List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft
Acquisitions

List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft

Section Title: Acquisitions
Table Section Text: None

Number	Date	Company	Business	Country	Value (USD)	References

1	July 30, 1987	Forethought, Inc.	Computer software	United States	14,000,000

2	March 31, 1991	Consumers Software	Software	Canada	—

3	June 29, 1992	Fox Software	PC database software	United States	—

4	February 28, 1994	Softimage	Wholesale 3-D visualization software	Canada	—

5	September 27, 1994	Altamira Software	Software	United States	—

6	November 1, 1994	NextBase	Software	United Kingdom	—

7	November 15, 1994	One Tree Software	Software	United States	—

8	February 23, 1995	RenderMorphics	3D graphics hardware	United States	—

9	July 10, 1995	Network Managers	Systems design	United Kingdom	—

10	October 17, 1995	The Blue Ribbon SoundWorks	Software	United States	—

11	November 6, 1995	Netwise	Computer software	United States	—

12	December 12, 1995	Bruce Artwick Organization	Programming	United States	—

13	January 16, 1996	Vermeer Technologies	Software	United States	133,000,000

14	March 6, 1996	VGA-Animation Software Div	Software	Germany	—

15	March 12, 1996	Colusa Software	Software	United States	—

16	April 16, 1996	Exos	Video game controllers	United States	—

17	April 23, 1996	Aspect Software Engineering	Computer software	United States	14,150,000

18	June 11, 1996	eShop Inc.	Software	United States	—

19	June 17, 1996	Electric Gravity	Electronic games	United States	—

20	November 1, 1996	Panorama Software Sys-On-Line	Software	Canada	—

21	February 3, 1997	NetCarta	Internet software	United States	20,000,000

22	March 3, 1997	Interse	Internet software	United States	—

23	April 30, 1997	WebTV Networks	Internet service provider	United States	425,000,000

24	May 7, 1997	Dimension X	Java-based platforms	United States	—

25	June 13, 1997	Cooper & Peters	Programming	United States	—

26	June 30, 1997	LinkAge Software	Internet software development	Canada	—

27	August 5, 1997	VXtreme	Internet video software	United States	—

28	December 31, 1997	Hotmail	Internet software	United States	500,000,000

29	February 23, 1998	Flash Communications	Enterprise instant messaging software	United States	—

30	April 15, 1998	Firefly	Relationship management software	United States	40,000,000

31	April 28, 1998	MESA Group	Data sharing software	United States	—

32	August 25, 1998	Valence Research	Internet software	United States	—

33	November 6, 1998	LinkExchange	Internet advertising network	United States	265,000,000

34	January 11, 1999	FASA Interactive	Computer game software	United States	—

35	March 4, 1999	CompareNet	Shopping online	United States	—

36	March 26, 1999	Numinous Technologies	Software	United States	—

37	April 27, 1999	Interactive Objects-Digital	Web music software	United States	—

38	April 30, 1999	Jump Networks	Internet service provider	United States	—

39	June 7, 1999	ShadowFactor Software	Wholesale computer software	United States	—

40	June 15, 1999	Omnibrowse	Internet software	United States	—

41	June 28, 1999	Intrinsa	Defect detection software	United States	58,900,000

42	July 1, 1999	Sendit	Application software	Sweden	125,420,000

43	July 7, 1999	Zoomit	Encryption software	Canada	—

44	July 21, 1999	STNC	Community software	United Kingdom	—

45	September 19, 1999	Softway Systems	Computer programming	United States	—

46	October 29, 1999	Entropic	Software	United States	—

47	January 7, 2000	Visio Corporation	Wholesale drawing software	United States	1.375×109

48	February 29, 2000	Peach Networks	Digital TV services	Israel	—

49	March 17, 2000	Travelscape	Internet service provider	United States	89,750,000

50	April 12, 2000	Titus Communications	Cable television	United States	944,800,000

51	June 19, 2000	Bungie	Computer software	United States	—

52	July 12, 2000	NetGames	Software	United States	—

53	September 13, 2000	MongoMusic	Online music search engine	United States	65,000,000

54	September 27, 2000	Pacific Microsonics	Digital audio technology	United States	—

55	March 17, 2001	Vacationspot	Internet service provider	United States	70,850,000

56	April 5, 2001	Great Plains Software	Business management software	United States	939,884,000

57	May 2, 2001	Intellisol International	Software	Canada	—

58	May 31, 2001	NCompass Labs	Internet software	Canada	36,000,000

59	June 21, 2001	Maximal Innovative Intelligence	Software	Israel	20,000,000

60	July 1, 2001	Yupi	Online Spanish Portal	United States	—

61	March 11, 2002	Classic Custom Vacations	Travel agency	United States	78,000,000

62	May 22, 2002	Sales Management Systems	Software	United States	—

63	July 12, 2002	Navision	Software programming	Denmark	1.33×109

64	July 29, 2002	Mobilocity	Computer consulting	United States	—

65	September 10, 2002	XDegrees	Security software	United States	—

66	September 24, 2002	Rare	Video games	United Kingdom	375,000,000

67	December 13, 2002	Vicinity	Online enterprise location	United States	95,849,000

68	February 25, 2003	Connectix	Software	United States	—

69	March 3, 2003	DCG	Internet software	Australia	—

70	April 30, 2003	PlaceWare	Web conferencing	United States	200,000,000

71	May 27, 2003	G.A. Sullivan	Information technology	United States	—

72	June 10, 2003	GeCAD Software	Antivirus technology	Romania	—

73	August 29, 2003	3DO Co-High Heat Baseball	Software	United States	450,000

74	April 22, 2004	Encore Bus Solutions-IP Asts	IP assets	United States	—

75	April 26, 2004	ActiveViews	Reporting systems	United States	—

76	July 16, 2004	Lookout Software	Personal search tool	United States	—

77	December 16, 2004	GIANT Company Software	Anti-spyware	United States	—

78	March 2, 2005	en'tegrate	Software	United States	—

79	April 9, 2005	Groove Networks	Community software	United States	—

80	May 11, 2005	MessageCast	Messaging	United States	7,000,000

81	May 31, 2005	Tsinghua-Shenxun-Cert Asts	Certain assets	China	15,000,000

82	June 21, 2005	Sybari Software	Software	United States	—

83	August 29, 2005	Teleo	VoIP	United States	—

84	August 31, 2005	FrontBridge Technologies	Email protection	United States	—

85	September 19, 2005	Alacris	Certificate management software	United States	—

86	November 3, 2005	media-streams.com	Software	Switzerland	—

87	November 17, 2005	5th Finger	Mobile	Australia	3,153,000

88	January 19, 2006	UMT-Software and IP Assets	Software	United States	—

89	February 13, 2006	MotionBridge	Search	France	17,858,000

90	February 13, 2006	Seadragon Software	Software	United States	—

91	March 7, 2006	Apptimum	Software	United States	—

92	March 7, 2006	Onfolio	Internet software	United States	—

93	April 6, 2006	Lionhead Studios	Video games	United Kingdom	—

94	April 26, 2006	AssetMetrix	Enterprise software	Canada	—

95	May 4, 2006	Massive Incorporated	Video game advertising	United States	—

96	May 4, 2006	Vexcel	Mapping software	United States	—

97	May 15, 2006	DeepMetrix	Web log analysis	United States	—

98	June 6, 2006	ProClarity	Analysis software	United States	—

99	June 27, 2006	iView Multimedia	Digital asset management	United Kingdom	—

100	July 17, 2006	Softricity	application virtualization software	United States	—

101	July 18, 2006	Winternals Software	Software	United States	—

102	July 26, 2006	Whale Communications	Applications	Israel	—

103	September 26, 2006	Gteko	Applications	Israel	—

104	October 2, 2006	DesktopStandard	Applications	United States	—

105	October 12, 2006	Colloquis	Natural language software	United States	—

106	March 9, 2007	Medstory	Internet search engine	United States	—

107	March 26, 2007	devBiz Business Solutions	Software tools	United States	—

108	May 3, 2007	ScreenTonic	Advertising and marketing	France	—

109	May 3, 2007	Tellme Networks	Mobile phone software	United States	—

110	May 9, 2007	SoftArtisans	Business Intelligence software	United States	—

111	June 4, 2007	Engyro	Information technology	United States	—

112	June 7, 2007	Stratature	Master Data Management	United States	—

113	June 29, 2007	Savvis Inc-Data Centers	Networking	United States	200,000,000

114	August 13, 2007	AdECN	Ad Exchange	United States	—

115	August 13, 2007	aQuantive	Digital marketing	United States	6.333×109

116	October 2, 2007	Jellyfish.com	Search engine	United States	—

117	October 5, 2007	Parlano	Enterprise messaging software	United States	—

118	October 29, 2007	Global Care Solutions-Assets	Assets	Thailand	—

119	November 1, 2007	HOB Business Solutions	Information technology	Denmark	—

120	November 15, 2007	Musiwave	Mobile music entertainment	France	—

121	December 12, 2007	Multimap.com	Mapping	United Kingdom	—

122	January 22, 2008	Calista Technologies	Software	United States	—

123	February 7, 2008	Caligari Corporation	Software	United States	—

124	February 27, 2008	YaData	Software	Israel	—

125	March 14, 2008	Rapt	Advertising yield management software	United States	—

126	March 19, 2008	Komoku	Rootkit security software	United States	5,000,000

127	March 31, 2008	90 Degree Software	Business intelligence software	Canada	—

128	April 14, 2008	Farecast	Online search software	United States	75,000,000

129	April 15, 2008	Danger	Mobile Internet software	United States	500,000,000

130	April 25, 2008	Fast Search & Transfer	Enterprise search[clarification needed]	Norway	1.191×109

131	May 26, 2008	Kidaro	Software	United States	—

132	June 4, 2008	Quadreon	Software	Belgium	—

133	June 18, 2008	Navic Networks	Management software	United States	—

134	June 26, 2008	Mobicomp	Mobile applications	Portugal	—

135	August 11, 2008	Powerset	Semantic Search	United States	—

136	September 16, 2008	DATAllegro	Data software	United States	—

137	September 28, 2008	Greenfield Online	Search and e-commerce services	United States	486,000,000

138	March 1, 2009	3DV Systems	Developer of ZCam, a time-of-flight camera	Israel	35,000,000

139	May 7, 2009	BigPark	Interactive online gaming	Canada	—

140	June 1, 2009	Rosetta Biosoftware	Bioinformatics solutions for life science research	United States	—

141	September 22, 2009	Interactive Supercomputing	Software	United States	—

142	December 10, 2009	Opalis Software	Software	Canada	—

143	February 2, 2010	Sentillion, Inc.	Software for the healthcare industry	United States	—

144	October 6, 2010	AVIcode, Inc.	.Net monitoring technology	United States	—

145	October 29, 2010	Canesta, Inc.	3-D sensing technology	United States	—

146	May 10, 2011	Skype Technologies	Telecommunications	Luxembourg	8.5×109

147	June 7, 2011	Prodiance	Software	United States	—

148	November 22, 2011	Videosurf	Video search	United States	100,000,000

149	June 25, 2012	Yammer	Social networking	United States	1.2×109

150	July 9, 2012	Perceptive Pixel	Multi touch hardware	United States	—

151	October 4, 2012	PhoneFactor	Two-factor authentication system	United States	—

152	October 16, 2012	StorSimple	Cloud-storage appliance vendor	United States	—

153	October 17, 2012	MarketingPilot	Marketing automation firm	United States	—

154	January 3, 2013	id8 Group R2 Studios	Home automation	United States	—

155	February 2, 2013	Pando Networks	Peer-to-peer (P2P) media distribution	United States	—

156	March 4, 2013	MetricsHub	Cloud monitoring	United States	—

157	March 19, 2013	Netbreeze	Social analytics	Switzerland	—

158	June 3, 2013	InRelease	Release management	Canada	—

159	September 2, 2013	Nokia mobile phones unit	Mobile phones, smartphones	Finland	7.2×109

160	October 12, 2013	HLW Software	RDP applications	Austria	—

161	October 25, 2013	Apiphany	API management	United States	—

162	January 7, 2014	Parature	Customer service software	United States	100,000,000

163	May 1, 2014	GreenButton	Cloud computing	New Zealand	—

164	May 1, 2014	Capptain	(Mobile) application development	France	—

165	July 2, 2014	SyntaxTree	Developer tools	France	—

166	July 11, 2014	InMage	Disaster recovery solutions	United States	—

167	August 1, 2014	Inception Mobile Inc.	Software	Canada	—

168	November 6, 2014	Mojang	Video games	Sweden	2.5×109

169	November 13, 2014	Aorato	Enterprise Security & machine learning	Israel	—

170	December 2, 2014	Acompli	Mobile Email Apps	United States	—

171	December 11, 2014	HockeyApp	Mobile Beta Distribution & Crash Analytics	Germany	—

172	January 20, 2015	Equivio	Text Analytics Service	Israel	—

173	January 23, 2015	Revolution Analytics	Statistical computing and predictive analytics	United States	—

174	February 4, 2015	Sunrise Atelier, Inc.	Sunrise Calendar applications	United States	100,000,000

175	February 12, 2015	N-trig	Styli and pen input hardware and software	Israel	200,000,000

176	March 26, 2015	LiveLoop	PowerPoint collaboration	United States	—

177	April 14, 2015	Datazen Software, Inc.	Mobile business intelligence & Data visualization	Canada	—

178	June 2, 2015	6 Wunderkinder GmbH	Wunderlist to-do list applications	Germany	—

179	June 10, 2015	BlueStripe Software	Application management	United States	—

180	July 16, 2015	FieldOne Systems LLC	Enterprise field service	United States	—

181	July 19, 2015	Adallom	Cloud security	Israel	320,000,000

182	August 3, 2015	Incent Games, LLC	Sales-gamification	United States	—

183	September 3, 2015	VoloMetrix, Inc.	Organisational analytics	United States	—

184	September 11, 2015	Double Labs, Inc.	Mobile lock screen software	United States	—

185	September 28, 2015	Adxstudio Inc.	Web portal and application lifecycle management solutions	Canada	—

186	October 2, 2015	Havok	Video game physics engine	Ireland	—

187	November 5, 2015	Mobile Data Labs, Inc.	MileIQ, a mileage tracking application	United States	—

188	November 9, 2015	Secure Islands Technologies Ltd.	Data protection	Israel	—

189	December 18, 2015	Metanautix	Big data analytics	United States	—

190	December 21, 2015	Talko, Inc.	Mobile communications	United States	—

191	January 19, 2016	Teacher Gaming LLC	Education software	Finland	—

192	February 3, 2016	TouchType, Ltd.	Virtual keyboard (SwiftKey)	United Kingdom	250,000,000

193	February 9, 2016	Groove	Music discovery	Canada	—

194	February 24, 2016	Xamarin	Mobile application development	United States	—

195	May 3, 2016	Solair	Internet of Things platform	Italy	—

196	August 8, 2016	Beam	Video game streaming	United States	—

197	August 20, 2016	Genee	AI-powered scheduling assistant service	United States	—

198	December 8, 2016	LinkedIn	Professional social network	United States	2.62×1010

199	January 13, 2017	Maluuba	Artificial intelligence	Canada	—

200	January 17, 2017	Simplygon	3D graphics optimization	Sweden	—

201	April 10, 2017	Deis	Container management	United States	—

202	April 18, 2017	Intentional Software	Intentional programming	United States	—

203	June 8, 2017	Hexadite	Cybersecurity	Israel	100,000,000

204	June 28, 2017	Cloudyn	Cloud business management	Israel	50,000,000

205	August 15, 2017	Cycle Computing	Cloud HPC	United States	—

206	October 3, 2017	AltspaceVR	Virtual reality	United States	—

207	November 7, 2017	SWNG	Cinemagraphic photo app	United States	—

208	January 29, 2018	Playfab	Gaming backend service	United States	—

209	May 18, 2018	Semantic Machines	Conversational AI	United States	—

210	June 11, 2018	Ninja Theory	Video games	United Kingdom	—

211	June 11, 2018	Undead Labs	Video games	United States	—

212	June 11, 2018	Compulsion Games	Video games	Canada	—

213	June 11, 2018	Playground Games	Video games	United Kingdom	—

214	June 18, 2018	Flipgrid	Education, video discussion platform	United States	—

215	June 20, 2018	Bonsai	Industrial AI platform	United States	—

216	September 13, 2018	Lobe	Artificial intelligence	United States	—

217	October 9, 2018	Glint	Employee engagement	United States	400,000,000

218	October 26, 2018	GitHub	Software development and version control platform	United States	7.5×109

219	November 10, 2018	inXile Entertainment	Video games	United States	—

220	November 10, 2018	Obsidian Entertainment	Video games	United States	—

221	November 14, 2018	XOXCO	Conversational AI	United States	—

222	November 19, 2018	FSLogix	Application provisioning and virtualization	United States	—

223	November 30, 2018	Spectrum	Social networks for design and development	United States	—

224	January 24, 2019	Citus Data	A leader in the PostgreSQL community	United States	—

225	April 18, 2019	Express Logic	A leader in real time operating systems (RTOS) for IoT and edge devices	United States	—

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Microsoft purchased aQuantive on August 13, 2007.

final_sentence: Microsoft purchased aQuantive on August 13, 2007.