MICROSOFT ACQUISITIONS
Acquisitions
Number Date Company Business Country Value (USD) References
1 July 30, 1987 Forethought, Inc. Computer software United States 14,000,000 [22]
2 March 31, 1991 Consumers Software Software Canada — [23]
3 June 29, 1992 Fox Software PC database software United States — [24]
4 February 28, 1994 Softimage Wholesale 3-D visualization software Canada — [25]
5 September 27, 1994 Altamira Software Software United States — [26]
6 November 1, 1994 NextBase Software United States — [27]
7 November 15, 1994 One Tree Software Software United States — [28]
8 February 23, 1995 RenderMorphics 3D graphics hardware United States — [29]
9 July 10, 1995 Network Managers Systems design United Kingdom — [30]
10 October 17, 1995 The Blue Ribbon SoundWorks Software United States — [31]
11 November 6, 1995 Netwise Computer software United States — [32]
12 December 12, 1995 Bruce Artwick Organization Programming United States — [33]
13 January 16, 1996 Vermeer Technologies Software United States 133,000,000 [34]
14 March 6, 1996 VGA-Animation Software Div[note 1] Software Germany — [35]
15 March 12, 1996 Colusa Software Software United States — [36]
16 April 16, 1996 Exos Video game controllers United States — [37]
17 April 23, 1996 Aspect Software Engineering Computer software United States 14,150,000 [38]
18 June 11, 1996 eShop Software United States — [39]
19 June 17, 1996 Electric Gravity Electronic games United States — [40]
20 November 1, 1996 Panorama Software Sys-On-Line[note 2] Software Canada — [41]
21 February 3, 1997 NetCarta Internet software United States 20,000,000 [42]
22 March 3, 1997 Interse Internet software United States — [43]
23 April 30, 1997 WebTV Networks Internet service provider United States 425,000,000 [44]
24 May 7, 1997 Dimension X Java-based platforms United States — [45]
25 June 13, 1997 Cooper & Peters Programming United States — [46]
26 June 30, 1997 LinkAge Software Internet software development Canada — [47]
27 August 5, 1997 VXtreme Internet video software United States — [48]
28 December 31, 1997 Hotmail Internet software United States 500,000,000 [49]
29 February 23, 1998 Flash Communications Enterprise instant messaging software United States — [50][51]
30 April 15, 1998 Firefly Relationship management software United States 40,000,000 [52]
31 April 28, 1998 MESA Group Data sharing software United States — [53]
32 August 25, 1998 Valence Research Internet software United States — [54]
33 November 6, 1998 LinkExchange Internet advertising network United States 265,000,000 [55]
34 January 11, 1999 FASA Interactive Computer game software United States — [56]
35 March 4, 1999 CompareNet Shopping online United States — [57]
36 March 26, 1999 Numinous Technologies Software United States — [58]
37 April 27, 1999 Interactive Objects-Digital Web music software United States — [59]
38 April 30, 1999 Jump Networks Internet service provider United States — [60]
39 June 7, 1999 ShadowFactor Software Wholesale computer software United States — [61]
40 June 15, 1999 Omnibrowse Internet software United States — [62]
41 June 28, 1999 Intrinsa Defect detection software United States 58,900,000 [63]
42 July 1, 1999 Sendit Application software Sweden 125,420,000 [64]
43 July 7, 1999 Zoomit Encryption software Canada — [65]
44 July 21, 1999 STNC Community software United Kingdom — [66]
45 September 19, 1999 Softway Systems Computer programming United States — [67]
46 October 29, 1999 Entropic Software United States — [68]
47 January 7, 2000 Visio Corporation Wholesale drawing software United States 1,375,000,000 [69]
48 February 29, 2000 Peach Networks Digital TV services Israel — [70]
49 March 17, 2000 Travelscape Internet service provider United States 89,750,000 [71]
50 April 12, 2000 Titus Communications Cable television United States 944,800,000 [72]
51 June 19, 2000 Bungie Computer software United States — [73]
52 July 12, 2000 NetGames Software United States — [74]
53 September 13, 2000 MongoMusic Online music search engine United States 65,000,000 [75]
54 September 27, 2000 Pacific Microsonics Digital audio technology United States — [76]
55 March 17, 2001 Vacationspot Internet service provider United States 70,850,000 [77]
56 April 5, 2001 Great Plains Software Business management software United States 939,884,000 [78]
57 May 2, 2001 Intellisol International Software Canada — [79]
58 May 31, 2001 NCompass Labs Internet software Canada 36,000,000 [80]
59 June 21, 2001 Maximal Innovative Intelligence Software Israel 20,000,000 [81]
60 July 1, 2001 Yupi Online Spanish Portal United States — [82]
61 March 11, 2002 Classic Custom Vacations Travel agency United States 78,000,000 [83]
62 May 22, 2002 Sales Management Systems Software United States — [84]
63 July 12, 2002 Navision Software programming Denmark 1,330,000,000 [85]
64 July 29, 2002 Mobilocity Computer consulting United States — [86]
65 September 10, 2002 XDegrees Security software United States — [87]
66 September 24, 2002 Rare Software and video games United Kingdom 375,000,000 [88]
67 December 13, 2002 Vicinity Online enterprise location United States 95,849,000 [89]
68 February 25, 2003 Connectix Software United States — [90]
69 March 3, 2003 DCG Internet software Australia — [91]
70 April 30, 2003 PlaceWare Web conferencing United States 200,000,000 [92]
71 May 27, 2003 G.A. Sullivan Information technology United States — [93]
72 June 10, 2003 GeCAD Software Antivirus technology Romania — [94]
73 August 29, 2003 3DO Co-High Heat Baseball Software United States 450,000 [95]
74 April 22, 2004 Encore Bus Solutions-IP Asts IP assets United States — [96]
75 April 26, 2004 ActiveViews Reporting systems United States — [97]
76 July 16, 2004 Lookout Software Personal search tool United States — [98]
77 December 16, 2004 GIANT Company Software Anti-spyware United States — [99]
78 March 2, 2005 en'tegrate Software United States — [100]
79 April 9, 2005 Groove Networks Community software United States — [101]
80 May 11, 2005 MessageCast Messaging United States 7,000,000 [102]
81 May 31, 2005 Tsinghua-Shenxun-Cert Asts Certain assets China 15,000,000 [103]
82 June 21, 2005 Sybari Software Software United States — [104]
83 August 29, 2005 Teleo VoIP United States — [105]
84 August 31, 2005 FrontBridge Technologies Email protection United States — [106]
85 September 19, 2005 Alacris Certificate management software United States — [107]
86 November 3, 2005 media-streams.com Software Switzerland — [108]
87 November 17, 2005 5th Finger Mobile Australia 3,153,000 [109]
88 January 19, 2006 UMT-Software and IP Assets Software United States — [110]
89 February 13, 2006 MotionBridge Search France 17,858,000 [111]
90 February 13, 2006 Seadragon Software Software United States — [112]
91 March 7, 2006 Apptimum Software United States — [113]
92 March 7, 2006 Onfolio Internet software United States — [114]
93 April 6, 2006 Lionhead Studios Video games United Kingdom — [115]
94 April 26, 2006 AssetMetrix Enterprise software Canada — [116]
95 May 4, 2006 Massive Incorporated Video game advertising United States — [117]
96 May 4, 2006 Vexcel Mapping software United States — [118]
97 May 15, 2006 DeepMetrix Web log analysis United States — [119]
98 June 6, 2006 ProClarity Analysis software United States — [120]
99 June 27, 2006 iView Multimedia Digital asset management United Kingdom — [121]
100 July 17, 2006 Softricity application virtualization software United States — [122]
101 July 18, 2006 Winternals Software Software United States — [123]
102 July 26, 2006 Whale Communications Applications Israel — [124]
103 September 26, 2006 Gteko Applications Israel — [125]
104 October 2, 2006 DesktopStandard Applications United States — [126]
105 October 12, 2006 Colloquis Natural language software United States — [127]
106 March 9, 2007 Medstory Internet search engine United States — [128]
107 March 26, 2007 devBiz Business Solutions Software tools United States — [129]
108 May 3, 2007 ScreenTonic Advertising and marketing France — [130]
109 May 3, 2007 Tellme Networks Mobile phone software United States — [131]
110 May 9, 2007 SoftArtisans Business Intelligence software United States — [132]
111 June 4, 2007 Engyro Information technology United States — [133]
112 June 7, 2007 Stratature Master Data Management United States — [134]
113 June 29, 2007 Savvis Inc-Data Centers Networking United States 200,000,000 [135]
114 August 13, 2007 AdECN Ad Exchange United States — [136]
115 August 13, 2007 aQuantive Digital marketing United States 6,333,000,000 [137]
116 October 2, 2007 Jellyfish.com Search engine United States — [138]
117 October 5, 2007 Parlano Enterprise messaging software United States — [139]
118 October 29, 2007 Global Care Solutions-Assets Assets Thailand — [140]
119 November 1, 2007 HOB Business Solutions Information technology Denmark — [141]
120 November 15, 2007 Musiwave Mobile music entertainment France — [142]
121 December 12, 2007 Multimap.com Mapping United Kingdom — [143]
122 January 22, 2008 Calista Technologies Software United States — [144]
123 February 7, 2008 Caligari Corporation Software United States — [145]
124 February 27, 2008 YaData Software Israel — [146]
125 March 14, 2008 Rapt Advertising yield management software United States — [147]
126 March 19, 2008 Komoku Rootkit security software United States 5,000,000 [148]
127 March 31, 2008 90 Degree Software Business intelligence software Canada — [149]
128 April 14, 2008 Farecast Online search software United States 75,000,000 [150]
129 April 15, 2008 Danger Mobile Internet software United States 500,000,000 [151]
130 April 25, 2008 Fast Search & Transfer Enterprise search[clarification needed] Norway 1,191,000,000 [152]
131 May 26, 2008 Kidaro Software United States — [153]
132 June 4, 2008 Quadreon Software Belgium — [154]
133 June 18, 2008 Navic Networks Management software United States — [155]
134 June 26, 2008 Mobicomp Mobile applications Portugal — [156]
135 August 11, 2008 Powerset Semantic Search United States — [157]
136 September 16, 2008 DATAllegro Data software United States — [158]
137 September 28, 2008 Greenfield Online Search and e-commerce services United States 486,000,000 [159]
138 March 1, 2009 3DV Systems Developer of ZCam, a time-of-flight camera Israel 35,000,000 [160]
139 May 7, 2009 BigPark Interactive online gaming Canada —
140 June 1, 2009 Rosetta Biosoftware Bioinformatics solutions for life science research United States — [161]
141 September 22, 2009 Interactive Supercomputing Software United States — [162]
142 December 10, 2009 Opalis Software Software Canada — [163]
143 December 10, 2009 Sentillion, Inc. Identity and Access Management Software for Healthcare United States — [164]
144 October 6, 2010 AVIcode, Inc. .Net monitoring technology United States — [165]
145 October 29, 2010 Canesta, Inc. 3-D sensing technology United States — [166]
146 May 10, 2011 Skype Technologies Telecommunications Luxembourg 8,500,000,000 [167]
147 June 7, 2011 Prodiance Software United States — [168][169]
148 November 22, 2011 Videosurf Video search United States 100,000,000 [170][171]
149 June 25, 2012 Yammer Social networking United States 1,200,000,000 [172]
150 July 9, 2012 Perceptive Pixel Multi touch hardware United States — [173]
151 October 4, 2012 PhoneFactor Two-factor authentication system United States — [174]
152 October 16, 2012 StorSimple Cloud-storage appliance vendor United States — [175]
153 October 17, 2012 MarketingPilot Marketing automation firm United States — [176]
154 January 3, 2013 id8 Group R2 Studios Home automation United States — [177]
155 February 2, 2013 Pando Networks Peer-to-peer (P2P) media distribution United States — [178]
156 March 4, 2013 MetricsHub Cloud monitoring United States — [179]
157 March 19, 2013 Netbreeze Social analytics Switzerland — [180]
158 June 3, 2013 InRelease Release management Canada — [181]
159 September 2, 2013 Nokia mobile phones unit Mobile phones, smartphones Finland 7,200,000,000 [182]
160 October 12, 2013 HLW Software RDP applications Austria — [183]
161 October 25, 2013 Apiphany API management United States — [184]
162 January 7, 2014 Parature Customer service software United States 100,000,000 [185]
163 May 1, 2014 GreenButton Cloud computing New Zealand — [186]
164 May 1, 2014 Capptain (Mobile) application development France — [187]
165 July 2, 2014 SyntaxTree Developer tools France — [188]
166 July 11, 2014 InMage Disaster recovery solutions United States — [189]
167 August 1, 2014 Inception Mobile Inc. Software Canada — [190]
168 November 6, 2014 Mojang Video games Sweden 2,500,000,000 [191]
169 November 13, 2014 Aorato Enterprise Security & machine learning Israel — [192]
170 December 2, 2014 Acompli Mobile Email Apps United States — [193]
171 December 11, 2014 HockeyApp Mobile Beta Distribution & Crash Analytics Germany — [194]
172 January 20, 2015 Equivio Text Analytics Service Israel — [195]
173 January 23, 2015 Revolution Analytics Statistical computing and predictive analytics United States — [196]
174 February 4, 2015 Sunrise Atelier, Inc. Sunrise Calendar applications United States 100,000,000 [197]
175 February 12, 2015 N-trig Styli and pen input hardware and software Israel 200,000,000 [198]
176 March 26, 2015 LiveLoop PowerPoint collaboration United States — [199]
177 April 14, 2015 Datazen Software, Inc. Mobile business intelligence & Data visualization Canada — [200]
178 June 2, 2015 6Wunderkinder GmbH Wunderlist to-do list applications Germany — [201]
179 June 10, 2015 BlueStripe Software Application management United States — [202]
180 July 16, 2015 FieldOne Systems LLC Enterprise Field Service United States — [203]
181 July 19, 2015 Adallom Cloud security Israel 320,000,000 [204][205]
182 August 3, 2015 Incent Games, LLC Sales-gamification United States — [206]
183 September 3, 2015 VoloMetrix, Inc. Organisational analytics United States — [207]
184 September 11, 2015 Double Labs, Inc. Mobile lock screen software United States — [208]
185 September 28, 2015 Adxstudio Inc. Web portal and application lifecycle management solutions Canada — [209]
186 October 2, 2015 Telekinesys Research Ltd. Game technology vendor Ireland — [210]
187 November 5, 2015 Mobile Data Labs, Inc. MileIQ, a mileage tracking application United States — [211]
188 November 9, 2015 Secure Islands Technologies Ltd. Data protection Israel — [212]
189 December 18, 2015 Metanautix Big Data Analytics United States — [213]
190 December 21, 2015 Talko, Inc. Mobile communications United States — [214]
191 January 19, 2016 Teacher Gaming LLC Education software Finland — [215]
192 February 3, 2016 TouchType, Ltd. SwiftKey, a keyboard productivity application United Kingdom 250,000,000 [216][217][218]
193 February 9, 2016 Groove Music Discovery Canada — [219]
194 February 24, 2016 Xamarin Mobile application development United States — [220][221][222][223]
195 May 3, 2016 Solair Internet of Things platform Italy — [224]
196 August 8, 2016 Beam (now known as Mixer) Video game streaming United States — [225][226]
197 August 20, 2016 Genee AI-powered scheduling assistant service United States —
198 December 8, 2016 LinkedIn Professional Networking Service United States 26,200,000,000 [227]
199 January 13, 2017 Maluuba Artificial Intelligence Canada — [228]
200 January 17, 2017 Simplygon 3D Gaming Sweden — [229]
201 April 10, 2017 Deis Container Management United States — [230][231]
202 April 18, 2017 Intentional Software Collaborative Productivity Platform United States — [232]
203 June 8, 2017 Hexadite Cybersecurity Israel 100,000,000 [233]
204 June 28, 2017 Cloudyn Cloud Business Management Israel 50,000,000 [234]
205 August 15, 2017 Cycle Computing Cloud HPC United States — [235]
206 October 3, 2017 AltspaceVR Virtual reality United States — [236]
207 November 7, 2017 SWNG Cinemagraphic photo app United States — [237][238]
208 January 29, 2018 Playfab Gaming backend service United States — [239][240]
209 May 18, 2018 Semantic Machines Conversational AI United States — [241]
210 June 4, 2018 GitHub Inc. Version Control Hosting United States 7,500,000,000 [242][243]
212 June 11, 2018 Ninja Theory Video games United Kingdom — [244]
213 June 11, 2018 Undead Labs Video games United States — [245]
214 June 11, 2018 Compulsion Games Video games Canada — [246]
215 June 11, 2018 Playground Games Video games United Kingdom — [247]
216 June 18, 2018 Flipgrid Education, video discussion platform United States — [248]
217 June 20, 2018 Bonsai Industrial AI platform United States — [249]
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