Microsoft kills Sunrise

Just one year after it bought the application, Microsoft has announced it is killing off the popular Sunrise calendar software. Microsoft bought the app for an undisclosed sum in February last year stating that "a reinvention in the way people use calendars on mobile devices is long overdue." At the time, Sunrise's founders …

[Captain DaFt]

Any one surprised?

Buy out your software's competitor, promise the sun and moon. Then when nobody's looking, strip its valuables, and chuck it under a bus.

Happens way to often when an upstart threatens the status quo.

[Andrew Hodgkinson]

Re: Any one surprised?

The phrase you are looking for in relation to Microsoft is: "embrace, extend, extinguish". On this occasion, though, we might have skipped "extend" entirely.

[Gray]

Re: Any one surprised?

And here I was thinking the phrase was "Resistance is futile! You will be assimilated!" But this is Microsoft, not the Borg... so "embrace and extinguish" may be more correct. Perhaps another reason never to depend too seriously upon anything proprietary?

[Mark 85]

This (and some of the stuff that's already being killed off in Win10) should tell one all they need to know about Microsoft. They seem to use the Google model or maybe it's the other way around...

[Sebastian A]

Eh I dunno, Google at least develop their own stuff to kill. Microsoft buys and kills other people's product.

[energystar]

As for two full generations...

Another one that bites the dust.

Unable to take the pieces to another software.

Lack of user appreciation for open standards.

[Anonymous Coward]

Calendar Facility for Clunky Windows Update?

It must be Microsoft are adding a calendar to 7's Windows Update? You get to book a date a month in advance Soviet Style, where you're allowed to pick up and download the updates for Windows 7.

[Anonymous Coward]

I still use Office 2000 + 97....

At least they can't pull that.... You can make your own Calendar system (along with email / SMS notifications in about an hour).... Nowadays M$ closes more operations than it creates... [RIP Lionhead Studios etc...]

[Anonymous Coward]

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

Everything of worth has been sucked out and co-opted into Outlook. Now there is no more use for you!