Microsoft

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Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. They are a veteran software company, best known for their Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software, but they have also ventured into hardware with consumer products such as the Zune and Xbox. They have made a presence on the Web with the MSN internet portal and Microsoft Live search, but have been widely criticized for their failure to penetrate this market.

Milestones

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• Acquired Interactive Super Computing. (9/22/09)
  Posted 9/22/09 at 2:29pm
• Acquired Rosetta Biosoftware. (6/1/09)
  Posted 6/2/09 at 10:59am
• Acquired BigPark. (5/7/09)
  Posted 5/11/09 at 11:11am
• Invested in N-Trig. (1/12/09)
  Posted 1/12/09 at 8:05am
• Acquired Greenfield Online for $486M. (8/29/08)
  Posted 8/29/08 at 9:51am
• Invested in Move Networks. (8/25/08)
  Posted 8/29/08 at 1:21pm
• Acquired DATAllegro. (7/25/08)
  Posted 7/28/08 at 10:06am
• Acquired Zoomix for $35M. (7/14/08)
  Posted 7/14/08 at 2:04pm
• Acquired Powerset for $100M. (7/1/08)
  Posted 7/1/08 at 10:47am
• Acquired MobiComp. (6/26/08)
  Posted 6/26/08 at 1:40pm
• Acquired Navic Networks. (6/18/08)
  Posted 6/18/08 at 4:43am
• Acquired Farecast for $115M. (4/17/08)
  Posted 4/17/08 at 3:49pm
• Invested in Move Networks. (4/14/08)
  Posted 4/14/08 at 7:18am
• Acquired Komoku. (3/20/08)
  Posted 10/17/08 at 10:48am
• Acquired Rapt. (3/14/08)
  Posted 3/14/08 at 8:36am
• Acquired Kidaro. (3/12/08)
  Posted 3/12/08 at 7:01pm
• Acquired Credentica. (3/8/08)
  Posted 3/9/08 at 11:16am
• Acquired YaData for $20M. (2/27/08)
  Posted 3/14/08 at 8:35am
• Acquired Danger for $500M. (2/11/08)
  Posted 2/17/08 at 11:42am
• Acquired Caligari Corporation. (2/7/08)
  Posted 10/17/08 at 11:10am
• Acquired Calista Technologies. (1/21/08)
  Posted 2/18/08 at 5:57pm
• Acquired Fast Search & Transfer for $1.2B. (1/8/08)
  Posted 10/17/08 at 11:20am
• Acquired MultiMap. (12/12/07)
  Posted 10/17/08 at 11:52am
• Invested in Zignals. (12/07)
  Posted 9/8/09 at 8:27am
• Acquired Global Care Solutions. (10/29/07)
  Posted 10/17/08 at 12:06pm
• Acquired jellyfish for $50M. (10/3/07)
  Posted 1/3/08 at 3:54am
• Invested in Facebook. (10/1/07)
  Posted 10/24/07 at 8:57am
• Reed Sturtevant, Managing Director, Microsoft Startup Labs added. (9/07)
  Posted 3/16/08 at 1:24pm
• Acquired Parlano. (8/29/07)
  Posted 8/12/08 at 3:03pm
• Acquired AdECN. (7/26/07)
  Posted 10/17/08 at 12:20pm
• Acquired aQuantive for $6B. (5/18/07)
  Posted 3/14/08 at 8:40am
• Acquired Screen Tonic. (5/3/07)
  Posted 10/17/08 at 12:37pm
• Acquired Tellme for $800M. (3/14/07)
  Posted 6/5/09 at 12:33pm
• Acquired Medstory. (2/26/07)
  Posted 10/17/08 at 1:07pm
• Acquired Colloquis. (10/12/06)
  Posted 10/20/08 at 1:25pm
• Nathan Buggia, Lead Program Manager added. (8/1/06)
  Posted 11/4/09 at 3:03pm
• Acquired Azyxxi. (7/26/06)
  Posted 10/20/08 at 1:52pm
• Acquired Winternals. (7/18/06)
  Posted 10/20/08 at 2:03pm
• Acquired Softricity. (7/17/06)
  Posted 10/20/08 at 2:15pm
• Acquired Whale Communications for $75M. (5/18/06)
  Posted 10/20/08 at 2:31pm
• Acquired Massive for $200M. (5/06)
  Posted 5/22/08 at 2:37pm
• Acquired Lionhead Studios. (4/6/06)
  Posted 10/20/08 at 2:51pm
• Acquired ProClarity. (4/3/06)
  Posted 7/19/08 at 9:39pm
• Acquired Onfolio. (3/7/06)
  Posted 10/20/08 at 3:21pm
• Acquired Apptimum. (3/7/06)
  Posted 10/20/08 at 3:13pm
• Acquired Motion Bridge. (2/13/06)
  Posted 10/20/08 at 4:02pm
• Acquired FolderShare. (11/3/05)
  Posted 10/22/08 at 12:12pm
• Acquired Media-Streams.com. (11/2/05)
  Posted 10/22/08 at 12:28pm
• Acquired Alacris. (9/19/05)
  Posted 10/20/08 at 4:53pm
• Acquired Teleo, Inc. . (8/30/05)
  Posted 10/22/08 at 12:42pm
• Acquired Frontbridge Technologies. (7/20/05)
  Posted 10/22/08 at 12:53pm
• Acquired MessageCast. (3/11/05)
  Posted 1/26/09 at 2:46pm
• Acquired Groove Networks. (3/10/05)
  Posted 10/22/08 at 1:02pm
• Acquired Sybari. (2/8/05)
  Posted 10/22/08 at 1:10pm
• Don Dodge, Director of Business Development added. (2005)
  Posted 5/7/08 at 10:30pm
• Acquired GIANT Company Software. (12/16/04)
  Posted 10/22/08 at 1:23pm
• Acquired ActiveViews. (4/26/04)
  Posted 10/22/08 at 2:53pm
• Acquired PlaceWare. (4/30/03)
  Posted 10/22/08 at 3:04pm
• Acquired Connectix. (2/19/03)
  Posted 10/22/08 at 3:19pm
• Acquired Vicinity Corp.. (10/22/02)
  Posted 10/22/08 at 3:31pm
• Acquired Rare, Inc. for $337M. (9/24/02)
  Posted 10/22/08 at 3:41pm
• Acquired Navision. (5/7/02)
  Posted 10/23/08 at 10:28am
• Acquired eShop. (6/11/96)
  Posted 5/13/08 at 9:25pm
• Went public with stock symbol MSFT. (3/13/86)
  Posted 2/8/08 at 9:25pm
• Tony Pribyl, District Sales Manager added.
  Posted 6/16/08 at 11:32am
• Ramez Naam, Group Program Manager, Live Search Algorithmic Infrastructure added.
  Posted 7/1/08 at 1:49pm
• Arnaud Fischer, Product Planner added.
  Posted 6/29/08 at 1:40am
• Ben McInnis, Product Planning Manager added.
  Posted 6/19/08 at 11:13pm
• Chris Capossela, Senior Vice President, Information Worker Product Management Group added.
  Posted 7/2/08 at 3:30pm
• Brad Smith, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, Legal & Corporate Affairs added.
  Posted 6/12/08 at 2:13pm
• David Gómez-Rosado, User Experience Manager added.
  Posted 6/7/08 at 5:53pm
• Stephen Elop, President, Microsoft Business Division added.
  Posted 6/7/08 at 1:58pm
• Jeff Raikes, President added.
  Posted 6/7/08 at 1:49pm
• Naveen K. Jain, Program Manager added.
  Posted 5/29/08 at 4:06pm
• Julie Larson-Green, Corporate Vice President, Windows Experience Program Management added.
  Posted 5/27/08 at 10:31pm
• Robbie Bach, President, Entertainment & Devices Division added.
  Posted 5/22/08 at 6:51pm
• Satya Nadella, Senior VP, Search, Portal & Advertising Platform Group added.
  Posted 5/21/08 at 10:08am
• Brad Goldberg, General Manager, Search added.
  Posted 5/21/08 at 8:50am
• Kintan Brahmbhatt, Program Manager, Real Time Collaborations added.
  Posted 5/19/08 at 5:22pm
• Eran Aloni, Senior Program Manager added.
  Posted 5/18/08 at 2:38am
• Ian Sands, Director of Envisioining, Microsoft Office Labs added.
  Posted 5/14/08 at 12:47am
• Chris Pratley, General Manager, Office Labs added.
  Posted 5/14/08 at 12:45am
• Dave Hodson, Development Manager added.
  Posted 2/12/09 at 1:50pm
• Olivier Duprez, Sales Manager added.
  Posted 5/6/08 at 12:07am
• Vic Gundotra, General Manager added.
  Posted 5/1/08 at 1:58pm
• Roy Levin, Distinguished Engineer/Director of Microsoft Research Silicon Valley added.
  Posted 4/28/08 at 6:35am
• Rick Rashid, Senior Vice President of Research added.
  Posted 4/28/08 at 6:28am
• David Treadwell, Vice President, Live Platform Services added.
  Posted 4/26/08 at 1:25am
• Lee Mighdoll, Director added.
  Posted 4/23/08 at 10:52am
• Orlena Yeung, Global Brand Manager added.
  Posted 4/22/08 at 3:02pm
• Bill Gates, Founder, Chairman added.
  Posted 4/17/08 at 7:38am
• Scott Blomquist, Software Development Lead added.
  Posted 3/31/08 at 10:53am
• Anand Iyer, Evangelist added.
  Posted 3/30/08 at 10:17am
• Arif Padaria, Strategic Investments added.
  Posted 3/28/08 at 10:44am
• John Richards, Director of Windows Live Platform added.
  Posted 3/25/08 at 8:16am
• Gerri Elliott, Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector added.
  Posted 2/21/09 at 10:00pm
• Steve Ballmer, CEO added.
  Posted 3/10/08 at 9:35am
• Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect added.
  Posted 3/10/08 at 9:31am
• Scott Guthrie, Vice President in the Microsoft Developer Division added.
  Posted 3/5/08 at 2:08pm
• Chris Treadaway, Business Manager, Silverlight & Expression, Visual Studio; Group Product Manager, Web Strategy added.
  Posted 2/23/08 at 9:38pm
• Kevin Johnson, President, Platforms & Services Division added.
  Posted 2/22/08 at 1:39pm
• Neal Margulis, General Manager for Desktop Vitualization and Remote Desktops added.
  Posted 2/18/08 at 5:56pm
• Trevor Traina, Group Manager added.
  Posted 3/9/09 at 5:54pm
• Alex Barnett, Community Program Manager added.
  Posted 3/27/09 at 8:16pm
• Invested in NHK World.
  Posted 12/24/08 at 2:19am
• Dayne Sampson, Global Foundation Services added.
  Posted 3/31/09 at 7:16am
• Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer added.
  Posted 4/27/09 at 9:16am
• Invested in PlanetEye.
  Posted 7/10/08 at 8:52am
• Tammy Savage, GM, Public Safety Initiatives added.
  Posted 4/27/09 at 2:58pm
• Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group added.
  Posted 7/23/08 at 2:25pm
• Bruce Jaffe, Mergers and Acquisitions added.
  Posted 5/11/09 at 11:02am
• Michael Abbott, General Manager added.
  Posted 5/27/09 at 9:28am
• Mike McCue, General Manager, Tellme Networks added.
  Posted 6/5/09 at 12:29pm
• Shreedhar Madhavapeddi, Engineer, Program Manager added.
  Posted 6/7/09 at 10:37am
• Jon DeVaan, Senior Vice President, Windows Core Operating System Division added.
  Posted 7/23/08 at 2:26pm
• Bill Veghte, Senior Vice President, Online Services & Windows Business Group added.
  Posted 7/23/08 at 2:27pm
• Rita Oates, Family Technology Night presenter added.
  Posted 8/2/08 at 8:43am
• Marcelo Calbucci, Development Manager added.
  Posted 8/2/08 at 12:05pm
• Eric Rudder, Senior Vice President, Technical Strategy added.
  Posted 8/4/08 at 10:22am
• David Gedye, Manager, Photosynth Project added.
  Posted 8/20/08 at 7:55pm
• Mark Kapczynski, Director added.
  Posted 8/21/08 at 1:32pm
• Angela Baxley, User Experience Designer added.
  Posted 9/19/08 at 1:08pm
• Charles Fitzgerald, General Manager of Platform Strategy added.
  Posted 10/8/08 at 8:47pm
• Ali Rıza Babaoğlan, Remote Object Model Developer added.
  Posted 10/18/08 at 5:11am
• Dan'l Lewin, Corporate Vice President, Strategic and Emerging Business Development added.
  Posted 11/5/08 at 2:32am
• Robin Domeniconi, Vice President of U.S. advertising sales added.
  Posted 11/7/08 at 12:51pm
• Chris Jones, Vice President, Windows Live Experience added.
  Posted 11/12/08 at 8:19pm
• Brian Hall, General Manager, Windows Live Business Group added.
  Posted 11/12/08 at 8:21pm
• Sean Suchter, GM Silicon Valley Search Technology added.
  Posted 11/23/08 at 2:31pm
• Kevin Goldsmith, Software Design Engineer added.
  Posted 11/28/08 at 7:19am
• Patrick Ford, Product Manager Multimedia and Interactive TV added.
  Posted 11/28/08 at 12:44pm
• Manuel Bronstein, Director added.
  Posted 11/28/08 at 6:02pm
• Qi Lu, President, Online Services Group added.
  Posted 12/4/08 at 2:25pm
• Jon Clark, Search Account Manager added.
  Posted 12/5/08 at 8:21am
• Dick Hardt, Partner Architect added.
  Posted 12/15/08 at 4:46pm
• David Sloo, Director of User Experience, WebTV added.
  Posted 12/22/08 at 2:01pm
• Rajesh Jha, Development VP, Microsoft Exchange added.
  Posted 1/13/09 at 1:14am
• Sukhvinder Gulati, Lead Architect added.
  Posted 6/13/09 at 10:20am
• Kevin Timmons, Data Center Services Director added.
  Posted 6/22/09 at 9:16am
• Sean Suchter, GM, Search Technology Center Silicon Valley added.
  Posted 7/1/09 at 2:25pm
• Joey DeVilla, Developer Evangelist added.
  Posted 7/2/09 at 4:18am
• Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live added.
  Posted 7/8/09 at 1:03pm
• Jon Rooney, Sr. Product Manager-Silverlight added.
  Posted 7/10/09 at 7:11am
• Juha Christensen, Corporate Vice President, Mobile Devices Division added.
  Posted 7/12/09 at 10:59pm
• Mark Lucovsky, Distinguished Engineer added.
  Posted 7/13/09 at 9:55pm
• Russ Nemhauser, Program Manager added.
  Posted 7/16/09 at 9:40pm
• Nat Brown, Developer, Evangelist added.
  Posted 7/22/09 at 10:07am
• Chris Schaumann, Global Advertising and Digital Lead added.
  Posted 7/28/09 at 9:26pm
• Chris Schaumann, Microsoft Advertising Country Sales Manager added.
  Posted 7/28/09 at 9:26pm
• Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager, Internet Explorer added.
  Posted 1/15/09 at 6:44pm
• Omar Nawaz, Sr. Group Product Manager added.
  Posted 7/29/09 at 9:24am
• William Lai, MSN added.
  Posted 7/30/09 at 10:38am
• Ed Doran, Product Planning added.
  Posted 8/3/09 at 11:10am
• Amy Barzdukas, General Manager, Internet Explorer & Consumer Security added.
  Posted 8/11/09 at 1:27pm
• Eric Faller, Software Design Engineer II added.
  Posted 1/27/09 at 10:02pm
• Ron Pessner, General Manager of the Games for Windows Live Division added.
  Posted 1/29/09 at 5:50pm
• Anand Iyer, Sr. Product Manager, Windows Mobile added.
  Posted 9/2/09 at 11:34am
• Jess Barron, Program Manager, UltimateTV added.
  Posted 9/21/09 at 6:48pm
• Aaron Lee, Summer Intern added.
  Posted 9/22/09 at 9:28am
• Anthony Carrabino, Sr. Product Manager added.
  Posted 10/6/09 at 10:02pm
• Ivan Brezak Brkan, Blogger added.
  Posted 10/14/09 at 1:07am
• Stefan Weitz, Director of Search added.
  Posted 10/14/09 at 3:49pm
• Lili Cheng, General manager of the Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Labs added.
  Posted 10/15/09 at 8:04am
• Kai-Fu Lee, Corporate Vice President added.
  Posted 10/15/09 at 10:34am
• Scott Moore, US Executive Producer - Content and Programming strategy added.
  Posted 2/2/09 at 11:44am

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1. Microsoft Confirms Interactive Supercomputing Acquisition, Shuts Down Star-P (techcrunchit.com) [edit]
2. Microsoft buys Merck unit in life sciences push (news.cnet.com) [edit]
3. Microsoft Agrees to Acquire BigPark Inc. (microsoft.com) [edit]
4. Microsoft Says Hello to Ciao, Buys European Shopping Site (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. Microsoft acquires DATAllegro data warehouse appliance company (venturebeat.com) [edit]
6. Microsoft Acquires Data Optimization Provider Zoomix (techcrunchit.com) [edit]
7. Microsoft to Acquire Powerset (powerset.com) [edit]
8. MobiComp to be Acquired by Microsoft (techcrunchit.com) [edit]
9. press release (biz.yahoo.com) [edit]
10. Microsoft Acquires Farecast For $115M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. Microsoft strengthens anti-malware protection with leading-edge rootkit detection provider. (microsoft.com) [edit]
12. Microsoft Picks Up Another Ad Startup: Rapt (techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. Microsoft buys virtualization player Kidaro (news.com) [edit]
14. credentica.com [edit]
15. Microsoft Picks Up Israeli Ad-Targetting Software Startup YaData for a Reported $20 Million to $30 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
16. Meanwhile, Microsoft Buys Danger For $500 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
17. Microsoft Buys Caligari To Pimp Up Virtual Earth (techcrunch.com) [edit]
18. Microsoft acquires Calista Technologies (calistatechnologies.com) [edit]
19. Microsoft bids $1.2B for Fast Search and Transfer (infoworld.com) [edit]
20. Microsoft buys Multimap (guardian.co.uk) [edit]
21. Microsoft to Acquire Innovative Healthcare Technology and Assets From Global Care Solutions (microsoft.com) [edit]
22. Microsoft Buys Jellyfish (wistechnology.com) [edit]
23. Microsoft to Acquire Parlano (microsoft.com) [edit]
24. Microsoft to Acquire AdECN, Inc (microsoft.com) [edit]
25. Microsoft Pays $6 billion for aQuantive: Massive Ad Network Consolidation Is Occuring (techcrunch.com) [edit]
26. Microsoft buys mobile advertising company ScreenTonic (computerworld.com) [edit]
27. Microsoft Acquires Tellme (techcrunch.com) [edit]
28. Advertise on NYTimes.com Microsoft to Buy Health Information Search Engine (nytimes.com) [edit]
29. Microsoft Acquires Colloquis to Enhance User Interactions Online (microsoft.com) [edit]
30. Microsoft Expands Presence in Healthcare IT Industry With Acquisition of Health Intelligence Software Azyxxi (microsoft.com) [edit]
31. Microsoft Acquires Winternals (microsoft.com) [edit]
32. Microsoft Completes Acquisition of Softricity (microsoft.com) [edit]
33. Microsoft bought in-game ads pioneer Massive for over $200 million in May 2006. (blog.quintura.com) [edit]
34. Microsoft snaps up UK games guru (news.bbc.co.uk) [edit]
35. Microsoft Agrees to Acquire ProClarity, Enhancing Business Intelligence Offering (microsoft.com) [edit]
36. Microsoft Enhances Windows Live Toolbar Capabilities With Acquisition of Onfolio (microsoft.com) [edit]
37. Microsoft Acquires Apptimum Inc., a Leading Application Transfer Company (microsoft.com) [edit]
38. Microsoft Acquires Mobile Search Technology Provider MotionBridge (microsoft.com) [edit]
39. Microsoft Acquires FolderShare, a File-Synchronization Technology Provider (microsoft.com) [edit]
40. Microsoft to Acquire media-streams.com AG; Technologies to Integrate Voice Communications Into Microsoft Office System (microsoft.com) [edit]
41. Microsoft Acquires Identity and Access Management Solutions Provider Alacris (microsoft.com) [edit]
42. Microsoft Acquires Teleo, Innovative VoIP Technology Company (microsoft.com) [edit]
43. Microsoft to Acquire FrontBridge Technologies, a Leading Provider of Secure Messaging Services (microsoft.com) [edit]
44. MSN Acquires MessageCast to Expand Automated Alerting Services (microsoft.com) [edit]
45. Microsoft to Acquire Groove Networks, Combining Talents to Create Anytime, Anywhere Collaboration Products and Services (microsoft.com) [edit]
46. Microsoft to Acquire Enterprise Anti-Virus Security Provider Sybari Software (microsoft.com) [edit]
47. Microsoft Acquires Anti-Spyware Leader GIANT Company (microsoft.com) [edit]
48. Microsoft Acquires ActiveViews’ Business Intelligence Functionality (microsoft.com) [edit]
49. PlaceWare, Inc. Announces Its Acquisition by Microsoft Is Complete (microsoft.com) [edit]
50. Microsoft Acquires Connectix Virtual Machine Technology (microsoft.com) [edit]
51. Microsoft Agrees to Acquire Vicinity Corporation to Extend Value Of Location-Based Technology for Customers and Developers (microsoft.com) [edit]
52. Microsoft Acquires Video Game Powerhouse Rare Ltd. (microsoft.com) [edit]
53. Microsoft Acquires Navision (microsoft.com) [edit]
54. Microsoft Acquires eShop Inc. (microsoft.com) [edit]
55. Press release (n-trig.com) [edit]
56. Microsoft Invests in Heavily-Backed HD Online Video Service Move Networks (paidcontent.org) [edit]
57. Online video services company Move Networks raises $46 million (venturebeat.com) [edit]
58. Microsoft teams up with Irish start-up Zignals to launch beta online service (finfacts.ie) [edit]
59. Liveblogging Press Conference (techcrunch.com) []
60. PlanetEye’s investors include (main.planeteye.com) [edit]
61. Citation Needed [add]