- 1989
- Santa Cruz Operation, UNIX, Server operating system - 20% stake
- 1990
- 1991
- 1992
- 1993
- 1994
- DreamWorks Interactive, , Multimedia titles - $30 million (50% stake)
- Dreamworks SKG, , Movies, music and entertainment - not disclosed
- One Tree, SourceSafe, Source code management; used in Visual Basic and Visual Studio - not disclosed
- Stac Electronics, producer of Stacker - $39.9M
- UUNet, , Internet network infrastructure - 13% stake (bought by MFS in 1996)
- June 28: SoftImage, High-level 3D animation - $177M
- November 1: NextBase?
- November 15: One Tree Software
- 1995
- Bruce Artwick Organization, Flight Simulator, Games software - not disclosed
- Individual Inc., iNews, Customized business news services - 7.4% stake
- MSNBC, MSNBC, On-line news - $500 million
- Netwise, producer of Transaccess, Linking databases to mainframes
- RenderMorphics? Ltd., Reality Lab, 3D graphics for games - not disclosed
- February 23: RenderMorphics?, producer of RealityLab?, become the bases of Direct3D
- July 10: SNMP Technology From Network Managers
- October 16: The Blue Ribbon SoundWorks?, Ltd.
- November 6: Interoperability Technology, Expertise From Netwise Inc.
- December 12: Bruce Artwick Organization Ltd.
- 1996
- Aha software, producer of Smart Ink and InkWriter? ( Handwriting recognition )
- Aspect Engineering, dbWeb, Internet Tools for the Web - not disclosed
- Atomic Games, World at War, etc., Games software - publishing titles
- Black Entertainment Television, MSBET, On-line news & entertainment - not disclosed (joint ownership with BET)
- Colusa, OmniVM, Java-like object-oriented software - not disclosed
- Electric Gravity, Internet Gaming Zone, On-line gaming environment - not disclosed
- eShop, , Secure Internet retailing & payment system for Merchant Server. - not disclosed
- Exos, Force Feedback, Joystick and input devices - not disclosed
- NetCarta?, Web Mapper (now Site Analyst), Web site management - $20 million
- Panorama Software Systems, , Multidimensional database
- ResNova? Software, WebforOne? and Boulevard, Mac Web server Software company - not disclosed
- SingleTrac? Entertainmnet, Twisted Metal, Game software - not disclosed
- VDONet Corp., VDO Wave technology, Video steaming - 5% stake
- Vermeer, Vermeer (renamed Frontpage), Web site editor & management - $80 to $130 million
- Rainbow America, Fury 3, Games software - publishing titles
- December: Proginet Corp, TransAccess?, Proginet Oasis, Linking Web applications to mainframes - not disclosed (10% stake)
- January 16: Vermeer Technologies Inc.
- March 12: Colusa and Aspect
- April 8: aha! software
- April 15: EXOS Inc.
- June 11: eShop Inc.
- June 17: Electric Gravity Inc.
- October 29: Panorama Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
- November 20: Leading Macintosh Web Server Technology
- December 10: NetCarta?
- 1997
- Apple Computer, MacOS, Computer company - $150 million (stake)
- Comcast Corp, , Cable company, QVC - $1 billion (10% stake)
- Coopers & Peters, EyeOpener?, Java and Smalltalk tools, add to MS AFC - not disclosed
- Dimension X, Liquid Motion, Interactive software, key java tools - not disclosed
- Interse Corp., Market Focus (now Usage Analyst), Web site analysis (incorporated in MS Site Server) - not disclosed
- `LinkAge Software Inc., NotesConnector? and email software, Support Microsoft Exchange on e-mail in enterprise computing - not disclosed
- Navitel, , Internet telephone software to integrate into Windows CE & WebTV - not disclosed (minority stake)
- Progressive Networks Inc, RealAudio?, Audio/Video streaming - 10% stake
- Trados, producer of Translators Workbench, Multilingual document production facilities for software developers. - 20% stake
- Vxtreme, , Video streaming - $75 million
- Web TV Networks, , Internet access device - $425 million
- Wildfire Communications, producer of Wildfire, Voice recognition integrated into Microsoft's Outlook e-mail - Equity investment (undisclosed amount)
- 1998
- 1999
- 2000
- June 19: Bungie, fine maker of games, such as Marathon and Halo.
- 2001
- April: GreatPlains?, maker of e-business solutions software
- 2002
- 2003
- Connectix, software for machine virtualization
- PlaceWare?, maker of realtime collaboration software (similar to WebEx?)
- 2004
Is it really reasonable to put much effort in creating such a list here? Just look at the following sources: Microsoft acquired a lot of companies. The list gets even longer if those are considered too, in which Microsoft only invested.
You have a very good point. I didn't find a list on the Microsoft site, only partial ones on divers sites. At least, I have get what I want. Thanks you.
Source: http://www.microsoft.com/msft/invest.htm
Source: http://www.netaction.org/msoft/world/table.html
Source: http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~kkoster/microsoft/financial.html ( BrokenLink )
Source: http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/catalog/catalog.shtml ( BrokenLink )
Microsoft Acquisition History