Who did Microsoft acquire

Microsoft acquired company

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.

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].

Microsoft Project In 1988 the company was acquired by Microsoft, bringing the development project in-house where it was finished and released in 1990 as part of the company's applications offerings for Microsoft Windows 3.0.

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

Paul Isaac The company was eventually acquired by Microsoft.

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

Chris Roberts The company was acquired by Microsoft soon after, who sold two of Digital Anvil's projects to Ubi Soft. Roberts left the company after the acquisition, abandoning the director position of his extremely ambitious project Freelancer, even though he remained with the game in a consulting role for a while.

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

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.

Altamira Software The company was acquired by Microsoft in 1994.

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

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

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.

Microsoft acquired list

List of assets owned by Microsoft Corporation List of companies acquired by Microsoft Corporation

LinkExchange List of companies acquired by Microsoft Corporation

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Microsoft List of companies acquired by Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft acquired software

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.

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).

Microsoft acquired Rare

List of commercial failures in video gaming Rare had created several innovative smash hits on previous consoles, most notably Donkey Kong Country, Killer Instinct, Banjo-Kazooie and GoldenEye 007, and Microsoft had acquired Rare, paying US$377 million.

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

Diddy Kong Racing The game was aborted when Rare was acquired by Microsoft in 2002, although it was rumored to reappear as an Xbox title called Sabreman Stampede.

Microsoft acquired DOS

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.

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

Microsoft acquired Onfolio

Windows Live Toolbar After Microsoft acquired Onfolio, it integrated the product with Windows Live Toolbar.

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.

Onfolio After Microsoft acquired Onfolio, it integrated the product with Windows Live Toolbar.

Microsoft acquired technology

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

Timeline of virtualization development February 18, 2003, Microsoft acquired virtualization technologies (Virtual PC and unreleased product called "Virtual Server") from Connectix Corporation. [5]

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

Microsoft acquired Hotmail

Hotmail Hotmail was acquired in 1997 by Microsoft for an estimated $400M.

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.

Microsoft acquired rights

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 loveable Conker the Squirrel franchises.

Shadowrun (2007 video game) In January of 1999, Microsoft purchased FASA Interactive, acquiring the electronic rights to Shadowrun in the process.

Microsoft acquired PlaceWare

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.

Microsoft acquired Inc.

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

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

Microsoft acquired founder

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.

Origin Systems Founder of Digital Anvil, later acquired by Microsoft.

Microsoft acquired Access Software

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

Links (computer game) Links was the name of a series of golf simulation computer games, first developed by Access Software, and then later by Microsoft Game Studios after Microsoft acquired Access Software.

Microsoft acquired service

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

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

Microsoft acquired Sysinternals

Bryce Cogswell Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006.

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

Microsoft acquired now

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.

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

Microsoft acquired Visio Corporation

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

Microsoft Visio Microsoft acquired Visio Corporation in 2000.

Microsoft acquired Creature House Expression

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.

Microsoft acquired Winternals

NTFSDOS Winternals was acquired by Microsoft mid 2006.

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

Microsoft acquired Plains

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

Microsoft acquired Teleo

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

Microsoft acquired Groove

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

Microsoft acquired FASA Interactive

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

Microsoft acquired Creature House

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

Microsoft acquired serve

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

Microsoft acquired great

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

Microsoft acquired Massive Inc

Microsoft Game Studios During May 2006 Microsoft also acquired Massive Inc, an in-game advertising company to provide additional revenues from their gaming platforms such as PCs and the Xbox 360.

Microsoft acquired LiveDoor

livedoor After Microsoft's failed bid to acquire Yahoo!, Microsoft is rumored to be looking at acquiring LiveDoor to strengthen its position against Yahoo! Japan.

Microsoft acquired Calista Technologies

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

Microsoft acquired Interix

Interix Interix was acquired by Microsoft in 1999.

Microsoft acquired Halo

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

Microsoft acquired Bungie Studios

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

Microsoft acquired origins

Microsoft Identity Integration Server MIIS has its origins in Canadian Zoomit Corporation's metadirectory product, Via, which Microsoft acquired in July 1999.

Microsoft acquired origins

Microsoft Identity Integration Server MIIS has its origins in Canadian Zoomit Corporation's metadirectory product, Via, which Microsoft acquired in July 1999.

Microsoft acquired friend

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.

Microsoft acquired Richard Dale

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.

Microsoft acquired April 2006 Lionhead Studios

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.

Microsoft acquired majority

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

Microsoft acquired Parlano

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

Microsoft acquired LinkExchange

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

Microsoft acquired DeepMetrix Corporation

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

Microsoft acquired copyrights

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).

Microsoft acquired Connectix

VirtualBox VirtualBox's original developer company, 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.

Microsoft acquired Bungie Software Products Corp

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

Microsoft acquired sources

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).

Microsoft acquired provider

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.

Microsoft acquired Colloquis Inc.

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.

Microsoft acquired products

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

Microsoft acquired sites

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

Microsoft acquired Microsoft SLPS

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

Microsoft acquired Komoku

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

Microsoft acquired Rare Ltd

2002 in video gaming Microsoft acquires Rare Ltd.

Microsoft acquired VXtreme

VXtreme On Aug 5, 1997, Microsoft acquired VXtreme.

Microsoft acquired GIANT

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

Microsoft acquired MongoMusic

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

Microsoft acquired WebTV Networks

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

Microsoft acquired STNC

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.

Microsoft acquired Softimage Corporation

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

Microsoft acquired engine

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

Microsoft acquired Sybari

Sybari Sybari was acquired by Microsoft in June 2005 and was a company that sold anti-spam and antivirus solutions for Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint, instant messaging, SMTP, and Lotus Domino.

Microsoft acquired Visio

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

Microsoft acquired ScreenTonic

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.

Microsoft acquired Windows Storage Server R2

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 acquired integration

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.

Microsoft acquired Romanian Antivirus Technology

Economy of Romania Microsoft acquired Romanian Antivirus Technology in 2003.

Microsoft acquired wholesale

kill (Unix) An "unsupported" version of Kill was included in several releases of the Microsoft Windows Resource Kits (aka "RezKits") available for Windows NT 3.x, NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Microsoft Windows Server 2003, the most efficacious of these being Version 3.5 of Kill, Copyright (C) 1994 Microsoft Corp. GNU versions of Kill have been ported via Cygwin and run inside of the unix os layer that Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX provides (Microsoft acquired Windows Services for Unix wholesale via their purchase of Softway Systems and their Interix product in September 17, 1999).

Microsoft acquired Multimedia

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]

Microsoft acquired Media

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

Microsoft acquired Winternals Software

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

Microsoft acquired Inc. Following

Earl Levine He worked at Vxtreme, Inc. until its acquisition by Microsoft, Inc. Following that he worked at Liquid Audio, Inc. Liquid Audio's patent portfolio was acquired by Microsoft, Inc. in 2002[1].

Microsoft acquired predecessor

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

Microsoft acquired editor

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

Microsoft acquired Altamira Software Corporation

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

Microsoft acquired Tellme Networks

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

Microsoft acquired +edm

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

Microsoft acquired Yahoo

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

Microsoft acquired Microsoft

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

Microsoft acquired Groove Networks

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

Microsoft acquired ListBot

Scott Banister ListBot was acquired by Microsoft.

Microsoft acquired Stefan

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

Microsoft acquired Middleton

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

Microsoft acquired developer

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

Microsoft acquired Altamira Software

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

Microsoft acquired application

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

Microsoft acquired Reliable AntiVirus

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

Microsoft acquired colleagues

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

Microsoft acquired subsidiary

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

Microsoft acquired in-game

Microsoft Game Studios During May 2006 Microsoft also acquired Massive Inc, an in-game advertising company to provide additional revenues from their gaming platforms such as PCs and the Xbox 360.

Microsoft acquired Vermeer

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

Microsoft acquired version

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

Microsoft acquired game

List of Settlers of Catan products Microsoft acquired the game for MSN Games and released Catan Online in August 2005.

Microsoft acquired Board of directors of Softricity, Inc.

Del Yocam He has served on the Board of directors of Softricity, Inc. (2001 - 2006) acquired by Microsoft, Inc. in 2006, Xircom, Inc. (1996 - 2001) acquired by Intel Corp. in 2001, Raster Graphics, Inc. (1995 - 1999), Hollywood Park, Inc. (1997-1998), Boomtown, Inc. (1995-1997) acquired by Hollywood Park, Inc. in 1997, Integrated Measurement Systems, Inc. (1995 - 1997), Oracle Corp. (1992 - 1997), Sapiens International Corp. (1995 - 1997) and AST Research, Inc. (1992 - 1995).

Microsoft acquired Steve Perlman

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

Microsoft acquired Joe Britt

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.

Microsoft acquired Fox Software

Ashton-Tate Further, in the summer of 1992 Microsoft had acquired Ohio based Fox Software, makers of the dBASE-like products FoxBASE+ and FoxPro.

Microsoft acquired makers

Ashton-Tate Further, in the summer of 1992 Microsoft had acquired Ohio based Fox Software, makers of the dBASE-like products FoxBASE+ and FoxPro.

Microsoft acquired found

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.

Microsoft acquired SmarterChild

SmarterChild Microsoft acquired SmarterChild in October 2006 with its acquisition of Colloquis, and continues to operate SmarterChild.

Microsoft acquired Bungie

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

Microsoft acquired stake

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.

Microsoft acquired access

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).

Microsoft acquired latter

RenderWare It originated in the era of software rendering on PCs prior to the appearance of GPUs, competing with other libraries such as Argonaut's BRender and RenderMorphics' Reality Lab (the latter was acquired by Microsoft and became Direct3D).

Microsoft acquired assets

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

Microsoft acquired talent

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

Microsoft acquired Lookout Software

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

Microsoft acquired Ink Development Corp.

Pierre Omidyar Prior to founding eBay, Pierre co-founded Ink Development Corp., later renamed eShop and acquired by Microsoft.