It’s official, Microsoft’s acquired Sunrise calendar app

Feb11

by Sindy Cator on February 11, 2015 at 6:00 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

A week after the news dropped that Microsoft was acquiring calendar app maker, Sunrise Atelier, the companies have confirmed the acquisition via a YouTube video that has since been made private. The Sunrise calendar app for mobile and desktop is a user favorite. With this acquisition Microsoft is looking beyond its own developers for ways to make its calendar apps better. Earlier reports pegged the purchase price at over $100 million, but there’s no official word on what Microsoft paid. In the year since Satya Nadella became CEO, Microsoft has been working on being more open – including open source – and hopes…