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Infographic of Microsoft's vast legacy of acquisition

Microsoft Acquisitions and Investments Created by Robin Richards @ripetungi www.ripetungi.com 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Titus Communications Interliant TCI Technology Ventures Opalis Software Interactive Supercomputing ITRAN Communications Ltd. Rogers Communications Tsinghua-Shenxun Vanstar Canesta Inc AppNexus YaData FolderShare D.E.N. Travelscape Navitel SeaChange International Qwest Runner Communications Telecom MEASAT Broadcast Network United Global Gigamedia Ltd. Asia Global Crossing Black Entertainment Television Road Portugal Korea Thrunet Communications UUNET Nextel NorthPoint FuturelLink Communications Korea Communications Telcom Communications Systems Globo Cabo Concentric Network Jato Tut NBC Teligent AT&T Omnibrowse Gilat Comcast Entex DSL.net Chyron Corp. NTL Hitachi Telewest Communications WavePhore Jump Networks Digital Island Telecom New Zealand Sendo Mobicomp VXtreme Zignals WebAppoint Equinix Dreamworks Facebook MTel Keen.com MyPlant.com MessageCast Multimap.com cpa2biz United Pan-Europe Communications NV AVIcode SkyTel Communications Wang CAIS Internet STNC Tellme Networks Navision Radiant Systems NCompass Labs First Data Cooper Pluto WebMD CMG elabour DeepMetrix Кт Interland Firefly Corio & Peters Verisign WebTV CMGI DiscoverMusic.com OKWave Technologies Connectix CommVault Softricity CO Danger Inc. GAINT Company Software Onfolio NextBase Intersé Dimension X Ensemble Studios Winternals Software - 5th Finger Stratature TRADOS Big Park SRS Labs Exos Blixer Net Caligari Corp. Komoku Interactive Objects-Digital Valence Research Ameranth Technology Systems Global Care Solutions aha! Software Numinous OpenPort Sendit Rare Technologies Inprise eFusion YaData Ticketmaster CitySearch FASA Interactive Pacific Microsonics VerticalNet Helicon Publishing Limited aQuantive O Hotmail Navic Networks BroadBand Office One Tree Software ADEČN RadioShack LinkExchange RenderMorphics Ltd. Extreme Logic Accel Partners USWeb/CKS Lionhead Studios American City Business Journals ScreenTonic General MediaWave Lernout Proginet Altamira Zoomit Magic & Hauspie Parlano Big Huge Games Electric Gravity Digital Anvil NetGames Access Software Design Intelligence Bungie Software SingleTrac Entertainment Technologies Fairmarket Inc. ThingWorld.com C O Massive Incorporated Apple Computer GECAD Software Alacris Vexcel Apptimum Savvis Inc-Data Immersion USinternetworking Inc. Skype Centres Intertainer Infolibra Gteko Corp. Engyro Reciprocal Vicinity FolderShare CompareNet Microsoft iView Multimedia FrontBridge Technologies CompUSA Plural MESA Group Calista Technologies Vermeer Technologies SmartPipes Dialogic Banyan Systems Lookout Software Yam Digital Technology MotionBridge MongoMusic Powerset Medstory Digital Sound Corp. Farecast Corel Corp. Yupi Commerce One Softimage Softway Systems Data Return Tuttle Digex Dorling Kindersley devBiz Business Solutions Decision Peach Whale Wildfire Communications PlaceWare Progressive Networks Rhythms Systems VDOnet Networks Communications DATAllegro CO Jellyfish.com Н Audible.com Entropic VenturCom Tandem DesktopStandard media-streams.com Colloquis Great Telmex N-Trig O Greenfield Online Plains Software Wink Communications O Best Buy Ecoss Dare to Dream Intertainment Credentica Zoomix @home Solutions eShop RealNetworks Individual Inc. Teleo Fast Search & Transfer Stac Electronics Driveoff.com LinkAge Software RealNames Career Builder Colusa & Aspect Sybari Software VGA-Animation Software Div Visio Corp. NetCarta ProClarity ShadowFactor Software ReNova ByteTaxi Blackboard Akamai Software XDegrees The Blue Ribbon SoundWorks Ltd. UMT AssetMetrix Key to Lines Aspect Software Engineering Industry Technology Software Moblie Telecommunications E-Stamp Corp. Santa Cruz Operation Bruce Artwick Seadragon Software Rosetta Comm Touch Software Groove Software Rapt ActiveViews CSI Inc. Kidaro Biosoftware Sentillion Organization Ltd. Web Services Search Games Other E-commerce Advertising VOIP O Inter-connecting industries 9. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Investments Acquisitions Santa Cruz Operation J12 O Qwest Communications B5 • $200m Rogers Communications A16 • $405m CAIS Internet СЗ • $40m Altamira F11 O Peach Networks H17 O aQuantive Еб $6.33bn Dorling Kindersley H6 O $14.3m @home Solutions 17 Korea Thrunet B6 • $36m Corel Corporation G1 • $135m Softimage н9 O $139m WebAppoint C10 O Parlano F1 TCI Technology Venture A5 O $125m Akamai 17 • $15m Globo Cabo B16 • $126m Chyron Corporation B18 • $6m One Tree Software E12 O Bungie Software F8 Global Care Solutions -Assets E14 • * Stac Electronics I12 O $39.9m Asia Global Crossing B14 • $175m CommTouch Software K2 • $20m American City Business Journals E19 • NextBase D2 NetGames F6 Multimap.com C15 • $50m Dreamworks SKG C11 O Best Buy 18 • $200m Gigamedia Ltd. B13 • $31.5m Blackboard 17 Bruce Artwick Organization Ltd. J11 O MongoMusic G7 • $65m Caligari Corporation E7 Individual Inc. 13 CareerBuilder 15 • $17.8m Ameranth Technology Systems D3 Commerce One G4 Dare to Dream Intertainment I11 Pacifiç Microsonics E17 O Credentica I10 • * NBC B9 D.E.N. A15 • Big Huge Games F7 cpa2biz C16 • $50m RenderMorphics, Ltd. E14 Design Intelligence F8 Zoomix I12 Black Entertainment Television B15 O Data Return H14 • $5m CommVault D4 Extreme Logic E4 The Blue Ribbon SoundWorks Ltd. J12 O Ensemble Studios D9 Calista Technologies G9 CMG D9 O $20m DiscoverMusic.com D17 • $5m CompUSA G4 Infolibria G15 • UUNET B7 NCompass Labs D12 • $36m YaData E10 • * Entex B16 O DSL.net B17 • $15m Corio D14 • $10m KT D11 • $500m Vanstar АЗ SmartPipes G8 Rapt КЗ Helicon Publishing Limited E7 Equinix C10 • $6.25m CSI Inc. K4 MediaWave E15 Wang C17 O $90m Navision C7 • $1.45bn Komoku D17 • $5m MTel (SkyTel) C12 O $30m Fairmarket Inç. F3 Digex Н2 • $50m Telecom New Zealand C16 • aha! Software D11 O XDegrees J8 Farecast G12 • $75m Proginet E16 O Nextel Communications B6 • $600m Digital Island C15 O Audible.com н8 ReNova Software 15 Rare E10 • $375m Danger Inc. D5 • $500m • $1.2m • $30m • $100m SingleTrac Entertainment Technologies F9 NorthPoint Communications eLabor D10 • * Yupi G8 VGA-Animation Software Div J10 Vicinity G18 . $96m Fast Search & Transfer 15 Tandem H12 O RadioShack E8 FutureLink B8 • $10m Sendo C6 • $12m Colusa & Aspect 12 PlaceWare Н4 • $200m Kidaro K5 VDOnet Rhythms H15 • Gilat B14 • $50m Korea Telecom B10 • $500m Exos D9 Conncetix D3 Navic Networks E9 Verisign D15 O Teligent B12 • $200m Hitachi B17 • * Immersion Corp. G16 • $26m eShop 12 ActiveViews КЗ Mobicomp C7 • $240m Aspect Software Engineering J11 O $14.15m Telmex H4 Interland D12 • $5m GECAD Software F12 O Electric Gravity F9 GIANT Company Software D7 Powerset G7 • $100m Apple Computer O $150m G19 • ThingWorld.com Ticketmaster CitySearch F8 F5 Interliant A5 • $10m Lookout Software G5 Vermeer Technologies G11 O $133m FolderShare DATAllegro H18 • Comcast B15 O $1bn ITRAN Communications, Ltd. MessageCast C14 O $7m WębTV Networks D16 O $425m Groove Networks K2 • $51m Greenfield Online • $486m E19 • A15 O H5 Digital Sound Corporation G11 O United Global Communications B10 • $219m Jato Communications B9 • $10m Tsinghua-Shenxun -Cert Asts A3 • $15m Dimension X D17 O Sybari Software J10 BigPark D10 • * E-Stamp Corporation K5 USWeb/CKS E4 Keen.com C13 • ByteTaxi 16 Cooper & Peters D15 O Teleo 16 Rosetta Biosoftware к6 eFusion E9 Visio Corporation I12 • $1.375bn MyPlant.com C14 O 5th Finger D5 • $3.2m LinkAge Software 19 FrontBridge Technologies G12 • Interactive Supercomputing A13 • * First Data D13 O Wink Communications H10 • $30m Plural G4 UMT J11 O VXtreme C9 Alacris G7 Sentillion K6 Intersé Radiant Systems Seadragon Software Hotmail O $500m A12 O D2 SkyTel Communications C7 D11 • K4 E1 media-streams.com Н6 Opalis Software Lernout & Hauspie E16 O $45m FASA Interactive E10 • SeaChange International B4 AssetMetrix J2 Firefly D14 • $40m MotionBridge G6 O $17.9m YaData A12 • $20m Navitel B17 C United Pan-Europe Comm NV СЗ • $300m SRS Labs D19 O Vexcel F7 MESA Group G1 Apptimum F9 AVIcode C4 • $2.6bn • $945m RealNetworks 13 NTL B19 • $500m Telewest Communications B2 DeepMetrix D10 O Valence Research D3 Onfolio D7 Canesta Inc. A10 • TRADOS D8 Banyan Systems G2 • $10m TITUS Communications A4 iView Multimedia F10 O LinkExchange E8 • $250m Lionhead Studios E10 O Skype F4 • $8.5bn Wildfire Communications H19 O $12m Dialogic G14 • $24.2m USinternetworking, Inc. F1 • $50m Gteko F16 O $110m Jump Networks C12 • * Massive Incorporated F5 NetCarta 13 O $20m CompareNet F3 VenturCom H10 O DesktopStandard H14 O ShadowFactor Software 16 ProClarity 13 Progressive Networks Н1 O $30m Reciprocal G17 O Yam Digital Technology G6 • $1.6m Engyro F17 Omnibrowse B13 • * Softricity D5 Year of Acquisitions or Investments Accel Partners E5 Numinous Technologies E12 • Intertainer G15 • $56m Stratature D11 O * Sendit E5 • $130m Winternals Software D12 O O 1989 O 1991 1994 1995 O 1996 CMGI D16 • Portugal Telecom B5 • $38.6m VerticalNet ЕЗ • $100m Savvis Inc. -Data Centres F11 O $200m Zoomit F14 • Whale Communications H17 $75m O 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 OpenPort E5 Interactive Objects-Digita E1 BroadBand Office E11 • $25m Jellyfish.com H4 • $50m STNC C5 Colloquis Н2 • 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Road Runner B4 Inprise D2 • $125m Ecss 19 • $5m Facebook C11 • $240m Softway Systems G11 O Medstory G8 • 2007 • 2008 2009 2010 2011 Tut Systems B11 • AT&T B12 • $5bn RealNames 18 OKWave D18 • $2.5m Entropic Н9 devBiz Business Solutions H12 O * Cost of Acquisition not disclosed General Magic F12 • $6m Concentric Network B18 • $50m MEASAT Broadcast Network B7 • $100m Zignals C9 Digital Anvil F10 O ScreenTonic E5 Sources: www.microsoft.com WavePhore ВЗ WebMD • $250m • $89m Travelscape Blixer Net D9 B2 N-Trig Н7 Driveoff.com 14 Tellme Networks C6 www.cnet.com Pluto Technologies www.crunchbase.com/ All logo rights reversed D3 Tuttle Decision System H15 O D4 AppNexus A11 O Great Plains Software H12 • $1.1bn ADECN E7 .... 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Infographic of Microsoft's vast legacy of acquisition

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Courtesy of information designer Robin Richards, check this out: a visual map of all 264 companies Microsoft has acquired in its endless quest to dominate the market. Of course, Microsoft hasn’t al...

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