List of companies acquired by Microsoft Corporation
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This is a list of companies acquired by Microsoft Corporation sorted by the year of purchase. Entries are: Company title, place, date of acquisition, product and amount of payment.
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[edit] 2007
- Jellyfish.com Middleton, Wisconsin, USA - October 2007 - Online discount shopping site. [1]
- Parlano Chicago, IL, USA - August 2007 - maker of MindAlign - a leading application for enterprise group chat that enables people to carry on topic-specific, multiparty instant messaging discussions that persist over time. Parlano’s group chat functionality is expected to be added as a new feature of Microsoft® Office Communications Server and Microsoft Office Communicator [2]
- AdEcn Santa Barbara, CA, USA - July 2007 - Advertising Exchange Platform Company where advertising networks can come together for buying and selling display advertising. [3]
- Stratature, Atlanta, USA - June 2007 - Unified Master Data Management Solution which will become part of Microsoft's Business Intelligence efforts. [4]
- Dundas, Toronto, Canada - June 2007 - Charting controls for SQL Server. People and technology acquisition, but not the whole company. [5]
- Engyro Cincinnati, OH, USA - June 2007 - Interoperability software for Systems Center and Operations Manager. [6]
- aQuantive, Inc, Seattle, USA - May 2007 - Global digital marketing and advertising solutions. Microsoft's largest acquisition in history so far, valued at $6 billion. [7]
- SoftArtisans OfficeWriter Watertown, MA, USA - Reporting authoring in Microsoft Office. People and technology acquisition, but not the whole company. [8]
- ScreenTonic SA, Paris, France - May 2007 [9] - Mobile advertising solutions
- devBiz Business Solutions, Izmir, Turkey - March 2007 [10] - Web interface for Microsoft Team Foundation Server
- Tellme Networks, Inc., California, USA - March 2007 - Voice services, Estm. $800 million [11]
- Medstory, Inc, California, USA - February 2007 [12] - Health care search technology
- Secured Dimensions, Israel - January 2007 - Secured Software Provisioning, $10M[citation needed].
[edit] 2006
- Colloquis Inc. New York, New York and Sunnyvale, California - October 2006 [13] - Intelligent agents
- DesktopStandard Corporation, Portsmouth, New Hampshire - September 2006 [14] - Group policy-based enterprise desktop management
- Gteko, Ra’anana, Israel - September 2006 [15] - Networking and support software manufacturer
- Azzyxi, Washington - July 2006 [16]
- Winternals, Austin, Texas - July 2006 - System recover and data protection tools, Sysinternals freeware tools provider [17]
- Softricity, Inc. Boston, Massachusetts, USA - July 2006, Application Virtualization and Application Streaming
- iView Multimedia, London, England - June 2006 - Digital Asset Management software for Macintosh and Windows [18]
- Whale Communications - May 2006 - Firewall-Specialist, $75 million [19]
- DeepMetrix Corporation, Quebec, Canada - May 2006 - Business intelligence solutions
- Massive Inc. - May 2006 - Ingame-Advertising [20]
- AssetMetrix Corporation, Ontario, Canada - April 2006 - Asset-management and Business intelligence
- Lionhead Studios - April 2006 - Games Developer [21]
- ProClarity - April 2006 - Business-Intelligence-Specialist [22]
- Vexcel, Boulder, Colorado - March 2006 - Satellite Imaging [23]
- Apptimum, Inc, Florida, USA - March 2006 - PC Settings/User State Migration Software [24]
- StringBean Target, Maryland, USA - March 2006 - iSCSI SAN solution [25]
- Onfolio, Massacheussets, USA - March 2006 - Internet search and information management provider
- MotionBridge, Paris, France - February 2006 - Search technology for mobile operators & the mobile Internet
- DynaComm i:filter product from FutureSoft, Houston, Texas - February 2006 - Only the web filtering product
Additional acquisitions listed here by product group: http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2006/05/microsoft_vc_su.html
[edit] 2005
- GeoTango, Toronto, Canada - December 23, 2005 - 3D mapping and visualization GeoTango
- UMT, New York, USA - December 2005 - Project & portfolio management software
- FolderShare, Austin, Texas - November 4, 2005 - Remote Access and Synchronization Software [26]
- MediaStreams, Switzerland - November 3, 2005 - VoIP Software [27]
- Certain technologies from Unveil Technologies Inc., October 2005 - For Microsoft Speech Server
- Alacris, Ottawa, Canada - September 2005 - Identity and Access Management Solutions Provider
- Teleo - VoIP [28]
- FrontBridge Inc., California - July 2005 - Email Protection Services [29]
- MessageCast Inc. May 2005 - Automated alerting and messaging services
- Groove Networks Inc., Beverly, Massachusetts - March 10, 2005 - Collaboration software , $120 million [30]
- ContentGuard (jointly acquired) - March 2005 - DRM technologies
- FRx Software Corporation - March 2005 - Financial analytic applications
- Sybari Software Inc., East Northport, New York - February 8, 2005 - Anti-virus, anti-spam, and content-filtering add-ons - between $163 million and $182 million [31]
- Certain technology from En'tegrate Software LLC - February 2005 - Axapta-related technology
[edit] 2004
- GIANT Company Software, Inc., New York City, New York - December 16, 2004 - Spyware protection, detection and removal tool[32]
- Lookout Software LLC, Palo Alto, California – July 19, 2004 - E-mail and desktop search - $10 million [33]
- Accounting products from Encore Business Solutions, Inc. - April 2004
- ActiveViews Inc. - April 2004 - Ad hoc reporting product
[edit] 2003
- Creature House Ltd., Hong Kong – November 6, 2003 - Natural media drawing software
- RAV Antivirus technology from Romanian company GECAD - June 11, 2003 [34]
- PlaceWare Inc., Mountain View, California – May 1, 2003 - Online Web conferencing service - $200 million [35]
- Connectix, San Mateo, California - February 2003 - Virtual PC and Virtual Server [36]
[edit] 2002
- Vicinity Corp., Palo Alto, California- October 2002 - Internet-based marketing infrastructure services - $105 million [37]
- Rare Ltd., United Kingdom - September 29, 2002 - Video games - $375 million [38]
- Sales Management Systems, USA - May 2002 - Provider of point-of-sale software. [39]
- Navision Software A/S, Vedbaek, Denmark – May 21, 2002 - Business applications, ERP - $1.45 billion [40]
[edit] 2001
- iCommunicate, Alexandria, Virginia -- May, 2001 -- Business application for bCentral and later Microsoft CRM [41]
- Ensemble Studios, Dallas, Texas- May 3, 2001 – Video games [42]
- NCompass Labs Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - April 30, 2001- Web content-management solutions - $36 million [43]
- Great Plains Software Inc., Fargo, North Dakota - April, 2001 - Business applications, accounting - $1.4 billion [44]
[edit] 2000
- Digital Anvil Inc., Austin, Texas - December 5, 2000 – Video games [45]
- Pacific Microsonics Inc., Union City, California - September 18, 2000 - Digital music software [46]
- MongoMusic, San Mateo, California - September 13, 2000 - Online service with advanced music-searching capabilities- $65 million [47]
- NetGames USA, Overland Park, Kansas - July 12, 2000 - Scoring, matchmaking and other enhancements for retail and Web-based games [48]
- Bungie Software Products Corp., Chicago, Illinois - June 19, 2000 - Action oriented computer and video games - Approx. $38 million[49]
- Driveoff.Com, Littleton, Colorado - June 12, 2000 – Online car sales [50]
- Peach Network LLC, Tel Aviv, Israel- February 29, 2000 - Enhanced television services for digital television [51]
[edit] 1999
- Entropic Research Laboratory Inc., Cambridge, UK and Washington DC - October 29, 1999 - Speech recognition software - $90 million [52]
- Softway Systems Inc. San Francisco, California - September 17, 1999 – Customer interoperability solutions [53]
- Visio Corp., Seattle, Washington - September 15, 1999 – Enterprise-wide business diagramming and technical drawing software - $1.4 billion [54]
- STNC Enterprises, Suffolk, UK - July 21, 1999 - Internet access solutions for wireless products [55]
- Sendit AB, Stockholm, Sweden - July 1, 1999 - Mobile Internet solutions - $130 million [56]
- OmniBrowse Inc. Bellevue, Washington, - June 15, 1999 - Applications for wireless handheld devices - $400 million [57]
- ShadowFactor Software Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - June 7, 1999 – Video games - $120 million [58]
- Jump Networks Inc., Ithaca, New York - April 26, 1999 - Web-based calendar services [59]
- Access Software Inc. Hialeah, Florida - April 19, 1999 - sports simulation software and adventure games [60]
- CompareNet Inc., San Francisco, California - March 4, 1999 - Online comparison-shopping service [61]
- Numinous Technology, Inc., Seattle, Washington – March 29, 1999 - Internet graphics, digital video management and traditional printing applications [62]
- FASA Interactive Technologies, Chicago, Illinois – January 7, 1999 - Video game division of long-ailing board game and role-playing game vendor
- ZOOMIT Corp, Toronto - July 7, 1999 - meta-directory products [63]
[edit] 1998
- LinkExchange Inc., San Francisco, California - November 5, 1998 - advertising network - $250 million [64]
- Valence Research Inc., Beaverton, Oregon - August 25, 1998 - Advanced clustering software [65]
- MESA Group Inc., Newton, Massachusetts - April 28, 1998 - Messaging and applications migration products [66]
- Firefly Network Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts - April 9, 1998 - Personalization software - $40 million [67]
- Flash Communications - February 23, 1998 - Messaging client/server product [68]
[edit] 1997
- Vxtreme Inc., Sunnyvale, California - August 5, 1997 - Web Theater technology - $75 million [69]
- LinkAge Software Inc. Toronto, Ontario, Canada - June 30, 1997 - Connectivity solutions for e-mail software - $30 million [70]
- Cooper & Peters Inc., Boulder, Colorado - June 13, 1997 - Object-oriented user-interface frameworks and applications - $20 million [71]
- Dimension X, San Francisco, California - May 7, 1997 - Multimedia technology [72]
- WebTV Networks Inc. Mountain View, California- April 6, 1997 - Enhanced TV services using Internet and digital technologies - $425 million [73]
- Intersé Corp., Huntington, West Virginia - March 4, 1997 - Software for analyzing user activity on World Wide Web sites [74]
- Hotmail Corp., Sunnyvale, California, - January 3, 1997 - Webmail service - $395 million [75]
[edit] 1996
- NetCarta Corp., Scotts Valley, California - December 10, 1996 - Web-site management software - $20 million [76]
- ResNova Software Inc., Huntington Beach, California - November 20, 1996 - Web server products [77]
- eShop Inc., San Mateo, California - June 11, 1996 - Internet commerce software [78]
- EXOS Inc., Woburn, Massachusetts - April 15, 1996 - Force feedback technology for game control devices [79]
- Vermeer Technologies Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts - January 16, 1996 - Visual, standards-based Web publishing tools - $130 million [80]
- Colusa Software Inc., Berkeley, California - March 12, 1996 - Object-oriented programming software for the Internet [81]
[edit] 1995
- Bruce Artwick Organization Ltd., formerly subLOGIC Corporation, Champaign, Illinois, - December 12, 1995 - Entertainment software (Flight Simulator), 3-D graphics packages - [82]
- Blue Ribbon Soundworks Ltd, Atlanta, Georgia - October 16, 1995 - Interactive music software for games [83]
- RenderMorphics Ltd. - February 23, 1995 - RealityLab software for 3d graphics, later rebadged by Microsoft as "Direct3D 3.0" [84]
[edit] 1994
- One Tree Software. - November 15, 1994 - Version Control software, SourceSafe [85]
- Softimage Inc., Montreal, Quebec, Canada - June 28, 1994 - High-end 3-D animation software - sold later to Avid Technology Inc. on June 15, 1998 [86]
[edit] 1992
- Fox Software, Perrysburg, Ohio – 1992 – Database software - $173 million
[edit] 1991
[edit] 1987
[edit] 1986
- Dynamical Systems Research Ltd, Berkeley, California – 1986 - Multitasking operating system - $1.5 million[87]
[edit] See also
List of assets owned by Microsoft Corporation
[edit] Notes and references
[edit] External links
- Microsoft's own list of acquired companies - Dates back only to June, 1994.
