Swiftkey technology will be integrated in Microsoft’s Guinness World Record Word Flow technology for Windows in the coming months
Microsoft has acquired keyboard software company SwiftKey. SwiftKey makes keyboard apps which are used on some 300 million Android and Apple devices.
SwiftKey estimates that its users have saved nearly 10 trillion keystrokes, across 100 languages, saving more than 100,000 years in combined typing time. The app was launched initially on Android in 2010 and arrived on iOS less than two years ago.
In this cloud-first, mobile-first world, SwiftKey’s technology aligns with our vision for more personal computing experiences that anticipate our needs versus responding to our commands, and directly supports our ambition to reinvent productivity by leveraging the intelligent cloud, said Harry Shum, Executive Vice President, Technology and Research, in a blogpost.
SwiftKey’s employees will be now part of the Microsoft as part of the acquisition. SwiftKey founders Jon Reynolds and Ben Medlock said in a blog post that “joining Microsoft is the right next stage in our journey.”
“In the coming months, we’ll have more to share about how we’ll integrate SwiftKey technology with our Guinness World Record Word Flow technology for Windows. In the interim, I’m extremely excited about the technology, talent and market position SwiftKey brings to us with this acquisition, and about how this further demonstrates Microsoft’s desire to bring key apps and technologies to platforms from Windows to Android to iOS,” wrote Harry Shum.