Monday, December 17, 2007

Microsoft and Acquisitions

Do you know which is the first company acquired by Microsoft? Well, the answer is a company called as ‘SOFTIMAGE’ and this acquisition happened on 28 June 1994.

Today, I found the list of official acquisitions by Microsoft here on the website.
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/acquisitions/history.mspx

You may want to have a look at it know more about it. One of my favorite acquisitions is that of Great Plains software in the year 2000 and of course hotmail. Recently, Microsoft has acquired UK based provider of online mapping and location based services called as ‘Multimap’.


Cheers,
Amol

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