Microsoft Kills Off Sunrise Calendar, Folds It Into Outlook

The Sunrise calendar app was released in 2014. It integrates with Google calendars and a bunch of other calendars, meaning that you should be able to consolidate a bunch of data into a single app, making it highly useful. Microsoft recognized the potential of Sunrise and acquired it earlier this year.

At that time Microsoft didn’t really do much with the app and allowed it to remain independent, but unfortunately that has come to an end. In a post on the Sunrise Blog, the team has revealed that the app will be officially killed off, and that its features will now be folded into the Microsoft Outlook app for iOS and Android devices.

According to the app’s developers, “Now here comes the sad news. As the entire team is completely focused on the Outlook for iOS and Android apps, we won’t be updating the Sunrise apps anymore. We won’t lie, it’s tough for us to leave behind the apps we’ve been working on so passionately for the past years.”

That being said we suppose this is bad news for those who use the app as a standalone. However if you already use Outlook on your smartphone, then we guess you won’t be losing too much. The updated Outlook app for iOS has already been released and the updated version for Android is expected to arrive soon.

Tyler Lee
Categories: Apple, Cellphones
Tags: Android, Apps, iOS, Microsoft, outlook