common but sometimes complex tasks\u2014such sorting messages, sending typical responses, and finding attachments\u2014much easier to accomplish on mobile devices. But even though it runs on devices from competing companies\u2014Google and Apple\u2014the app seems like a good fit for Microsoft. The product has long been focused on selling software to large companies\u2014Microsoft\u2019s bread and butter\u2014and it already plugs into Microsoft\u2019s primary email server software, Exchange.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/12\/microsoft-acquires-new-age-email-app-acompli\/\">http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/12\/microsoft-acquires-new-age-email-app-acompli\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I normally get what is needed from my Windows phone Outlook, but some searching and sorting type of improvements would not be turned down. Microsoft Acquires Email Startup Acompli to Give Outlook a Mobile Advantage &#8220;Microsoft has acquired the mobile email startup Acompli, the tech giant announced today on its website. Terms of the deal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riguy.com\/?p=2181\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interesting Microsoft Purchase of Windows Phone App Maker&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[231,41],"tags":[241,61],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outlook","category-windows-phone","tag-acompli","tag-windows-phone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4741,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions\/4741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}