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Microsoft Accidentally Announced That It's Acquiring A Company

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Someone at Microsoft made a big mistake.

TechCrunch reports that people who had subscribed to the official Microsoft blog via its RSS feed had a surprise yesterday when a new post appeared titled "blank post please delete."

There weren't any clues to its meaning in the body of the post itself, either, which also simply read "blank post, please delete."

But it was the URL of the post that was really interesting: http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2014/11/25/microsoft-acquires-acompli/

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No post with that URL exists on the Microsoft blog, so the "blank post" was taken down as soon as it was published. But the URL reads as if Microsoft is planning an announcement of a company called Acompli. 

Accompli is an email app for iOS and Android that includes an integrated calendar and helps people find the most important messages from their inbox. It's certainly a good fit for Microsoft, with The Verge already calling it the "Outlook for iPhone."

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James was the technology editor at Business Insider UK from its launch in 2014 up to 2018. Before joining Business Insider, James was a Contributing Editor at The Daily Dot, and the Deputy Editor of The Kernel. Disclosure: James has an ISA and pension, which are managed by Nutmeg and Aegon respectively. It's possible that they could choose to invest in technology companies, but James doesn't make any investment decisions.