2007
* aQuantive, Inc - May 2007. MS largest acquisition so far, valued at $6 billion.
* ScreenTonic SA, Paris, France - May 2007 [1] - Mobile advertising solutions
* devBiz Business Solutions, Izmir, Turkey - March 2007 - Web interface for Microsoft Team Foundation Server
* Tellme Networks, Inc., California, USA - March 2007 - Voice services, Estm. $800 million
* Medstory, Inc, California, USA - February 2007 - Health care search technology
* Secured Dimensions, Israel - January 2007 - Secured Software Provisioning, $10M[citation needed].
2006
* Colloquis Inc. New York, New York and Sunnyvale, California - October 2006 - Intelligent agents
* DesktopStandard Corporation, Portsmouth, New Hampshire - September 2006 - Group policy-based enterprise desktop management
* Gteko, Ra’anana, Israel - September 2006 - Networking and support software manufacturer
* Azzyxi, Washington - July 2006
* Winternals, Austin, Texas - July 2006 - System recover and data protection tools, Sysinternals freeware tools provider
* Softricity, Inc. Boston, Massachusetts, USA - July 2006, Application Virtualization and Application Streaming
* iView Multimedia, London, England - June 2006 - Digital Asset Management software for Macintosh and Windows
* Whale Communications - May 2006 - Firewall-Specialist, $75 million
* DeepMetrix Corporation, Quebec, Canada - May 2006 - Business intelligence solutions
* Massive Inc. - May 2006 - Ingame-Advertising
* AssetMetrix Corporation, Ontario, Canada - April 2006 - Asset-management and Business intelligence
* Lionhead Studios - April 2006 - Games Developer
* ProClarity - April 2006 - Business-Intelligence-Specialist
* Vexcel, Boulder, Colorado - March 2006 - Satellite Imaging
* Apptimum, Inc, Florida, USA - March 2006 - PC Settings/User State Migration Software
* StringBean Target, Maryland, USA - March 2006 - iSCSI SAN solution
* Onfolio, Massacheussets, USA - March 2006 - Internet search and information management provider
* MotionBridge, Paris, France - February 2006 - Search technology for mobile operators & the mobile Internet
* DynaComm i:filter product from FutureSoft, Houston, Texas - February 2006 - Only the web filtering product
2005
* GeoTango, Toronto, Canada - December 23, 2005 - 3D mapping and visualization GeoTango
* UMT, New York, USA - December 2005 - Project & portfolio management software
* FolderShare, Austin, Texas - November 4, 2005 - Remote Access and Synchronization Software
* MediaStreams, Switzerland - November 3, 2005 - VoIP Software
* Certain technologies from Unveil Technologies Inc., October 2005 - For Microsoft Speech Server
* Alacris, Ottawa, Canada - September 2005 - Identity and Access Management Solutions Provider
* Teleo - VoIP
* Frontbridge Inc., California - July 2005 - Email Protection Services
* MessageCast Inc. May 2005 - Automated alerting and messaging services
* Groove Networks Inc., Beverly, Massachusetts - March 10, 2005 - Collaboration software , $120 million
* ContentGuard (jointly acquired) - March 2005 - DRM technologies
* FRx Software Corporation - March 2005 - Financial analytic applications
* Sybari Software Inc., East Northport, New York - February 8, 2005 - Anti-virus, anti-spam, and content-filtering add-ons - between $163 million and $182 million
* Certain technology from En'tegrate Software LLC - February 2005 - Axapta-related technology
2004
* GIANT Company Software, Inc., New York City, New York - December 16, 2004 - Spyware protection, detection and removal tool
* Lookout Software LLC, Palo Alto, California – July 19, 2004 - E-mail and desktop search - $10 million
* Accounting products from Encore Business Solutions, Inc. - April 2004
* ActiveViews Inc. - April 2004 - Ad hoc reporting product
2003
* Creature House Ltd., Hong Kong – November 6, 2003 - Natural media drawing software
* RAV Antivirus technology from Romanian company GECAD - June 11, 2003
* PlaceWare Inc., Mountain View, California – May 1, 2003 - Online Web conferencing service - $200 million
* Connectix, San Mateo, California - February 2003 - Virtual PC and Virtual Server
2002
* Vicinity Corp., Palo Alto, California- October 2002 - Internet-based marketing infrastructure services - $105 million
* Rare Ltd., United Kingdom - September 29, 2002 - Video games - $375 million
* Navision Software A/S, Vedbaek, Denmark – May 21, 2002 - Business applications, ERP - $1.33 billion
2001
* Ensemble Studios, Dallas, Texas- May 3, 2001 – Video games
* NCompass Labs Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - April 30, 2001- Web content-management solutions - $36 million
* Great Plains Software Inc., Fargo, North Dakota - April, 2001 - Business applications, accounting - $1.4 billion
2000
* Digital Anvil Inc., Austin, Texas - December 5, 2000 – Video games
* Pacific Microsonics Inc., Union City, California - September 18, 2000 - Digital music software
* MongoMusic, San Mateo, California - September 13, 2000 - Online service with advanced music-searching capabilities- $65 million
* NetGames USA, Overland Park, Kansas - July 12, 2000 - Scoring, matchmaking and other enhancements for retail and Web-based games
* Bungie Software Products Corp., Chicago, Illinois - June 19, 2000 - Action oriented computer and video games
* Driveoff.Com, Littleton, Colorado - June 12, 2000 – Online car sales
* Peach Network LLC, Tel Aviv, Israel- February 29, 2000 - Enhanced television services for digital television
1999
* Entropic Research Laboratory Inc., Cambridge, UK and Washington DC - October 29, 1999 - Speech recognition software - $90 million
* Softway Systems Inc. San Francisco, California - September 17, 1999 – Customer interoperability solutions
* Visio Corp., Seattle, Washington - September 15, 1999 – Enterprise-wide business diagramming and technical drawing software - $1.4 billion
* STNC Enterprises, Suffolk, UK - July 21, 1999 - Internet access solutions for wireless products
* Sendit AB, Stockholm, Sweden - July 1, 1999 - Mobile Internet solutions - $130 million
* OmniBrowse Inc. Bellevue, Washington, - June 15, 1999 - Applications for wireless handheld devices - $400 million
* ShadowFactor Software Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - June 7, 1999 – Video games - $120 million
* Jump Networks Inc., Ithaca, New York - April 26, 1999 - Web-based calendar services
* Access Software Inc. Hialeah, Florida - April 19, 1999 - sports simulation software and adventure games
* CompareNet Inc., San Francisco, California - March 4, 1999 - Online comparison-shopping service
* Numinous Technology, Inc., Seattle, Washington – March 29, 1999 - Internet graphics, digital video management and traditional printing applications
* FASA Interactive Technologies, Chicago, Illinois – January 7, 1999 - Video game division of long-ailing board game and role-playing game vendor
* ZOOMIT Corp, Toronto - July 7, 1999 - meta-directory products
1998
* LinkExchange Inc., San Francisco, California - November 5, 1998 - advertising network - $250 million
* Valence Research Inc., Beaverton, Oregon - August 25, 1998 - Advanced clustering software
* MESA Group Inc., Newton, Massachusetts - April 28, 1998 - Messaging and applications migration products
* Firefly Network Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts - April 9, 1998 - Personalization software - $40 million
* Flash Communications - February 23, 1998 - Messaging client/server product
1997
* Vxtreme Inc., Sunnyvale, California - August 5, 1997 - Web Theater technology - $75 million
* LinkAge Software Inc. Toronto, Ontario, Canada - June 30, 1997 - Connectivity solutions for e-mail software - $30 million
* Cooper & Peters Inc., Boulder, Colorado - June 13, 1997 - Object-oriented user-interface frameworks and applications - $20 million
* Dimension X, San Francisco, California - May 7, 1997 - Multimedia technology [61]
* WebTV Networks Inc. Mountain View, California- April 6, 1997 - Enhanced TV services using Internet and digital technologies - $425 million
* Intersé Corp., Huntington, West Virginia - March 4, 1997 - Software for analyzing user activity on World Wide Web sites
* Hotmail Corp., Sunnyvale, California, - January 3, 1997 - Webmail service - $395 million
1996
* NetCarta Corp., Scotts Valley, California - December 10, 1996 - Web-site management software - $20 million
* ResNova Software Inc., Huntington Beach, California - November 20, 1996 - Web server products
* eShop Inc., San Mateo, California - June 11, 1996 - Internet commerce software
* EXOS Inc., Woburn, Massachusetts - April 15, 1996 - Force feedback technology for game control devices
* Vermeer Technologies Inc - January 16, 1996 - Visual, standards-based Web publishing tools - $130 million
* Colusa Software Inc., Berkeley, California - March 12, 1996 - Object-oriented programming software for the Internet
1995
* Bruce Artwick Organization Ltd., formerly subLOGIC Corporation, Champaign, Illinois, - December 12, 1995 - Entertainment software (Flight Simulator), 3-D graphics packages -
* Blue Ribbon Soundworks Ltd, Atlanta, Georgia - October 16, 1995 - Interactive music software for games
* RenderMorphics Ltd. - February 23, 1995 - RealityLab software for 3d graphics, later rebadged by Microsoft as "Direct3D 3.0"
1994
* One Tree Software. - November 15, 1994 - Version Control software, SourceSafe
* Softimage Inc., Montreal, Quebec, Canada - June 28, 1994 - High-end 3-D animation software - sold later to Avid Technology Inc. on June 15, 1998
1992
* Fox Software, Perrysburg, Ohio – 1992 – Database software - $173 million
1991
* Consumers Software Inc., Vancouver, BC, Canada - April 1, 1991 - The Network Courier
1987
* Forethought Inc., Sunnyvale, California - August 3, 1987 - Presentation and graphics software
1986
* Dynamical Systems Research Ltd, Berkeley, California – 1986 - Multitasking operating system - $1.5 million
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