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Microsoft's headquarters are inRedmond, Washington.

Microsoftis an American multinationalcomputertechnology corporation based inRedmond, Washington.Bill

GatesandPaul Allenfounded the company inAlbuquerque,New Mexicoon April 4, 1975 after Gates went on

leave fromHarvard University.[1]Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems(MITS), the company that

created theAltair 8800microcomputer, was based in Albuquerque. Gates visited MITS to show them his

implementation of theBASICprogramming language using their system.[2]Microsoft moved its headquarters

toBellevue,Washington on January 1, 1979, and then to Redmond on February 26, 1986, where it still

remains.[3]The company'sinitial public offeringwas held on March 14, 1986. The stock, which eventually

closed atUS$27.75 a share, peaked at $29.25 a share shortly after the market opened for trading. At the time,

Gates owned 45%[4]of the company's 24.7 million outstanding shares, and Allen owned roughly 25% of the

shares. After the offering, Gates was worth $233.9 million and Microsoft had a market capitalization of

$519.777 million.[5]Microsoft has acquired 128 companies, purchased stakes in 60 companies, and made

24divestments.Of the companies that Microsoft has acquired, 99 were based in the United States. Microsoft

has not released the financial details for most of these mergers and acquisitions.

Microsoft's first acquisition wasForethoughton June 29, 1987, which was founded in 1983 and developed

apresentation programthat would later be known asMicrosoft PowerPoint.[6]On December 31, 1997,

Microsoft acquiredHotmailfor $500 million, its largest acquisition at the time, and integrated Hotmail into

itsMSNgroup of services.[7]Hotmail, a freewebmailservice founded in 1996 byJack SmithandSabeer

Bhatia,[8]had more than 8.5 million subscribers earlier that month.[9]Microsoft acquiredSeattle-basedVisio

Corporationon 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.[10]The company developed the
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diagrammingapplication software,Visio, which was integrated into Microsoft's product line asMicrosoft

Visioafter its acquisition. On July 12, 2002, Microsoft purchased Navision for $1.33 billion. The company,

which developed the technology for theMicrosoft Dynamics NAVenterprise resource planningsoftware, was

integrated into Microsoft as a new division namedMicrosoft Business Solutions,[11]later renamed toMicrosoft

Dynamics.[12]Microsoft purchasedaQuantive,an advertising company, on August 13, 2007 for $6.333 billion,

Microsoft's largest acquisition. Before the acquisition, aQuantive was ranked 14th in terms of revenue

amongadvertising agenciesworldwide. aQuantive had three subsidiaries at the time of the acquisition:Avenue

A/Razorfish,one of the world's largestdigital agencies,[13]Atlas Solutions, and DRIVE Performance

Solutions.[14]Microsoft acquired theNorwegianenterprise searchcompanyFast Search & Transferon April 25,

2008 for $1.191 billion to boost its search technology.[15]

Since Microsoft's first acquisition in 1987, it has purchased an average of six companies a year. The company

has purchased more than ten companies a year since 2005, and acquired 18 firms in 2006, the most in a single

year, includingOnfolio,Lionhead Studios,Massive Incorporated,ProClarity,WinternalsSoftware,

andColloquis.Microsoft has made four acquisitions worth over one billion dollars: aQuantive, Fast Search &

Transfer, Navision, and Visio Corporation. Microsoft has also purchased several stakes valued more than a

billion dollars. It obtained an 11.5% stake inComcastfor $1 billion, a 22.98% stake inTelewest

Communicationsfor $2.263 billion, and a 3% stake inAT&Tfor $5 billion. Among Microsoft's divestments, in

which parts of the company are sold to another company, onlyExpedia, Inc.was sold for more than a billion

dollars;USA Networkspurchased the company on February 5, 2002 for $1.372 billion. On August 17, 2006,

Microsoft acquired 7.92% of its owncommon stockfor $20 billion.

Contents

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1 Acquisitions

2 Stakes

3 Divestitures

4 Notes

5 References

6 External links

[edit]Acquisitions

Date Company Business CountryValue (USD)

References

June 29, 1987 Forethought Computer softwareUnited

States [16]

March 31, 1991 Consumers Software Software Canada $20,500,000
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June 29, 1992 Fox Software PC database softwareUnited

States$174,800,000 [18]

February 28, 1994 SoftimageWholesale 3-Dvisualization software

Canada $139,000,000 [19]

September 27, 1994 Altamira Software SoftwareUnited

States

[20]

November 1, 1994 NextBase SoftwareUnited

States [21]

November 15, 1994 One Tree Software SoftwareUnited

States [22]

February 23, 1995 RenderMorphics 3D graphics hardwareUnited

States [23]

July 10, 1995 Network Managers Systems designUnited

States [24]

October 17, 1995Blue RibbonSoundworks

SoftwareUnited

States [25]

November 6, 1995 Netwise Computer softwareUnited

States [26]

December 12, 1995Bruce ArtwickOrganization

ProgrammingUnited

States [27]

January 16, 1996VermeerTechnologies

SoftwareUnited

States [28]

March 6, 1996VGA-AnimationSoftware Div[note 1]

Software Germany [29]

March 12, 1996 Colusa Software SoftwareUnited

States [30]

April 16, 1996 Exos Video game controllersUnited

States

[31]

April 23, 1996Aspect SoftwareEngineering

Computer softwareUnited

States$14,150,000 [32]

June 11, 1996 eShop SoftwareUnited

States [33]

June 17, 1996 Electric Gravity Electronic gamesUnited

States [34]

November 1, 1996Panorama SoftwareSys-On-Line[note 2]

Software Canada [35]

February 3, 1997 NetCarta Internet softwareUnited

States

$20,000,000 [36]

April 30, 1997 WebTV Networks Internet serviceprovider

UnitedStates

$425,000,000 [37]

May 7, 1997 Dimension X Java-based platformsUnited

States [38]

June 13, 1997 Cooper & Peters ProgrammingUnited

States [39]

June 30, 1997 LinkAge Software Internet software United [40]
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development States

August 5, 1997 VXtreme Internet video softwareUnited

States [41]

December 31, 1997 Hotmail Internet softwareUnited

States$500,000,000 [42]

April 15, 1998 Firefly Relationshipmanagement software

UnitedStates

$40,000,000 [43]

April 28, 1998 MESA Group Data sharing softwareUnited

States [44]

August 25, 1998 Valence Research Internet softwareUnited

States [45]

November 6, 1998 LinkExchangeInternet advertisingnetwork

UnitedStates

$265,000,000 [46]

January 11, 1999 FASA Interactive Computer gamesoftware

UnitedStates

[47]

March 4, 1999 CompareNet Shopping onlineUnited

States

[48]

March 26, 1999NuminousTechnologies

SoftwareUnited

States [49]

April 27, 1999Interactive Objects-Digital

Web music softwareUnited

States [50]

April 30, 1999 Jump NetworksInternet serviceprovider

UnitedStates

[51]

June 7, 1999ShadowFactorSoftware

Wholesale computersoftware

UnitedStates

[52]

June 15, 1999 Omnibrowse Internet softwareUnited

States [53]

June 28, 1999 IntrinsaDefect detectionsoftware

UnitedStates

$58,900,000 [54]

July 1, 1999 Sendit Application software Sweden $125,420,000[55]

July 7, 1999 Zoomit Encryption softwareUnited

States [56]

July 21, 1999 STNC Community softwareUnited

Kingdom [57]

September 19, 1999 Softway SystemsComputerprogramming

UnitedStates

[58]

October 29, 1999 Entropic Software

United

States

[59]

January 7, 2000 Visio CorporationWholesale drawingsoftware

UnitedStates

$1,375,000,000 [60]

February 29, 2000 Peach Networks Digital TV services Israel [61]

March 17, 2000 TravelscapeInternet serviceprovider

UnitedStates

$89,750,000 [62]

April 12, 2000 Titus Cable television United $944,800,000
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5/14

Communications States

June 19, 2000 Bungie Software Computer softwareUnited

States [64]

July 12, 2000 NetGames SoftwareUnited

States [65]

September 13, 2000 MongoMusic Online music searchengine

UnitedStates

$65,000,000 [66]

September 27, 2000 Pacific MicrosonicsDigital audiotechnology

UnitedStates

[67]

March 17, 2001 VacationspotInternet serviceprovider

UnitedStates

$70,850,000 [68]

April 5, 2001 Great Plains SoftwareBusiness managementsoftware

UnitedStates

$939,884,000 [69]

May 2, 2001IntellisolInternational

Software Canada [70]

May 31, 2001 NCompass Labs Internet software Canada $36,000,000 [71]

June 21, 2001 Maximal Intelligence Software Israel $20,000,000[72]

July 1, 2001 Yupi Online Spanish PortalUnited

States [73]

January 3, 2002 Korea Telecom TelecommunicationsSouth

Korea$500,000,000 [74]

March 11, 2002Classic CustomVacations

Travel agencyUnited

States$78,000,000 [75]

May 22, 2002Sales ManagementSystems

SoftwareUnited

States [76]

July 12, 2002 Navision Software programmingDenmark

$1,330,000,000 [77]

July 29, 2002 Mobilocity Computer consultingUnited

States [78]

September 10, 2002 XDegrees Security softwareUnited

States [79]

September 24, 2002 RareSoftware and videogames

UnitedKingdom

$375,000,000 [80]

December 13, 2002 VicinityOnline enterpriselocation

UnitedStates

$95,849,000 [81]

February 25, 2003 Connectix SoftwareUnited

States [82]

March 3, 2003 DCG Internet software Australia

[83]

April 30, 2003 PlaceWare Web conferencingUnited

States$200,000,000 [84]

May 27, 2003 G.A. Sullivan Information technologyUnited

States [85]

June 10, 2003 GeCAD Software Antivirus technology Romania [86]

August 29, 2003 3DOCo-High Heat Software United $450,000 [87]
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IP assetsUnited

States [88]

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States [89]

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[90]

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Anti-spywareUnited

States [91]

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States [92]

April 9, 2005 Groove Networks Community softwareUnited

States [93]

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States$7,000,000 [94]

May 31, 2005Tsinghua-Shenxun-Cert Asts Certain assets China $15,000,000

[95]

June 21, 2005 Sybari Software SoftwareUnited

States [96]

August 29, 2005 Teleo VoIPUnited

States [97]

August 31, 2005FrontBridgeTechnologies

Email protectionUnited

States [98]

September 19, 2005 AlacrisCertificate managementsoftware

UnitedStates

[99]

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January 19, 2006UMT-Software andIP Assets

SoftwareUnited

States [102]

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States [104]

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States [105]

March 7, 2006 Onfolio Internet softwareUnited

States [106]

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[107]

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May 4, 2006 Massive Incorporated Video game advertisingUnited

States [109]

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States [110]
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January 22, 2008 Calista Technologies SoftwareUnited

States [134]

February 7, 2008 Caligari Corporation SoftwareUnited

States [135]

February 27, 2008 YaData Software Israel

[136]

March 14, 2008 RaptAdvertising yieldmanagement software

UnitedStates

[137]

March 19, 2008 KomokuRootkit securitysoftware

UnitedStates

$5,000,000 [138]

March 31, 2008 90 Degree SoftwareBusiness intelligencesoftware

Canada [139]

April 14, 2008 Farecast Online search softwareUnited

States$75,000,000 [140]

April 15, 2008 DangerMobile Internet

software

United

States

$500,000,000 [141]

April 25, 2008Fast Search &Transfer

Enterprise search Norway $1,191,000,000[142]

May 26, 2008 Kidaro SoftwareUnited

States [143]

June 4, 2008 Quadreon Software Belgium [144]

June 18, 2008 Navic Networks Management softwareUnited

States [145]

June 26, 2008 Mobicomp Mobile applications Portugal [146]

August 11, 2008 Powerset Semantic SearchUnited

States [147]

September 16, 2008 DATAllegro Data softwareUnited

States [148]

September 28, 2008 Greenfield OnlineSearch and e-commerceservices

UnitedStates

$486,000,000 [149]

May 7, 2009 BigParkInteractive onlinegaming

Canada [150]

September 22, 2009InteractiveSupercomputing

SoftwareUnited

States[151]

December 10, 2009 Opalis Software Software Canada

December 10, 2009 Sentillion, Inc.

Identity and Access

Management Softwarefor Healthcare

UnitedStates[153]

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June 15, 1989Santa Cruz Operation[note3]

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