Microsoft launches new To-Do app at Wunderlist’s expense

If you like and use Microsoft's To-Do task manager app you will be pleased to hear that it has a new incarnation complete with extra features. However, if you are a dedicated Wunderlist user you probably know this is its death knell. Wunderlist, acquired by Microsoft in 2015, has been incorporated slowly into To-Do with the knowledge that it will cease to exist when all features have been ported over.

Wunderlist founder Christian Reber is not pleased: "[I'm] still sad @Microsoft wants to shut down @Wunderlist, even though people still love and use it. I'm serious @satyanadella, @marcusash, please let me buy it back," he posted on Twitter.

“Keep the team and focus on @MicrosoftToDo, and no one will be angry for not shutting down @Wunderlist,” he urged.

Another software founder whose mail app was absorbed by Google offered this advice: "[I] tried to buy back @sparrow at some point. Didn't go through. Best of luck for @wunderlist but I doubt they'll sell it back. Might be better to let old things die," said Dom Leca.