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Criticism of Microsoft Microsoft has acquired several companies and products during its history, including some that competed with earlier Microsoft products.

Microsoft List of companies acquired by Microsoft Corporation

Chris Roberts (film producer) The company was acquired by Microsoft soon after, who sold two of Digital Anvil's projects to Ubi Soft.

Phase Forward He started to discuss this with his friend Richard Dale, who had previously been an executive at Vermeer Technologies (the company that created Frontpage), which had been acquired by Microsoft.

High Definition Compatible Digital In 2000, Microsoft acquired the company and all of its intellectual property assets.

trueSpace In early 2008, the company was acquired by Microsoft and trueSpace 7.6 was released for free.

Altamira Software The company was acquired by Microsoft in 1994.

List of acquisitions by technology companies See: List of companies acquired by Microsoft Corporation

Jellyfish.com List of companies acquired by Microsoft Corporation

Pavel Curtis Curtis left Xerox in 1997 to become a principal architect and co-founder of PlaceWare, a web-conferencing company that was acquired by Microsoft in 2003.

LinkExchange List of companies acquired by Microsoft Corporation

List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft Microsoft has acquired 128 companies, purchased stakes in 60 companies, and made 24 divestments.

List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft Of the companies that Microsoft has acquired, 99 were based in the United States.

Paul Isaac The company was eventually acquired by Microsoft.

Caligari Corporation In early 2008, the company was acquired by Microsoft.

File Allocation Table A free FAT32 driver for Windows NT 4.0 was available from Winternals, a company later acquired by Microsoft.

Softimage The company became public in 1992 and was acquired by Microsoft in 1994.

Magnetic Scrolls In January 1995 another Magnetic Scrolls programmer Steve Lacey joined RenderMorphics and in February of the same year Microsoft acquired the company.

List of acquisitions by Google List of companies acquired by Microsoft Corporation

Viva Piñata Many gamers and gaming journalists proclaim that Viva Piñata is one of Rare's best outings yet, with IGN indicating that it is the best Rare game since Microsoft acquired the company in 2002.

Creature House Creature House is a company acquired by Microsoft in September of 2003.

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Timeline of virtualization development February 18, 2003, Microsoft acquired virtualization technologies (Virtual PC and unreleased product called "Virtual Server") from Connectix Corporation. [6]

Windows Server 2003 Windows Storage Server R2 can be used as an iSCSI target with standard and enterprise editions of Windows Storage Server R2, incorporating WinTarget iSCSI technology which Microsoft acquired in 2006 by from StringBean software.

Microsoft's move toward mobile and embedded devices Microsoft, utilizing a robust adaptive strategy, tried to jump its way into the “hot, youth-oriented messaging and social networking market” by purchasing Danger, Inc. and acquiring their technologies instead of spending many futile hours in their own Research and Development department(Carson).

Economy of Romania Microsoft acquired Romanian Antivirus Technology in 2003.

Stefan Brands In February 2008, Microsoft acquired the technology, and Stefan and his key colleagues joined Microsoft.

GeCAD Software In 2003, after establishing a distribution network of 60 countries and over 10 million users worldwide, the technology was acquired by Microsoft.

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Spyware More recently Microsoft acquired the GIANT AntiSpyware software, rebranding it as Windows AntiSpyware beta and releasing it as a free download for Genuine Windows XP and Windows 2003 users.

Microsoft Virtual PC The software was originally written by Connectix, and was subsequently acquired by Microsoft.

Eric Hahn Hahn also co-founded Lookout Software, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2004.

Mark Russinovich On July 18, 2006, Russinovich announced in his blog that Winternals Software has been acquired by Microsoft and that he was joining the company's Platforms and Services division.

Indie Built Access Software was acquired by Microsoft in 1999, became part of Microsoft Game Studios and was renamed to "Salt Lake Games Studio".

Tex Murphy The last game to be released was in 1998 and the developer of the series is no longer in business (Access Software was acquired by Microsoft, who in turn sold the studio to Take-Two Interactive, who shut it down).

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Microsoft List of companies acquired by Microsoft Corporation

List of acquisitions by technology companies See: List of companies acquired by Microsoft Corporation

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Windows Live Toolbar After Microsoft acquired Onfolio, it integrated the product with Windows Live Toolbar, which was the only way to get Onfolio.

Onfolio After Microsoft acquired Onfolio, it integrated the product with Windows Live Toolbar, which was the only way to get Onfolio.

JJ Allaire On March 8, 2006, Onfolio was acquired by Microsoft where many of the features of the original product are being incorporated into the Windows Live Toolbar.

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Intel 8080 Microsoft would create the first popular programming language for the 8080, and would later acquire DOS for the IBM-PC.

Digital Research When the IBM PC arrived in late 1981, it came with PC-DOS, which was developed from 86-DOS, which Microsoft acquired for this purpose.

Edlin Edlin was actually originally written for Seattle Computer Products's 86-DOS (QDOS), which Microsoft acquired and sold as MS-DOS.

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Pavel Curtis Curtis left Xerox in 1997 to become a principal architect and co-founder of PlaceWare, a web-conferencing company that was acquired by Microsoft in 2003.

PlaceWare In 2003, Microsoft acquired PlaceWare and renamed its core product Microsoft Office Live Meeting.

Microsoft Office Live Meeting Microsoft acquired PlaceWare to improve upon NetMeeting, its own webconferencing technology.

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Acrylic Creature House Expression, a vector graphics editor that was developed by Creature House and later acquired by Microsoft

Microsoft Expression Design Microsoft Expression Design is Microsoft's commercial professional illustration vector and raster graphic design tool based on Creature House Expression, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2003.

Comparison of vector graphics editors Microsoft Expression Design is a commercial vector and bitmap graphics editor based on Creature House Expression, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2003.

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Microsoft At the end of 1997, Microsoft acquired Hotmail, the most popular webmail service, which it rebranded as "MSN Hotmail".

Asian American Sabeer Bhatia co-founded Hotmail, which was acquired by Microsoft.

List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft On December 31, 1997, Microsoft acquired Hotmail for $500 million, its largest acquisition at the time, and integrated Hotmail into its MSN group of services.

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Microsoft Visio Note: There is no Visio version 7 to 9, because after Microsoft acquired and branded Visio as a Microsoft Office product, the Visio version numbers followed the Office version numbers.

Visio Corporation On January 7, 2000, Microsoft Corporation acquired Visio in a stock swap.

List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft Microsoft acquired Seattle-based Visio Corporation on January 7, 2000 for $1.375 billion.

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Microsoft At the end of 1997, Microsoft acquired Hotmail, the most popular webmail service, which it rebranded as "MSN Hotmail".

1990s E-mail becomes popular; as a result Microsoft acquires the popular Hotmail webmail service.

1990s in technology & science E-mail becomes popular; as a result Microsoft acquires the popular Hotmail.com webmail service.

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Vermeer Technologies The company was purchased by Microsoft for US$133 million in January of 1996 in order to acquire FrontPage as a new weapon in the browser wars.

Vermeer Technologies Incorporated The company was purchased by Microsoft for US$133 million in January of 1996 in order to acquire FrontPage as a new weapon in the Browser Wars.

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Microsoft Visio Microsoft acquired Visio Corporation in 2000.

Lighthouse Design Diagram was copied by Visio Corporation, who were acquired by Microsoft in 2000.

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Rare (company) In 2002, Rare was acquired by Microsoft.

2002 in video gaming Microsoft acquires Rare Ltd.

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Acrylic Creature House Expression, a vector graphics editor that was developed by Creature House and later acquired by Microsoft

Creature House Creature House is a company acquired by Microsoft in September of 2003.

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CareerBuilder A 2007 deal was completed, in which Microsoft will acquire a minority stake in the firm and continue its relationship through 2013 with CareerBuilder as the exclusive content provider for the MSN Careers channel.

CareerBuilder Microsoft moved quickly to acquire a minority stake in the company in exchange for using the company's database on their own portal site.

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Criticism of Microsoft Microsoft has acquired several companies and products during its history, including some that competed with earlier Microsoft products.

Microsoft Identity Integration Server MIIS has its origins in two Canadian companies' products, Linkage Software's metadirectory product LinkAge Directory Echange (LDE) which Microsoft acquired in July 1997 and Zoomit Corporation's metadirectory product, Via, which Microsoft acquired in July 1999.

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Indie Built Access Software was acquired by Microsoft in 1999, became part of Microsoft Game Studios and was renamed to "Salt Lake Games Studio".

Tex Murphy The last game to be released was in 1998 and the developer of the series is no longer in business (Access Software was acquired by Microsoft, who in turn sold the studio to Take-Two Interactive, who shut it down).

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Process Explorer Process Explorer is a freeware computer program for Microsoft Windows created by Sysinternals, which was acquired by Microsoft Corporation.

Bryce Cogswell Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006.

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ScreenTonic ScreenTonic was acquired by Microsoft on May 3, 2007, and their technologies were merged into Microsoft adCenter.

Microsoft adCenter Microsoft acquired ScreenTonic on May 3, 2007, AdECN on July 26, 2007, and YaData on February 27, 2008 and merged their technologies into adCenter.

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Visual Studio Team System TeamPlain for Team System (now acquired by Microsoft), to access TFS from Web, Visual Studio, and Eclipse.

Kaspersky Lab Kaspersky Anti-Virus engine also powers products or solutions by other security vendors, such as Check Point, Bluecoat, Juniper Networks, Sybari (now acquired by Microsoft), Netintelligence, GFI Software, F-Secure, Borderware, FrontBridge, G-Data, Netasq, and others.

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Halo (series) On June 19, 2000, Microsoft acquired Bungie Studios and Halo: Combat Evolved became a launch title for the Xbox video game console.

Alex Seropian Alex Seropian was one of the initial founders and the President and CEO of Bungie Software Products Corporation (renamed Bungie Studios after it was acquired by Microsoft), the developer of the Marathon, Myth, and Halo series.

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List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft Microsoft acquired the Norwegian enterprise search company Fast Search & Transfer on April 25, 2008 for $1.191 billion to boost its search technology.

List of Enterprise Search Vendors January 2008 Microsoft acquires FAST Search and Transfer for $1.3 billion

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List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft Microsoft acquired the Norwegian enterprise search company Fast Search & Transfer on April 25, 2008 for $1.191 billion to boost its search technology.

List of Enterprise Search Vendors January 2008 Microsoft acquires FAST Search and Transfer for $1.3 billion

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File Allocation Table A free FAT32 driver for Windows NT 4.0 was available from Winternals, a company later acquired by Microsoft.

NTFSDOS Winternals was acquired by Microsoft mid 2006.

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Interix Interix was acquired by Microsoft in 1999.

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Calista Technologies Calista Technologies was acquired by Microsoft in January 2008 for more than $100 million in stock.

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Hjalmar Winbladh Sendit was acquired in 1999 for $150 million by Microsoft where Winbladh served as general manager of Microsoft’s Mobile Internet Business Unit until 2001.

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Nicholas Longano In May 2006, Massive was acquired by Microsoft for approximately $200 million - providing investors a 1000% ROI.

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Windows Live OneCare Microsoft acquired Komoku on March 20, 2008 and merged its computer security software into Windows Live OneCare.

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Microsoft Identity Integration Server MIIS has its origins in two Canadian companies' products, Linkage Software's metadirectory product LinkAge Directory Echange (LDE) which Microsoft acquired in July 1997 and Zoomit Corporation's metadirectory product, Via, which Microsoft acquired in July 1999.

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Microsoft Identity Integration Server MIIS has its origins in two Canadian companies' products, Linkage Software's metadirectory product LinkAge Directory Echange (LDE) which Microsoft acquired in July 1997 and Zoomit Corporation's metadirectory product, Via, which Microsoft acquired in July 1999.

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Microsoft Identity Integration Server MIIS has its origins in two Canadian companies' products, Linkage Software's metadirectory product LinkAge Directory Echange (LDE) which Microsoft acquired in July 1997 and Zoomit Corporation's metadirectory product, Via, which Microsoft acquired in July 1999.

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Phase Forward He started to discuss this with his friend Richard Dale, who had previously been an executive at Vermeer Technologies (the company that created Frontpage), which had been acquired by Microsoft.

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High Definition Compatible Digital In 2000, Microsoft acquired the company and all of its intellectual property assets.

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X terminal Thin clients have somewhat supplanted X terminals in that they are 'fattened' with added flash memory which contains software that duplicates much of the various Microsoft operating systems, thus acquiring the ability to "speak" a range of remote desktop protocols.

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Data General Groove Networks was acquired by Microsoft in 2005, and Ozzie has replaced Bill Gates as chief software architect at Microsoft.

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Ray Ozzie Groove was acquired by Microsoft in 2005, where Ozzie became one of three Chief Technical Officers.

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Lionhead Studios In April 2006 Lionhead Studios was acquired by Microsoft, signalling the end of independent development, and a focus on Microsoft's proprietary gaming platforms.

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List of acquisitions by Microsoft The majority of the companies acquired by Microsoft are based in the United States.

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Scott Banister ListBot was acquired by Microsoft.

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Softimage Microsoft acquires Softimage

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Mailroute Thomas A. Johnson was also the original founder and CEO of FrontBridge, the email filtering company that was acquired by Microsoft in 2005 [1].

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Mailroute Thomas A. Johnson was also the original founder and CEO of FrontBridge, the email filtering company that was acquired by Microsoft in 2005 [1].

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Microsoft adCenter Microsoft acquired ScreenTonic on May 3, 2007, AdECN on July 26, 2007, and YaData on February 27, 2008 and merged their technologies into adCenter.

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Microsoft adCenter Microsoft acquired ScreenTonic on May 3, 2007, AdECN on July 26, 2007, and YaData on February 27, 2008 and merged their technologies into adCenter.

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FASA When Microsoft acquired the FASA Interactive subsidiary, Babcock went with that company.

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MindAlign On the 5th Oct 2007 Parlano was acquired by Microsoft.

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Bruce Artwick In January 1996, BAO and the copyright to Flight Simulator were acquired by Microsoft.

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Bruce Artwick In January 1996, BAO and the copyright to Flight Simulator were acquired by Microsoft.

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Jellyfish.com The Middleton, Wisconsin-based company was acquired by Microsoft in 2007.

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Microsoft Dynamics AX Microsoft acquired Navision Damgaard during the summer of 2002.

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LinkExchange In November, 1998, LinkExchange was acquired by Microsoft for US$265 million.

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Microsoft Gatineau In 2006 Microsoft acquired DeepMetrix Corporation and used the analytics technology to deliver Gatineau.

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Altamira Altamira Software, a computer software developer acquired by Microsoft in 1994

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Altamira Altamira Software, a computer software developer acquired by Microsoft in 1994

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Ashton-Tate ( Note: Microsoft would later acquire Fox Software after the Borland acquired Ashton Tate and the justice department forced Borland to not assert ownership of the dBase language).

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RAV (disambiguation) Reliable AntiVirus, a platform-independent security application developed by GeCAD Software and later acquired by Microsoft

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GIANT AntiSpyware GIANT Company Software, Inc. was acquired by Microsoft Corporation on December 16 2004.

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Microsoft Dynamics AX The combined company, initially NavisionDamgaard, later Navision A/S, was then ultimately acquired by the Microsoft Corporation in the summer of 2002.

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DATAllegro This could change to SQL Server and Windows, as Microsoft has acquired DATAllegro as of 2008 July.

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List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft On August 17, 2006, Microsoft acquired 7.92% of its own common stock for $20 billion.

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2000 in video gaming Microsoft Corporation acquires Bungie Software Products Corp.

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Windows Live Agents In October 2006, Microsoft acquired privately owned Colloquis Inc., a provider of conversational online business solutions that feature natural language-processing technology.

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Windows Live Agents In October 2006, Microsoft acquired privately owned Colloquis Inc., a provider of conversational online business solutions that feature natural language-processing technology.

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iView Media iView Multimedia was acquired by Microsoft on June 27 2006 and renamed it to Microsoft Expression Media as part of its Microsoft Expression line of products.[1]

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FASA Studio In 1999, Microsoft Corporation purchased VWEG to acquire the talent at FIT.

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Microsoft Expression Studio Expression Media is largely based on its predecessor iView Media which Microsoft acquired in June 2006.

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Microsoft Expression Studio Expression Media is largely based on its predecessor iView Media which Microsoft acquired in June 2006.

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Microsoft Bookshelf Bookshelf 1.0 used a proprietary hypertext engine that Microsoft acquired when it bought the company Cytation in 1986.

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Winternals On July 18 2006, Microsoft Corporation acquired Russinovich's two sites.

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Microsoft Software Licensing and Protection Services Microsoft SLPS, formerly called SecureLM, was acquired by Microsoft in January 2007 from the company Secured Dimensions.

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ND-NOTIS The NOTIS way of sorting was included in the first version of Sybase, which was acquired by Microsoft as DS1.

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MSN Music Microsoft acquired MongoMusic on September 13, 2000 and merged its technology.

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VXtreme On Aug 5, 1997, Microsoft acquired VXtreme.

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TED Notepad He claimed that Microsoft was going to acquire all TED Notepad sources and copyrights for $701.556, which was the current size of the source code (in bytes).

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TED Notepad He claimed that Microsoft was going to acquire all TED Notepad sources and copyrights for $701.556, which was the current size of the source code (in bytes).

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Jordan Weisman In 1999, Microsoft acquired FASA Interactive and moved the 40-person development team to Redmond, Washington.

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Teleo Teleo was acquired by Microsoft on 31 August, 2005.

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Price comparison service Greenfield Online (owner of Ciao) acquired by Microsoft for up to $486m

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OpenEV Vexcel, Inc. was acquired in May, 2006 by Microsoft and left the software to Mario Beauchamp and a team of developers.

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SmarterChild Colloquis was acquired by Microsoft on October 12 2006.

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Andy Rubin When Magic Cap failed, Rubin joined Artemis Research, founded by Steve Perlman, which became WebTV and was eventually acquired by Microsoft.

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Andy Rubin After several years, Rubin left to found Danger, Inc with Matt Hershenson and Joe Britt, which was later also acquired by Microsoft in February, 2008.

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MSN Building on the success of MSN's web-based e-mail service, Hotmail, which was acquired by Microsoft in December 1997, the MSN Messenger Service for instant messaging was launched in 1999.

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Microsoft FrontPage Vermeer was acquired by Microsoft in 1996 specifically so that Microsoft could add FrontPage to its product line-up.

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Yahoo! After Microsoft's failed bid to acquire Yahoo!, Microsoft is rumored to be looking at acquiring LiveDoor, a leading Japanese portal and the leading blogging service in Japan, to strengthen its position against Yahoo! Japan.

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Microsoft Game Studios This also meant Microsoft acquired the rights to Rare’s own original IP’s such as the Perfect Dark, Banjo-Kazooie and the Conker the Squirrel franchises.

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Yahoo! After Microsoft's failed bid to acquire Yahoo!, Microsoft is rumored to be looking at acquiring LiveDoor, a leading Japanese portal and the leading blogging service in Japan, to strengthen its position against Yahoo! Japan.

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Alvy Ray Smith In 1991, Smith founded Altamira Software Corporation, which was acquired by Microsoft in 1994.

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GIANT Company Software Microsoft Corporation acquired GIANT on December 16, 2004.

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Spyware More recently Microsoft acquired the GIANT AntiSpyware software, rebranding it as Windows AntiSpyware beta and releasing it as a free download for Genuine Windows XP and Windows 2003 users.

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Spyware More recently Microsoft acquired the GIANT AntiSpyware software, rebranding it as Windows AntiSpyware beta and releasing it as a free download for Genuine Windows XP and Windows 2003 users.

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Tellme Networks Tellme Networks was acquired by Microsoft on March 14, 2007 for "close to $800M".[1] The deal closed in late April.

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Bruce Leak He co-founded WebTV Networks which was acquired by Microsoft.

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Microsoft Dynamics SL Great Plains was subsequently acquired by Microsoft Corporation in May 2001.

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VirtualBox The original developer, innotek, also contributed to the development of OS/2 and Linux support in virtualization and OS/2 ports of products from Connectix which were later acquired by Microsoft.

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Page Up and Page Down keys As of August 19, 2008, Microsoft has acquired a patent for making the Page Up and Page Down keys move exactly one page in a word processing environment, rather than the usual behaviour of moving up one screens' worth of text.

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Microsoft SQL Server SQL Server Reporting Services will gain charting capabilities from the integration of the data visualization products from Dundas Data Visualization Inc., which was acquired by Microsoft.

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Bungie In 2000, Bungie was acquired by Microsoft, and their then-current project, first-person shooter Halo: Combat Evolved, was repurposed into a launch title for Microsoft's new Xbox game console.

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Mobile browser In 1999 STNC was acquired by Microsoft and HitchHiker became Microsoft Mobile Explorer 2.0, not related to the primitive Microsoft Mobile Explorer 1.0.

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Bulldog (Microsoft) Bulldog is the rebranding of the Stratature MDM product titled +EDM, which Microsoft acquired in June 2007.

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Halo (series) On June 19, 2000, Microsoft acquired Bungie Studios and Halo: Combat Evolved became a launch title for the Xbox video game console.

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Scylla and Charybdis The phrase found new life in 2008 among journalists reporting on Microsoft's ongoing attempts to acquire Yahoo!.

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Softimage 3D In 1994, Microsoft acquired the Softimage Corporation and renamed the package Softimage|3D, releasing a Windows NT port a year later.

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    At the end of 1997, Microsoft acquired Hotmail, the most popular webmail service, which it rebranded as "MSN Hotmail".
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    List of acquisitions by Microsoft

    The majority of the companies acquired by Microsoft are based in the United States. ... ↑ "Microsoft to Acquire Sendit".