Microsoft will replace Sunrise calendar app with Outlook

For fans of calendar app Sunrise, there's good news and bad news. The good news is Microsoft is putting its multimillion dollar acquisition to good use to make the calendar better in Outlook. The bad news is the company is sunsetting Sunrise.

The company will eventually discontinue Sunrise after Outlook fully absorbs all of the calendar's existing feature, Microsoft's Outlook chief revealed Wednesday

Javier Soltero, who joined Microsoft when the company acquired his email app Acompli, which became the basis for the current Outlook app, didn't say when the transition would happen but said Outlook's calendar would be steadily gaining new features during the next few months Read more...