List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft

Microsoft is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox, the Xbox 360, and the Xbox One, as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS.

The company's initial public offering was held on March 14, 1986. The stock, which eventually closed at US$27.75 a share, peaked at $29.25 a share shortly after the market opened for trading. After the offering, Microsoft had a market capitalization of $519.777 million.[1] Microsoft has subsequently acquired 182 companies, purchased stakes in 64 companies, and made 25 divestments. Of the companies that Microsoft has acquired, 107 were based in the United States. Microsoft has not released financial details for most of these mergers and acquisitions.

Since Microsoft's first acquisition in 1987, it has purchased an average of six companies a year. The company purchased more than ten companies a year between 2005 and 2008, and it acquired 18 firms in 2006, the most in a single year, including Onfolio, Lionhead Studios, Massive Incorporated, ProClarity, Winternals Software, and Colloquis. Microsoft has made eight acquisitions worth over one billion dollars: Skype (2011), aQuantive (2007), Fast Search & Transfer (2008), Navision (2002), Visio Corporation (2000), Yammer (2012), Nokia (2013) and Mojang (2014).

Microsoft has also purchased several stakes valued at more than a billion dollars. It obtained an 11.5% stake in Comcast for $1 billion, a 22.98% stake in Telewest Communications for $2.263 billion, and a 3% stake in AT&T Inc. for $5 billion. Among Microsoft's divestments, in which parts of the company are sold to another company, only Expedia, Inc. was sold for more than a billion dollars; USA Networks purchased the company on February 5, 2002 for $1.372 billion.

Key acquisitions

Microsoft's first acquisition was Forethought on June 29, 1987. Forethought was founded in 1983 and developed a presentation program that would later be known as Microsoft PowerPoint.[2]

On December 31, 1997, Microsoft acquired Hotmail.com for $500 million, its largest acquisition at the time, and integrated Hotmail into its MSN group of services.[3] Hotmail, a free webmail service founded in 1996 by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia,[4] had more than 8.5 million subscribers earlier that month.[5]

Microsoft acquired Seattle-based Visio Corporation on January 7, 2000 for $1.375 billion. Visio, a software company, was founded in 1990 as Axon Corporation, and had its initial public offering in November 1995.[6] The company developed the diagramming application software, Visio, which was integrated into Microsoft's product line as Microsoft Visio after its acquisition.

On July 12, 2002, Microsoft purchased Navision for $1.33 billion. The company, which developed the technology for the Microsoft Dynamics NAV enterprise resource planning software, was integrated into Microsoft as a new division named Microsoft Business Solutions,[7] later renamed to Microsoft Dynamics.[8]

Microsoft purchased aQuantive, an advertising company, on August 13, 2007 for $6.333 billion. Before the acquisition, aQuantive was ranked 14th in terms of revenue among advertising agencies worldwide. aQuantive had three subsidiaries at the time of the acquisition: Avenue A/Razorfish, one of the world's largest digital agencies,[9] Atlas Solutions, and DRIVE Performance Solutions.[10] Microsoft acquired the Norwegian enterprise search company Fast Search & Transfer on April 25, 2008 for $1.191 billion to boost its search technology.[11]

On May 10, 2011, Microsoft announced its acquisition of Skype Technologies, creator of the VoIP service Skype, for $8.5 billion.[12] With a value 32 times larger than Skype's operating profits, the deal was Microsoft's largest acquisition at the time.[13][14] Skype would become a division within Microsoft, with Skype's former CEO Tony Bates —then the division's first president —reporting to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.[15]

On September 2, 2013, Microsoft announced its intent to acquire the mobile hardware division of Nokia (which had established a long-term partnership with Microsoft to produce smartphones built off its Windows Phone platform)[16] in a deal worth 3.79 billion euros, along with another 1.65 billion to license Nokia's portfolio of patents. Steve Ballmer considered the purchase to be a "bold step into the future" for both companies, primarily as a result of its recent collaborations. The acquisition, scheduled to close in early 2014 pending regulatory approval, will not include the Here mapping service or the infrastructure division Nokia Solutions and Networks, which will be retained by Nokia.[17][18]

Acquisitions

Number Date Company Business Country Value (USD) References
1 July 30, 1987 Forethought, Inc. Computer software  United States 14,000,000 [19]
2 March 31, 1991 Consumers Software Software  Canada  — [20]
3 June 29, 1992 Fox Software PC database software  United States  — [21]
4 February 28, 1994 Softimage Wholesale 3-D visualization software  Canada  — [22]
5 September 27, 1994 Altamira Software Software  United States  — [23]
6 November 1, 1994 NextBase Software  United States  — [24]
7 November 15, 1994 One Tree Software Software  United States  — [25]
8 February 23, 1995 RenderMorphics 3D graphics hardware  United States  — [26]
9 July 10, 1995 Network Managers Systems design  United Kingdom  — [27]
10 October 17, 1995 The Blue Ribbon SoundWorks Software  United States  — [28]
11 November 6, 1995 Netwise Computer software  United States  — [29]
12 December 12, 1995 Bruce Artwick Organization Programming  United States  — [30]
13 January 16, 1996 Vermeer Technologies Software  United States  — [31]
14 March 6, 1996 VGA-Animation Software Div[note 1] Software  Germany  — [32]
15 March 12, 1996 Colusa Software Software  United States  — [33]
16 April 16, 1996 Exos Video game controllers  United States  — [34]
17 April 23, 1996 Aspect Software Engineering Computer software  United States 14,150,000 [35]
18 June 11, 1996 eShop Software  United States  — [36]
19 June 17, 1996 Electric Gravity Electronic games  United States  — [37]
20 November 1, 1996 Panorama Software Sys-On-Line[note 2] Software  Canada  — [38]
21 February 3, 1997 NetCarta Internet software  United States 20,000,000 [39]
22 March 3, 1997 Interse Internet software  United States  — [40]
23 April 30, 1997 WebTV Networks Internet service provider  United States 425,000,000 [41]
24 May 7, 1997 Dimension X Java-based platforms  United States  — [42]
25 June 13, 1997 Cooper & Peters Programming  United States  — [43]
26 June 30, 1997 LinkAge Software Internet software development  Canada  — [44]
27 August 5, 1997 VXtreme Internet video software  United States  — [45]
28 December 31, 1997 Hotmail Internet software  United States 500,000,000 [46]
29 February 23, 1998 Flash Communications Enterprise instant messaging software  United States  — [47]

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30 April 15, 1998 Firefly Relationship management software  United States 40,000,000 [49]
31 April 28, 1998 MESA Group Data sharing software  United States  — [50]
32 August 25, 1998 Valence Research Internet software  United States  — [51]
33 November 6, 1998 LinkExchange Internet advertising network  United States 265,000,000 [52]
34 January 11, 1999 FASA Interactive Computer game software  United States  — [53]
35 March 4, 1999 CompareNet Shopping online  United States  — [54]
36 March 26, 1999 Numinous Technologies Software  United States  — [55]
37 April 27, 1999 Interactive Objects-Digital Web music software  United States  — [56]
38 April 30, 1999 Jump Networks Internet service provider  United States  — [57]
39 June 7, 1999 ShadowFactor Software Wholesale computer software  United States  — [58]
40 June 15, 1999 Omnibrowse Internet software  United States  — [59]
41 June 28, 1999 Intrinsa Defect detection software  United States 58,900,000 [60]
42 July 1, 1999 Sendit Application software  Sweden 125,420,000 [61]
43 July 7, 1999 Zoomit Encryption software  Canada  — [62]
44 July 21, 1999 STNC Community software  United Kingdom  — [63]
45 September 19, 1999 Softway Systems Computer programming  United States  — [64]
46 October 29, 1999 Entropic Software  United States  — [65]
47 January 7, 2000 Visio Corporation Wholesale drawing software  United States 1,375,000,000 [66]
48 February 29, 2000 Peach Networks Digital TV services  Israel  — [67]
49 March 17, 2000 Travelscape Internet service provider  United States 89,750,000 [68]
50 April 12, 2000 Titus Communications Cable television  United States 944,800,000 [69]
51 June 19, 2000 Bungie Software Computer software  United States  — [70]
52 July 12, 2000 NetGames Software  United States  — [71]
53 September 13, 2000 MongoMusic Online music search engine  United States 65,000,000 [72]
54 September 27, 2000 Pacific Microsonics Digital audio technology  United States  — [73]
55 March 17, 2001 Vacationspot Internet service provider  United States 70,850,000 [74]
56 April 5, 2001 Great Plains Software Business management software  United States 939,884,000 [75]
57 May 2, 2001 Intellisol International Software  Canada  — [76]
58 May 31, 2001 NCompass Labs Internet software  Canada 36,000,000 [77]
59 June 21, 2001 Maximal Innovative Intelligence Software  Israel 20,000,000 [78]
60 July 1, 2001 Yupi Online Spanish Portal  United States  — [79]
61 March 11, 2002 Classic Custom Vacations Travel agency  United States 78,000,000 [80]
62 May 22, 2002 Sales Management Systems Software  United States  — [81]
63 July 12, 2002 Navision Software programming  Denmark 1,330,000,000 [82]
64 July 29, 2002 Mobilocity Computer consulting  United States  — [83]
65 September 10, 2002 XDegrees Security software  United States  — [84]
66 September 24, 2002 Rare Software and video games  United Kingdom 375,000,000 [85]
67 December 13, 2002 Vicinity Online enterprise location  United States 95,849,000 [86]
68 February 25, 2003 Connectix Software  United States  — [87]
69 March 3, 2003 DCG Internet software  Australia  — [88]
70 April 30, 2003 PlaceWare Web conferencing  United States 200,000,000 [89]
71 May 27, 2003 G.A. Sullivan Information technology  United States  — [90]
72 June 10, 2003 GeCAD Software Antivirus technology  Romania  — [91]
73 August 29, 2003 3DO Co-High Heat Baseball Software  United States 450,000 [92]
74 April 22, 2004 Encore Bus Solutions-IP Asts IP assets  United States  — [93]
75 April 26, 2004 ActiveViews Reporting systems  United States  — [94]
76 July 16, 2004 Lookout Software Personal search tool  United States  — [95]
77 December 16, 2004 GIANT Company Software Anti-spyware  United States  — [96]
78 March 2, 2005 en'tegrate Software  United States  — [97]
79 April 9, 2005 Groove Networks Community software  United States  — [98]
80 May 11, 2005 MessageCast Messaging  United States 7,000,000 [99]
81 May 31, 2005 Tsinghua-Shenxun-Cert Asts Certain assets  China 15,000,000 [100]
82 June 21, 2005 Sybari Software Software  United States  — [101]
83 August 29, 2005 Teleo VoIP  United States  — [102]
84 August 31, 2005 FrontBridge Technologies Email protection  United States  — [103]
85 September 19, 2005 Alacris Certificate management software  United States  — [104]
86 November 3, 2005 media-streams.com Software   Switzerland  — [105]
87 November 17, 2005 5th Finger Mobile  Australia 3,153,000 [106]
88 January 19, 2006 UMT-Software and IP Assets Software  United States  — [107]
89 February 13, 2006 MotionBridge Search  France 17,858,000 [108]
90 February 13, 2006 Seadragon Software Software  United States  — [109]
91 March 7, 2006 Apptimum Software  United States  — [110]
92 March 7, 2006 Onfolio Internet software  United States  — [111]
93 April 6, 2006 Lionhead Studios Video games  United Kingdom  — [112]
94 April 26, 2006 AssetMetrix Enterprise software  Canada  — [113]
95 May 4, 2006 Massive Incorporated Video game advertising  United States  — [114]
96 May 4, 2006 Vexcel Mapping software  United States  — [115]
97 May 15, 2006 DeepMetrix Web log analysis  United States  — [116]
98 June 6, 2006 ProClarity Analysis software  United States  — [117]
99 June 27, 2006 iView Multimedia Digital asset management  United Kingdom  — [118]
100 July 17, 2006 Softricity application virtualization software  United States  — [119]
101 July 18, 2006 Winternals Software Software  United States  — [120]
102 July 26, 2006 Whale Communications Applications  Israel  — [121]
103 September 26, 2006 Gteko Applications  Israel  — [122]
104 October 2, 2006 DesktopStandard Applications  United States  — [123]
105 October 12, 2006 Colloquis Natural language software  United States  — [124]
106 March 9, 2007 Medstory Internet search engine  United States  — [125]
107 March 26, 2007 devBiz Business Solutions Software tools  United States  — [126]
108 May 3, 2007 ScreenTonic Advertising and marketing  France  — [127]
109 May 3, 2007 Tellme Networks Mobile phone software  United States  — [128]
110 May 9, 2007 SoftArtisans Business Intelligence software  United States  — [129]
111 June 4, 2007 Engyro Information technology  United States  — [130]
112 June 7, 2007 Stratature Master Data Management  United States  — [131]
113 June 29, 2007 Savvis Inc-Data Centers Networking  United States 200,000,000 [132]
114 August 13, 2007 AdECN Ad Exchange  United States  — [133]
115 August 13, 2007 aQuantive Digital marketing  United States 6,333,000,000 [134]
116 October 2, 2007 Jellyfish.com Search engine  United States  — [135]
117 October 5, 2007 Parlano Enterprise messaging software  United States  — [136]
118 October 29, 2007 Global Care Solutions-Assets Assets  Thailand  — [137]
119 November 1, 2007 HOB Business Solutions Information technology  Denmark  — [138]
120 November 15, 2007 Musiwave Mobile music entertainment  France  — [139]
121 December 12, 2007 Multimap.com Mapping  United Kingdom  — [140]
122 January 22, 2008 Calista Technologies Software  United States  — [141]
123 February 7, 2008 Caligari Corporation Software  United States  — [142]
124 February 27, 2008 YaData Software  Israel  — [143]
125 March 14, 2008 Rapt Advertising yield management software  United States  — [144]
126 March 19, 2008 Komoku Rootkit security software  United States 5,000,000 [145]
127 March 31, 2008 90 Degree Software Business intelligence software  Canada  — [146]
128 April 14, 2008 Farecast Online search software  United States 75,000,000 [147]
129 April 15, 2008 Danger Mobile Internet software  United States 500,000,000 [148]
130 April 25, 2008 Fast Search & Transfer Enterprise search  Norway 1,191,000,000 [149]
131 May 26, 2008 Kidaro Software  United States  — [150]
132 June 4, 2008 Quadreon Software  Belgium  — [151]
133 June 18, 2008 Navic Networks Management software  United States  — [152]
134 June 26, 2008 Mobicomp Mobile applications  Portugal  — [153]
135 August 11, 2008 Powerset Semantic Search  United States  — [154]
136 September 16, 2008 DATAllegro Data software  United States  — [155]
137 September 28, 2008 Greenfield Online Search and e-commerce services  United States 486,000,000 [156]
138 March 1, 2009 3DV Systems Developer of ZCam, a time-of-flight camera  Israel 35,000,000 [157]
139 May 7, 2009 BigPark Interactive online gaming  Canada  — [158]
140 June 1, 2009 Rosetta Biosoftware Bioinformatics solutions for life science research  United States  — [159]
141 September 22, 2009 Interactive Supercomputing Software  United States  — [160]
142 December 10, 2009 Opalis Software Software  Canada  — [161]
143 December 10, 2009 Sentillion, Inc. Identity and Access Management Software for Healthcare  United States  — [162]
144 October 6, 2010 AVIcode, Inc. .Net monitoring technology  United States  — [163]
145 October 29, 2010 Canesta, Inc. 3-D sensing technology  United States  — [164]
146 May 10, 2011 Skype Technologies Telecommunications  Luxembourg 8,500,000,000 [165]
147 June 7, 2011 Prodiance Software  United States  — [166][167]
148 November 22, 2011 Videosurf Video search  United States 100,000,000 [168]

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149 June 25, 2012 Yammer Social networking  United States 1,200,000,000 [170]
150 July 9, 2012 Perceptive Pixel Multi touch hardware  United States  — [171]
151 October 4, 2012 PhoneFactor Two-factor authentication system  United States  — [172]
152 October 16, 2012 StorSimple Cloud-storage appliance vendor  United States  — [173]
153 October 17, 2012 MarketingPilot Marketing automation firm  United States  — [174]
154 January 3, 2013 id8 Group R2 Studios Home automation  United States  — [175]
155 February 2, 2013 Pando Networks Peer-to-peer (P2P) media distribution  United States  — [176]
156 March 4, 2013 MetricsHub Cloud monitoring  United States  — [177]
157 March 19, 2013 Netbreeze Social analytics   Switzerland  — [178]
158 June 3, 2013 InRelease Release management  Canada  — [179]
159 September 2, 2013 Nokia mobile phones unit Mobile phones, smartphones  Finland 7,200,000,000 [180]
160 October 12, 2013 HLW Software RDP applications  Austria  — [181]
161 October 25, 2013 Apiphany API management  United States  — [182]
162 January 7, 2014 Parature Customer service software  United States 100,000,000 [183]
163 May 1, 2014 GreenButton Cloud computing  New Zealand  — [184]
164 May 1, 2014 Capptain (Mobile) application development  France  — [185]
165 July 2, 2014 SyntaxTree Developer tools  France  — [186]
166 July 11, 2014 InMage Disaster recovery solutions  United States  — [187]
167 August 1, 2014 Inception Mobile Inc. Software  Canada  — [188]
168 November 6, 2014 Mojang Video games  Sweden 2,500,000,000 [189]
169 November 13, 2014 Aorato Enterprise Security & machine learning  Israel  — [190]
170 December 2, 2014 Acompli Mobile Email Apps  United States  — [191]
171 December 11, 2014 HockeyApp Mobile Beta Distribution & Crash Analytics  Germany  — [192]
172 January 20, 2015 Equivio Text Analytics Service  Israel  — [193]
173 January 23, 2015 Revolution Analytics Statistical computing and predictive analytics  United States  — [194]
174 February 4, 2015 Sunrise Atelier, Inc. Sunrise Calendar applications  United States 100,000,000 [195]
175 February 12, 2015 N-trig Styli and pen input hardware and software  Israel 200,000,000 [196]
176 March 26, 2015 LiveLoop PowerPoint collaboration  United States  — [197]
177 April 14, 2015 Datazen Software, Inc. Mobile business intelligence & Data visualization  Canada  — [198]
178 June 2, 2015 6Wunderkinder GmbH Wunderlist to-do list applications  Germany  — [199]
179 June 10, 2015 BlueStripe Software Application management  United States  — [200]
180 July 16, 2015 FieldOne Systems LLC Enterprise Field Service  United States  — [201]
181 July 19, 2015 Adallom Cloud security  Israel 320,000,000 [202][203]
182 August 3, 2015 Incent Games, LLC Sales-gamification  United States  — [204]
183 September 3, 2015 VoloMetrix, Inc. Organisational analytics  United States  — [205]
184 September 11, 2015 Double Labs, Inc. Mobile lock screen software  United States  — [206]
185 September 28, 2015 Adxstudio Inc. Web portal and application lifecycle management solutions  Canada  — [207]
186 October 2, 2015 Telekinesys Research Ltd. Game-technology vendor  Ireland  — [208]
187 November 5, 2015 Mobile Data Labs, Inc. MileIQ, a mileage tracking application  United States  — [209]
188 November 9, 2015 Secure Islands Technologies Ltd. Data protection  Israel  — [210]
189 December 18, 2015 Metanautix Big Data Analytics  United States  — [211]
190 December 21, 2015 Talko, Inc. Mobile communications  United States  — [212]
191 January 19, 2016 Teacher Gaming LLC Education Software  Finland  — [213]
192 February 3, 2016 TouchType, Ltd. SwiftKey, a keyboard productivity application  United Kingdom 250,000,000 [214][215][216]
193 February 9, 2016 Groove Music Discovery  Canada  — [217]
194 February 24, 2016 Xamarin Mobile application development  United States  — [218][219][220][221]

Stakes

Date Company Business Country Value (USD) References
June 15, 1989 Santa Cruz Operation[note 3] Wholesale computer software  United States  — [222]
March 18, 1991 Dorling Kindersley[note 4] Reference books  United Kingdom 14,340,000 [223]
June 21, 1994 Stac Electronics Data compression software  United States 39,900,000 [224]
January 19, 1995 UUNet Internet service provider  United States  — [225]
May 30, 1995 Wang Laboratories Software consulting  United States 90,000,000 [226]
October 12, 1995 Individual On-line information retrieval  United States  — [227]
April 1, 1996 Mobile Telecom Technologies[note 5] Cellular telephones  United States 25,000,000 [228]
April 22, 1996 Helicon Publishing Electronic books  United States  — [229]
September 9, 1996 SingleTrac Software  United States  — [230]
October 1, 1996 WebTV Networks Internet service provider  United States  — [231]
October 28, 1996 VDOnet Internet services  United States  — [232]
February 3, 1997 CMGI[note 6] Direct mail  United States 20,000,000 [233]
February 18, 1997 Digital Anvil Computer game software  United States  — [234]
March 3, 1997 Interse Internet software  United States  — [235]
June 30, 1997 Comcast[note 7] Cable television  United States 1,000,000,000 [236]
August 6, 1997 Apple Computer[note 8] Personal computers  United States 150,000,000 [237]
August 19, 1997 Progressive Networks[note 9] Internet software  United States 30,000,000 [238]
September 11, 1997 Lernout & Hauspie Speech[note 10] Multilingual software  Belgium 45,000,000 [239]
September 23, 1997 E-Stamp[note 11] Internet software  United States  — [240]
March 4, 1998 General Magic Community software  United States 6,000,000 [241]
March 6, 1998 WavePhore[note 12] Radio and television equipment  United States  — [242]
June 18, 1998 Pluto Technologies Network and storage  United States  — [243]
December 14, 1998 Qwest Communications[note 13] Telecommunications  United States 200,000,000 [244]
January 6, 1999 SkyTel Communications[note 14] Cellular telephones  United States  — [245]
January 31, 1999 United Pan-Europe Comm NV[note 15] Broadband communities  Netherlands 300,000,000 [246]
February 1, 1999 NTL[note 16] Communications  United Kingdom 500,000,000 [247]
February 2, 1999 Banyan[note 17] Software  United States 10,000,000 [248]
March 2, 1999 Dialogic Computer telephony  United States 24,200,000 [249]
March 8, 1999 Reciprocal Copyright protection  United States  — [250]
April 1, 1999 TV Cabo Portugal SA Cable television  Portugal 38,600,000 [251]
April 10, 1999 Lernout & Hauspie Speech Multilingual software  Belgium 15,000,000 [252]
June 8, 1999 Inprise Computer software  United States 125,000,000 [253]
June 8, 1999 NaviSite[note 18] Internet service provider  United States  — [254]
June 19, 1999 AT&T Inc.[note 19] Telecommunications  United States 5,000,000,000 [255]
June 22, 1999 Concentric Network IP-based networks  United States 50,000,000 [256]
July 5, 1999 WebMD Web-based health information  United States 250,000,000 [257]
August 20, 1999 Tuttle Decision Systems Mortgage pricing information  United States  — [258]
August 25, 1999 Rogers Communications Radio and television stations  Canada 405,120,000 [259]
December 3, 1999 Korea Thrunet[note 20] Internet service provider  South Korea 36,000,000 [260]
December 28, 1999 Globo Cabo[note 21] Cable television  Brazil 126,000,000 [261]
December 30, 1999 Commtouch Software[note 22] Community security software  Israel 20,000,000 [262]
December 31, 1999 Gigamedia[note 23] Internet service provider  Taiwan 31,470,000 [263]
January 24, 2000 Intertainer Interactive systems  United States 56,000,000 [264]
January 24, 2000 VerticalNet[note 24] Management solutions  United States 100,000,000 [265]
February 23, 2000 BroadBand Office Communication  United States 25,000,000 [266]
March 2, 2000 Ecoss[note 25] Computer programming  Japan 46,000 [267]
March 13, 2000 RealNames[note 26] Internet navigation  United States  — [268]
March 14, 2000 MEASAT Broadcast Network[note 27] Television broadcasting  Malaysia 100,000,000 [269]
April 14, 2000 Best Buy Retail stores  United States 200,000,000 [270]
July 7, 2000 Telewest Communications[note 28] Cable television  United States 2,263,000,000 [271]
July 13, 2000 Blixer Net Online telecommunications  Italy  — [272]
August 4, 2000 CAIS Internet Internet access  United States 40,000,000 [273]
October 2, 2000 Corel Corporation[note 29] Software  Canada 89,370,000 [274]
November 29, 2000 Chyron Corporation[note 30] Digital graphics  United States 6,000,000 [275]
February 12, 2001 Audible.com Online audio retail  United States 10,000,000 [276]
July 23, 2001 Sendo[note 31] Mobile handset  United Kingdom  — [277]
February 14, 2002 USA Networks[note 32] Television stations  United States  — [278]
November 3, 2005 ByteTaxi Software  United States  — [279]
October 24, 2007 Facebook[note 33] Social network  United States 240,000,000 [280]
April 8, 2008 OKWave[note 34] On-line community site  Japan 2,515,000 [281]
June 12, 2008 Zignals[note 35] Online trading  Ireland  — [282]
April 7, 2011 Toyota Media Service Corp[note 36] Web marketing services  Japan  — [283]
February 7, 2012 24/7[note 37] Outsourcing and call center services  United States  — [284]
April 30, 2012 Barnes & Noble[note 38] Book retailer  United States 605,000,000 [285]

Divestitures

Date Acquirer Target company Target business Acquirer country Value (USD) References
March 31, 1989 Steve Ballmer Microsoft[note 39] Wholesale computer software  United States 46,200,000 [286]
June 17, 1992 Microsoft Microsoft[note 40] Wholesale computer software  United States 63,750,000 [287]
July 6, 1994 Microsoft Microsoft[note 41] Wholesale computer software  United States 348,000,000 [288]
December 22, 1994 TCI Technology Ventures MSN[note 42] Internet service provider  United States 125,000,000 [289]
November 15, 1996 Microsoft MSN[note 43] Internet service provider  United States 125,000,000 [290]
December 19, 1996 Proginet TransAccess Software  United States 1,740,000 [291]
August 3, 1998 Avid Technology Softimage 3-D visualization software  Canada 284,295,000 [292]
September 21, 1999 Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch MSN Sidewalk Internet city guide  United States 340,000,000 [293]
February 24, 2000 Electronic Arts DreamWorks Interactive Computer programs  United States  — [294]
August 10, 2000 Envoy Communications Sage Information Consultants Consulting  Canada 23,730,000 [295]
September 1, 2000 Jupiter Telecommunications Titus Communications Cable television  Japan  — [296]
December 31, 2000 Technology Crossover Ventures Expedia, Inc.[note 44] Online travel  United States 50,000,000 [297]
June 26, 2001 CNBC MSN MoneyCentral Financial information  United States  — [298]
February 5, 2002 USA Networks Expedia, Inc. Online travel  United States 1,372,000,000 [299]
July 26, 2002 Liberty Media Chofu CATV Cable television  Japan 16,000,000 [300]
August 12, 2002 Agency.com KPE Inc-Certain Assets  —  United States  — [301]
February 22, 2003 The Reynolds and Reynolds Company MSN Autos-Dealerpoint Business Online auto retail  United States  — [302]
October 31, 2003 Perri Croshaw HWW Ltd-Women's Money Magazine Magazines  Australia  — [303]
November 4, 2003 Northgate Information Solutions PWA Group Software  United Kingdom 7,052,000 [304]
January 14, 2005 The Washington Post Company Slate Online magazine  United States  — [305]
February 28, 2005 Ubisoft Entertainment Microsoft Game-Sports Games Sports games  United States  — [306]
August 17, 2006 Microsoft Microsoft[note 45] Wholesale computer software  United States 20,000,000,000 [307]
May 11, 2007 MacDonald Dettwiler Vexcel Canada Mapping software  United States  — [308]
September 22, 2008 Microsoft Microsoft[note 46] Wholesale computer software  United States 36,200,000,000 [309]
May 25, 2010 Phase One Expression Media Digital media asset management software  Denmark  — [310]
October 16, 2011 Orion Health Asia Pacific of New Zealand Microsoft-HIS Software (Hospital Information System Software) Hospital Information Systems  New Zealand  — [311]
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Notes

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  2. ↑ Panorama Software Sys-On-Line was acquired from Panorama Software.
  3. ↑ Microsoft acquired an interest representing less than 20% of Santa Cruz Operation.
  4. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 26% stake in Dorling Kindersley.
  5. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 2.5% stake in Mobile Telecom Technologies.
  6. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 4.9% stake in CMGI.
  7. ↑ Microsoft acquired an 11.5% stake in Comcast.
  8. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 5% stake in Apple Computer.
  9. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 10% in Progressive Networks.
  10. ↑ Microsoft acquired an 8% stake in Lernout & Hauspie Speech.
  11. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 10% stake in E-Stamp.
  12. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 2.88% stake in WavePhore.
  13. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 1.32% stake in Qwest Communications.
  14. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 5.7% stake in SkyTel Communications.
  15. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 7.9% stake in United Pan-Europe Comm NV.
  16. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 5.25% stake in NTL.
  17. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 7.5% stake in Banyan.
  18. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 4.4% stake in NaviSite.
  19. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 3% stake in AT&T.
  20. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 6% stake in Korea Thrunet.
  21. ↑ Microsoft acquired an 11.5% stake in Globo Cabo.
  22. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 5.6% stake in CommTouch Software.
  23. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 10% stake in Gigamedia.
  24. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 1.35% stake in VerticalNet.
  25. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 5% stake in Ecoss.
  26. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 20% stake in RealNames.
  27. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 9% stake in MEASAT Broadcast Network.
  28. ↑ Microsoft acquired 22.98% of Telewest Communications.
  29. ↑ Microsoft acquired 24 million preferred shares of Corel Corporation.
  30. ↑ Microsoft acquired an 8.73% stake in Chyron Corporation.
  31. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 10% stake in Sendo.
  32. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 15.4% stake in USA Networks.
  33. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 1.6% stake in Facebook.
  34. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 10.52% stake in OKWave.
  35. ↑ Microsoft acquired a 15% stake in Zignals.
  36. ↑ Microsoft acquires minority stake in Toyota Media Service Corp
  37. ↑ Microsoft acquires minority stake in 24/7
  38. ↑ Microsoft acquires a 17.6% stake in Newco
  39. ↑ Steve Ballmer acquired 945,000 Microsoft shares.
  40. ↑ Microsoft repurchased 1.9% of Microsoft shares.
  41. ↑ Microsoft repurchased 3% of Microsoft's common stock.
  42. ↑ TCI Technology Ventures acquired 20% of MSN.
  43. ↑ Microsoft acquired the remaining 20% stake that it did not already own in MSN from Tele-Communications Inc.
  44. ↑ Technology Crossover Ventures has acquired 6% of Expedia, Inc.
  45. ↑ Microsoft acquired 7.92% of its own common stock outstanding.
  46. ↑ Microsoft repurchased 7.92% of its common stock outstanding.

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