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  2. List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft acquired Seattle-based Visio Corporation on January 7, 2000, for $1.375 billion (~$2.31 billion in 2023). Visio, a software company, was founded in 1990 as Axon Corporation, and had its initial public offering in November 1995. [ 9 ]

  3. Microsoft - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. [2] Founded in 1975, the company became highly influential in the rise of personal computers through software like Windows, and the company has since expanded to Internet services, cloud computing, video gaming and other fields.

  4. History of Microsoft - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. [1] Its current best-selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system; Microsoft Office, a suite of productivity software; Xbox, a line of entertainment of games, music, and video; Bing, a line of search engines; and Microsoft ...

  5. Timeline of Microsoft - Wikipedia

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    Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft. [1] As a result of Microsoft's founding, Traf-O-Data became defunct. 1975 April 4 Products Microsoft released its first product which is called the Altair BASIC. 1978: November 1: International: The company's first international office was founded on November 1, 1978, in Japan, entitled "ASCII ...

  6. Acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft - Wikipedia

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    Spencer and Microsoft president Brad Smith reassured that Microsoft will continue these existing agreements and expressed their desire to keep Call of Duty and other popular Activision Blizzard games on PlayStation beyond the terms of these agreements, as well as explore the opportunity to bring these games to the Nintendo consoles.

  7. Microsoft Corp. - Wikipedia

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  8. Outline of Microsoft - Wikipedia

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    The Microsoft sign at the entrance of the Dubai Microsoft campus, Dubai Internet City.Microsoft has developed Arabic versions for most of its products. Microsoft Corporation is a multinational corporation based in Redmond, Washington, USA and founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to ...

  9. Microsoft Gaming - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Gaming is an American multinational video game and digital entertainment division of Microsoft based in Redmond, Washington established in 2022. Its five development and publishing labels consist of: Xbox Game Studios, Bethesda Softworks (publisher of ZeniMax Media), Activision, Blizzard Entertainment, and King (the latter three are publishers of Activision Blizzard). [2]