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   Microsoft

   At the end of 1997, Microsoft acquired Hotmail, the most popular webmail service, which it rebranded as "MSN Hotmail". ... "DRM: Digital Rights or Digital Restrictions?".
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   Microsoft Visio

   Microsoft acquired Visio Corporation in 2000. ... Clip Organizer · Document Imaging · Document Scanning · Picture Manager · SmartArt · Smart tags · Information Bridge Framework · Information Rights Management · Office Open XML · Outlook Connector · Visual Basic for Applications · WordArt
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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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   Criticism of Microsoft

   Microsoft has acquired several companies and products during its history, including some that competed with earlier Microsoft products. ... Digital rights management
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   Bulldog (Microsoft)

   Bulldog is the rebranding of the Stratature MDM product titled +EDM, which Microsoft acquired in June 2007. ... | Tools and technologies | Clip Organizer · Document Imaging · Document Scanning · Picture Manager · SmartArt · Smart tags · Information Bridge Framework · Information Rights Management · Office Open XML · Outlook Connector · Visual Basic for Applications · WordArt |
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   System Center Operations Manager

   Mission Critical Software merged with NetIQ in early 2000, and sold the rights to the product to Microsoft in October 2000.
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   Dungeon Siege

   In March 2006, Take-Two Interactive acquired all publishing rights to Dungeon Siege, ending the four-year partnership between Microsoft and Gas Powered Games.
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   List of acquisitions by Microsoft

   If the Microsoft product that is derived from the acquired company is known, then it is also listed. ... | March 15, 2005 | ContentGuard | Digital rights management | USA | — | PlayReady | |
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   Encarta

   Following the first multimedia Academic American Encyclopedia, Microsoft initiated Encarta by purchasing non-exclusive rights to the Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia, incorporating it into its first edition in 1993.
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    Digital rights management

    Digital rights management has been and is being used by content provider companies such as Sony, Apple Inc., Microsoft and the BBC. ... On September 26, 2008, the Walmart Music Team notified its customers via email they would will be shutting down their DRM servers October 9, 2008 and any DRM-encumbered music acquired from them will no longer be accessible unless ripped to a non-DRM format before that date.

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