{"id":129640,"date":"2016-02-03T07:20:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T14:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/03\/microsoft-is-buying-swiftkey.html"},"modified":"2016-02-08T15:10:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T22:10:24","slug":"microsoft-is-buying-swiftkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/03\/microsoft-is-buying-swiftkey.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is buying SwiftKey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SwiftKey has been my Android keyboard of choice for some time now. I&#39;m not particularly thrilled that MS is buying them, but that&#39;s more on general principles than the, um, paranoia I&#39;ve seen in some of the comment threads.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, congratulations to the founders, and I hope your baby will be in reasonably good hands.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Artem Russakovskii<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Well, it&#39;s official.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/blog.swiftkey.com\/microsoft-acquires-swiftkey'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Az8a_J4PMMbvVa1CPFFmYvhcoDYIkiaWASR-WAITgVcVTGR_-f2_jG-Nc3twdilztO5LTqsvvj8vCfNKdSkWAOLfTyUiPsnEjoKhAmL6IBosoXxeEZtgCvrQQrlb=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/blog.swiftkey.com\/microsoft-acquires-swiftkey'>SwiftKey is joining Microsoft<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWe&rsquo;re excited to announce an important milestone on SwiftKey&rsquo;s journey. As of today, we have agreed to join the Microsoft family. Microsoft&rsquo;s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our mission is to enhance interaction between people and technology. We think these are a perfect match, and we &hellip;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/SFnDVFLhWnZ'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SwiftKey has been my Android keyboard of choice for some time now. I&#39;m not particularly thrilled that MS is buying them, but that&#39;s more on general principles than the, um, paranoia I&#39;ve seen in some of the comment threads. At any rate, congratulations to the founders, and I hope your baby will be in reasonably &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/03\/microsoft-is-buying-swiftkey.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft is buying SwiftKey&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-my-mobile-pda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42507,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/11\/swiftkey-for-free.html","url_meta":{"origin":129640,"position":0},"title":"SwiftKey for Free","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 11-Jun-14 1:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm a big fan\u00a0of SwiftKey on Android, and not only is it getting some nice new features, it's also going for free. 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