Microsoft acquires Acompli

The best feature about Acompli is that when your corporate IT goon tries to remote wipe your device from the Exchange server, they can only wipe your email, not your entire device. Most people don't realize that by using the default iOS and Android mail clients to connect to an Exchange server, they're implicitly giving it the ability to remotely wipe their entire mobile device.

Absolute no brainer. Product was well-crafted and I don't know why no one combined email and calendar before, but this made my life a lot easier and I'm iPhone/Gmail. For exchange users this must be a quantum leap ahead.

Any clue about the acquisition price?<p>Edit: Their business model was we-will-see-later, so being acquired should definitely have been one of the options.<p>&quot;How is the Acompli mobile app free?<p>The full-featured Acompli app is completely free for everyone. Acompli is a well-funded company that will later make paid services available to companies.&quot;

OK, I &#x27;ve got the signal. Google buys email app company, what was it name? Some birdy, wasn&#x27;t it. And Google shuts it down. Now MS buys email app company...<p>The is something important in email for big ones, they do not want small ones there it seems. Just paranoid.<p>Before mobile era there was incredible mail &lt;s&gt;app&lt;&#x2F;s&gt; programme - Calypso. Dead before Google became IPO. No one wanted to support it after it was open sourced. Probably it would be better for it to be bought by some Microsoft. Outlook could learn UTF-8 in subject lines a bit earlier.<p>UPD: on a second thought. I can see mutt and alpine behave very similarly in terminal apps from iOS. Why, why people like GUI mail so much? Perhaps Calendar integration is the answer?<p>UPD: Yeah, lads, it was Calypso. Survived till v3.3, but never did better.

$200 million, for an email app from a company that was setup ~1.5 yrs ago. Has the whole world gone mad?

To revoke GMail access to Acompli&#x2F;Microsoft, go here: <a href="https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;security.google.com&#x2F;settings&#x2F;security&#x2F;permissions</a>

While this app seems polished and well crafted, I find this acquisition surprising. I can see no real innovation here besides combining convenient, known features in one app. Nothing that depends on patents and nothing Microsoft couldn’t build. Am I missing something?

Well good for Acompli... and I mean that, though I&#x27;ve never heard of them. But it&#x27;s sort of sad that it&#x27;s almost 2015 and we&#x27;re still building email, contact, calendar, and to-do managers.

Realize that when using Acompli, all your email flows through their servers. That means Acompli is storing your credentials. It&#x27;s unfortunate that Acompli hides this fact through hand-waving.<p>On a personal level, I say &quot;no thanks&quot; to this. On a corporate level, people should realize that this violates many corporate infosec policies.

Wonder when we&#x27;ll see more startups going more aggressively into replacing e-mail, interoperating with it or adding features on top of it.<p>Of course have heard all the arguments against e-mail killers and why that won&#x27;t happen.<p>Will it?

huge congrats to Accompli team! They were posted at Heavybit Industeries until recently, I got the chance to second hand see Javier as a leader who gravitates talent and happiness with the fellow employees.<p>Here is a talk by him entitled the first million is the hardest. <a href="http://www.heavybit.com/library/video/2013-05-21-javier-soltero" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.heavybit.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;video&#x2F;2013-05-21-javier-solt...</a>

I use this for access to my companies exchange server from my android device. I&#x27;d imagine a lot of other folks use it like this as well.

I guess the surprise is kind of gone. ;)

related: <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/26/microsoft-appears-to-pre-announce-its-purchase-of-email-startup-acompli/?ncid=rss" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;26&#x2F;microsoft-appears-to-pre-an...</a><p>btw, 200M? Wow..

Acompli sounds very similar to the native functionality of Windows Phone OS.