Trademarks

• 343 Industries
  343 Industries
  343 Industries, usually shortened to 343i, is an American video game developer located in Kirkland, Washington. It was established in 2007 by Microsoft Game Studios to oversee development of the Halo science fiction media franchise, which includes video games, novels, comics, and other multimedia...
  
   - Video game developer, "successor" to Bungie Studios
• Microsoft
  Microsoft
  Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
  
  
• Windows
  Microsoft Windows
  Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
  
   including Windows XP
  Windows XP
  Windows XP is an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops and media centers. First released to computer manufacturers on August 24, 2001, it is the second most popular version of Windows, based on installed user base...
  
  , Windows Me
  Windows Me
  Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows Me , is a graphical operating system released on September 14, 2000 by Microsoft, and was the last operating system released in the Windows 9x series. Support for Windows Me ended on July 11, 2006....
  
  , Windows NT
  Windows NT
  Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. It was a powerful high-level-language-based, processor-independent, multiprocessing, multiuser operating system with features comparable to Unix. It was intended to complement...
  
  , Windows Vista
  Windows Vista
  Windows Vista is an operating system released in several variations developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs, and media center PCs...
  
  , Windows 7
• Microsoft Disk Operating System
  MS-DOS
  MS-DOS is an operating system for x86-based personal computers. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems, and was the main operating system for IBM PC compatible personal computers during the 1980s to the mid 1990s, until it was gradually superseded by operating...
  
   (MS-DOS)
• DirectX
  DirectX
  Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all began with Direct, such as Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay,...
  
   - Windows library for audio, user input, and 2D/3D graphics (software)
• Xbox
  Xbox
  The Xbox is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Microsoft. It was released on November 15, 2001 in North America, February 22, 2002 in Japan, and March 14, 2002 in Australia and Europe and is the predecessor to the Xbox 360. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console...
  
   - Game Console
• Microsoft Office System and Microsoft Works
  Microsoft Works
  Microsoft Works is an integrated package software that is produced by Microsoft. Works is smaller, less expensive, and has fewer features than Microsoft Office or other major office suites. Its core functionality includes a word processor, a spreadsheet and a database management system...
  
  
• Microsoft Windows Server or Windows Server 2003
• MSN TV
  MSN TV
  MSN TV is the name of both a thin client which uses a television for display , and the online service that supports it....
  
   - Digital Cable TV Topbox
• Microsoft SLPS - Software Licensing and Protection Services
• Virtual PC - PC virtualization software acquired from Connectix
  Connectix
  Connectix Corporation was a software and hardware company, noted for having released innovative products that were either made obsolete as Apple Computer incorporated the ideas into system software, or were sold to other companies once they become popular...
  
  
• Microsoft SQL Server
  Microsoft SQL Server
  Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database server, developed by Microsoft: It is a software product whose primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested by other software applications, be it those on the same computer or those running on another computer across a network...
  
   - Database server
• Microsoft Exchange Server
  Microsoft Exchange Server
  Microsoft Exchange Server is the server side of a client–server, collaborative application product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Servers line of server products and is used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure products...
  
   - Email / groupware server
• Microsoft Biztalk Server
  Microsoft BizTalk Server
  Microsoft BizTalk Server, often referred to as simply "BizTalk", is an Enterprise Service Bus. Through the use of "adapters" which are tailored to communicate with different software systems used in an enterprise, it enables companies to automate business processes...
  
   - Middleware
• Microsoft Host Integration Server - Middleware
• Microsoft SharePoint
  Microsoft SharePoint
  Microsoft SharePoint is a web application platform developed by Microsoft. First launched in 2001, SharePoint is typically associated with web content management and document management systems, but it is actually a much broader platform of web technologies, capable of being configured into a wide...
  
   - Collaboration Software
• Microsoft SideWinder
  Microsoft SideWinder
  Microsoft SideWinder is the general name given to the family of digital game controllers developed by Microsoft for PCs. Although intended only for use with Microsoft Windows, Microsoft SideWinder game controllers can also be used with Apple's Mac OS X and Linux .The SideWinder describes many types...
  
   - digital game controllers
• Microsoft Business Solutions - A collection of CRM, ERP, and BPM tools
• MSN
  MSN
  MSN is a collection of Internet sites and services provided by Microsoft. The Microsoft Network debuted as an online service and Internet service provider on August 24, 1995, to coincide with the release of the Windows 95 operating system.The range of services offered by MSN has changed since its...
  
   - an Internet service provider
  Internet service provider
  An Internet service provider is a company that provides access to the Internet. Access ISPs directly connect customers to the Internet using copper wires, wireless or fiber-optic connections. Hosting ISPs lease server space for smaller businesses and host other people servers...
  
  
• Microsoft Zune - a digital music player
• Microsoft Word
  Microsoft Word
  Microsoft Word is a word processor designed by Microsoft. It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including IBM PCs running DOS , the Apple Macintosh , the AT&T Unix PC , Atari ST , SCO UNIX,...
  
   (now Microsoft Office Word) - A word processor

Investments

• @Home Solutions (1999)
• Accel Partners
  Accel Partners
  Accel Partners is a global venture and growth equity firm funding companies from inception through the growth stage.The firm is based in Palo Alto, California with major offices in Bangalore, Beijing, London, and Shanghai....
  
   (1998)
• Akamai Technologies
  Akamai Technologies
  Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an Internet content delivery network headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.The company was founded in 1998 by then-MIT graduate student Daniel M. Lewin, and MIT Applied Mathematics professor Tom Leighton...
  
   Inc. (1999)
• Ameranth (2000)
• American City Business Journals
  American City Business Journals
  American City Business Journals is an American newspaper chain based in Charlotte, North Carolina owned by Advance Publications. It has a range of media including 41 primary metropolitan weekly publications, which reach 4 million readers with business community related news, and Bizjournals, the...
  
   (2001)
• Amicore (2001)
• Apple Inc (1997)
• Ardent Communications
  Ardent Communications
  Ardent Communications is a broadband Internet access company based in the United States. It was acquired by Cisco Systems on June 24, 1997....
  
   Inc. (2000)
• Asia Global Crossing Ltd. (1999)
• AT&T
  AT&T
  AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...
  
   (1999)
• Audible
  Audible.com
  Audible.com is an Internet provider of spoken audio entertainment, information, and educational programming.Audible sells digital audiobooks, radio and TV programs, and audio versions of magazines and newspapers....
  
   (1999, 2001)
• Avanade
  Avanade
  Avanade Inc., a subsidiary of Accenture LLP., is a multinational IT consulting and software company that develops business software from a Microsoft products platform. Founded on April 4, 2000, Avanade is atypical amongst many systems integrators such as IBM and EDS in that Avanade's services are...
  
   (2000)
• Avid Technology
  Avid Technology
  Avid Technology, Inc. is an American company specializing in video and audio production technology; specifically, digital non-linear editing systems, management and distribution services. It was created in 1987 and became a publicly traded company in 1993...
  
   (1998)
• Banyan Systems
  Banyan (company)
  Banyan Systems, Inc. was founded in 1983 by David C. Mahoney, a software engineer and mid-level manager at Data General, Larry Floryan and Anand Jagannathan. The company's distinctive logo, a Banyan tree, and the logo's allegorical representation of Banyan's product suite, VINES, were conceived by...
  
   (1999)
• BayStar Capital
  BayStar Capital
  The LRG Capital Funds are managed by LRG Capital Group, LLC. Through its BayStar Capital III Investment Fund, a multi-strategy investment fund, the firm makes direct investments in small-to mid capitalization, public and late-stage private companies, primarily within the technology and life...
  
   (2003)
• Best Buy
  Best Buy
  Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American specialty retailer of consumer electronics in the United States, accounting for 19% of the market. It also operates in Mexico, Canada & China. The company's subsidiaries include Geek Squad, CinemaNow, Magnolia Audio Video, Pacific Sales, and, in Canada operates...
  
   (1999)
• Big Huge Games
  Big Huge Games
  Big Huge Games is a video game developer located in Timonium, Maryland. The company was founded in February 2000 by four veteran game industry developers: Tim Train, David Inscore, Jason Coleman and Brian Reynolds...
  
   (2000)
• Borland
  Borland
  Borland Software Corporation is a software company first headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, Cupertino, California and finally Austin, Texas. It is now a Micro Focus subsidiary. It was founded in 1983 by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad and Philippe Kahn.-The 1980s:...
  
   (1999)
• Black Entertainment Television
  Black Entertainment Television
  Black Entertainment Television is an American, Viacom-owned cable network based in Washington, D.C.. Currently viewed in more than 90 million homes worldwide, it is the most prominent television network targeting young Black-American audiences. The network was launched on January 25, 1980, by its...
  
   (BET) (1996)
• Blackboard Inc.
  Blackboard Inc.
  Blackboard Inc. is an enterprise software company with its corporate headquarters in Washington, D.C. and is primarily known as a developer of education software, in particular learning management systems. Blackboard was founded by CEO Michael Chasen and chairman Matthew Pittinsky in 1997 and...
  
   (2001)
• Blixer (Italy, 2000)
• BroadBand Office Inc (2000)
• Bungie
  Bungie
  Bungie, Inc is an American video game developer currently located in Bellevue, Washington, USA. The company was established in May 1991 by University of Chicago undergraduate student Alex Seropian, who later brought in programmer Jason Jones after publishing Jones' game Minotaur: The Labyrinths of...
  
   (Buyout: 2000; Separation: 2007)
• CareerBuilder
  CareerBuilder
  CareerBuilder.com is the largest online employment website in the United States, with more than 23 million unique visitors each month and a 34% market share of help-wanted web sites in the United States. CareerBuilder.com provides online career search services for more than 1,900 partners as of...
  
   (1999)
• Chyron Corporation
  Chyron Corporation
  The Chyron Corporation is a Melville, N.Y.-based company that develops products and services for digital broadcast graphics creation. The company’s solutions, which include the AXIS Graphics online content creation software and order management system and a range of on-air graphics systems, clip...
  
   (2000)
• CMG
  CMG (company)
  CMG was a consulting company focused on telecommunications and computing and based in London, United Kingdom. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but was acquired by Logica in 2002.-History:...
  
   Plc (UK, 1996)
• CMGI
  CMGI
  ModusLink Global Solutions, formerly CMGI Inc., is an American technology and venture capital company, headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company supplies a range of internet and communications services, mostly to computer companies, its biggest customer being Hewlett-Packard Company...
  
   Inc (1998)
• Comcast Corporation (1997)
• Commerce One
  Commerce One
  Commerce One was a pioneering e-commerce company founded in 1994 as DistriVision in Pleasanton, California. The company was renamed Commerce One in 1997, and went public in 1999. They were one of the darlings in the hot B2B sector, and saw their stock soar from 20 to over 600 in early 2000,...
  
   Inc (2001)
• CommTouch Software Inc (1999)
• CommVault Systems Inc (2000)
• CompUSA
  CompUSA
  CompUSA is a retailer and reseller of consumer electronics, technology products and computer services. Its headquarters are in Miami, Florida.Until its reorganization, CompUSA, Inc. was a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Commercial Corp S.A.B...
  
   Inc (2000)
• Concentric Network Corporation (1999)
• ContentGuard (2000)
• Corel
  Corel
  Corel Corporation from the abbreviation is a computer software company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, that specializes in graphics processing, similar to Adobe Systems...
  
   Corporation (Canada, 2000)
• Corio Inc (2000)
• CPA2Biz (2001)
• CSI, Inc (2000)
• Data Return LLC (1999)
• Dialogic
  Dialogic
  The English terms dialogic and dialogism often refer to the concept used by the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin in his work of literary theory, The Dialogic Imagination. Bakhtin contrasts the dialogic and the "monologic" work of literature. The dialogic work carries on a continual dialogue...
  
   (1999)
• Digital Anvil
  Digital Anvil
  Digital Anvil was a computer game company. It was founded in 1996, when Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts left Origin Systems, Inc., along with many other employees....
  
   (1997)
• Digital Entertainment Network
  Digital Entertainment Network
  Digital Entertainment Network was a multimedia and web television dot-com company.-Founding:Rector hired traditional media executives from Broadcast TV, Film, Commercials, Documentary and Cable to create a destination website featuring serialized "6 minute shows" on the internet.Launched in 1996,...
  
   (DEN) (1999)
• Digital Equipment Corporation
  Digital Equipment Corporation
  Digital Equipment Corporation was a major American company in the computer industry and a leading vendor of computer systems, software and peripherals from the 1960s to the 1990s...
  
   (1995)
• Digital Island
  Digital Island
  Digital Island Communications is a 100% Kiwi owned business telecommunications provider based in Auckland, New Zealand. Winners of the Deloitte Fast 50 awards for "Fastest growing technology company" in 2008, and "Fastest growing telecommunications business" in 2007, Digital Island also placed...
  
   (2000)
• Digital Sound Corporation (1997)
• DiscoverMusic.com (1999)
• DreamWorks SKG (1995)
• DSL.net Inc (1999)
• eFusion (1997)
• eLabor (2000)
• Encompys (2001)
• ENDFORCE Inc (2002)
• Entex (1996)
• Equinix Inc (1999)
• Evoke Software Corp (2000)
• Expedia.com (1999)
• Extreme Logic  (2001)
• FaceBook
  Facebook
  Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
  
    (2007)
• FairMarket Inc (1999)
• First Data Corporation (1997)
• FutureLink Corporation (2000)
• General Magic
  General Magic
  General Magic was a company co-founded by Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld and Marc Porat that developed a new kind of handheld communications device they called a "personal intelligent communicator", which was a PDA precursor that stressed communications....
  
   (1998)
• GigaMedia Ltd (Taiwan, 1999)
• Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd (Israel, 2000)
• Groove Networks Inc (2001)
• Helicon Publishing Group PLC (UK, 1996)
• Hitachi
  Hitachi, Ltd.
  is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The company is the parent of the Hitachi Group as part of the larger DKB Group companies...
  
   Ltd (Japan, 2000)
• HomeAdvisor Technologies (2000)
• Hutchison Global Crossing Ltd (Hong Kong) (2000)
• i-Deal (2001)
• Immersion Corporation
  Immersion Corporation
  Immersion Corporation of San Jose, California, is a developer of haptic technology.The company was founded in 1993. Immersion's technology is employed in automotive, entertainment, medical training, mobility, personal computing, and three-dimensional simulation applications. Immersion's patent...
  
   (2003)
• Individual Inc (1995)
• Infolibria Inc (2001)
• Interland, Inc (2000)
• Interliant (2000)
• Intertainer (2000)
• ITRAN Communications Ltd (Israel, 2000)
• Jato Communications (2000)
• Keen.com (1999)
• Korea Thrunet Co. Ltd (1999)
• KT Corporation (Korea) (2001)
• Lernout & Hauspie
  Lernout & Hauspie
  Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, or L&H, was a leading Belgium-based speech recognition technology company, founded by Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie, that went bankrupt in 2001...
  
   (Belgium, 1997)
• MEASAT Broadcast Network Systems (Malaysia, 2000)
• MediaWave Inc (UK, 2001)
• MyPlant.com (2000)
• Navitel Communications Inc (1997)
• NBC
  NBC
  The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
  
   Television Network (1995)
• Net Serviços de Comunicação S.A (Brazil, 1999)
• Nextel Communications Inc (1999)
• NorthPoint Communications Group Inc (1999)
• Novell
  Novell
  Novell, Inc. is a multinational software and services company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Attachmate Group. It specializes in network operating systems, such as Novell NetWare; systems management solutions, such as Novell ZENworks; and collaboration solutions, such as Novell Groupwise...
  
  , Inc (2006)
• NTL Inc (UK, 1999)
• OpenPort (1998)
• Plural Inc (2000)
• Pluto Technologies (Norway, 1998)
• Portugal Telecom
  Portugal Telecom
  Portugal Telecom is the largest telecommunications service provider in Portugal. Although it operates mainly in Portugal and Brazil, it has also a significant presence in Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Timor-Leste, Angola, Kenya, the People's Republic of China, and São Tomé and...
  
  , SGPS, S.A. (1999)
• Proginet Corporation (1996)- sold circa 2002
• Qwest Communications (1998)
• Radiant Systems
  Radiant Systems
  Radiant Systems is a provider of technology to the hospitality and retail industries that is based in Atlanta, Georgia. Radiant has been publicly traded since 1997, and exceeded $300 million in revenue in 2008. Radiant employs over 1,300 worldwide...
  
   (2000)
• RadioShack
  RadioShack
  RadioShack Corporation   is an American franchise of electronics retail stores in the United States, as well as parts of Europe, South America and Africa. As of 2008, RadioShack reported net sales and operating revenues of $4.81 billion. The headquarters of RadioShack is located in Downtown...
  
   Corporation (1999)
• RealNames
  RealNames
  RealNames was a company founded in 1997 by Keith Teare. Its goal was to create a multilingual keyword-based naming system for the Internet that would translate keywords typed into the address bar of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser to Uniform Resource Identifiers, based on the existing...
  
   (2000)
• RealNetworks
  RealNetworks
  RealNetworks, Inc. is a provider of Internet media delivery software and services based in Downtown Seattle, Washington, United States. The company is the creator of RealAudio, a compressed audio format; RealVideo, a compressed video format; RealPlayer, a media player; RealDownloader, a download...
  
   (1997)
• Reciprocal Inc (1999)
• Reservation Works LLC (1998)
• Rhythms NetConnections
  Rhythms NetConnections
  Rhythms NetConnections Inc. was in the business of providing broadband local-access communication services to large enterprises, telecommunications carriers and their internet service provider affiliates and other ISPs...
  
   Inc (1999)
• Road Runner (1998)
• Rogers Communications
  Rogers Communications
  Rogers Communications Inc. is one of Canada's largest communications companies, particularly in the field of wireless communications, cable television, home phone and internet with additional telecommunications and mass media assets...
  
   (Canada) (1999)
• SCO Group
  SCO Group
  TSG Group, Inc. is a software company formerly called The SCO Group, Caldera Systems, and Caldera International. After acquiring the Santa Cruz Operation's Server Software and Services divisions, as well as UnixWare and OpenServer technologies, the company changed its focus to UNIX...
  
   (2003)
• SeaChange International (2000)
• Sendo Holdings PLC (UK, 2001)
• SingleTrac Entertainment Technologies
  SingleTrac
  SingleTrac Entertainment Technologies was a video game developer, mostly for the PlayStation platform. The management team and much of the original development team came from Evans & Sutherland, bringing their 3D graphics and software engineering skills into the video game industry.Its most famous...
  
   (1996)
• SkyTel (1996)
• SMART LLC (Mexico, 2001)
• SRS Labs
  SRS Labs
  SRS Labs, Inc. , is a Santa Ana, California-based audio technology engineering company that specializes in audio enhancement solutions for wide variety of consumer electronic devices. Originally a part of Hughes Aircraft Company, the audio division developed the Sound Retrieval System technology,...
  
   (2000)
• Stamps.com
  Stamps.com
  Stamps.com is a Los Angeles, California-based company that provides Internet-based mailing and shipping services. Stamps.com is a public company and trades on the NYSE exchange under the symbol STMP.- History :On April 13, 1998, the U.S...
  
   Inc (1997)
• Tandem
  Tandem
  Tandem is an arrangement where a team of machines, animals or people are lined up one behind another, all facing in the same direction....
  
   (1996)
• TCI International Inc
  TCI
  -Medicine:*Transient Cerebral Ischaemic attack, see Transient ischemic attack*Tricyclic antidepressant medication*Target Controlled Infusion, a method for controlling intravenous infusions.-Psychology:*Theme-Centered Interaction, a method of psychotherapy by Dr...
  
  (1994)
• Telecom New Zealand
  Telecom New Zealand
  Telecom New Zealand is a New Zealand-wide communications service provider , providing fixed line telephone services, a mobile network, an internet service provider , a major ICT provider to NZ businesses , and a wholesale network infrastructure provider to other NZ CSPs...
  
   (2001)
• Telewest Group Inc 22.9% (2000  - 2003)
• Grupo Televisa, S.A. — A Mexican television company
• Teligent Inc (1999)
• Telmex
  Telmex
  Telmex is a telecommunications company headquartered in Mexico City that provides telecommunication products and services in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil and other countries in Latin America. In addition to traditional fixed-line telephone service, Telmex also offers Internet access, data,...
  
   (Mexico, 1999)
• ThingWorld.com (1999)
• Ticketmaster
  Ticketmaster
  Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. is an independent American ticket sales and distribution company based in West Hollywood, California, USA, with operations in many countries around the world. In 2010 it merged with Live Nation to become Live Nation Entertainment...
  
   (1999)
• TITUS Communications (Japan, 2000)
• TRADOS Incorporated (1997)
• Tut Systems Inc (1998)
• UGC Europe (1999)
• UnitedGlobalCom Inc (1999)
• Usinternetworking Inc (2000)
• USWeb
  USWeb
  USWeb is currently an Internet marketing company going by the same name as the original USWeb of the 1990s. The original USWeb was founded as a web design and site engineering company which expanded during the dot-com boom into online strategy consulting and online marketing...
  
   (1999)
• UUNET
  UUNET
  UUNET founded in 1987, was one of the largest Internet service providers and one of the nine Tier 1 networks. It was based in Northern Virginia and was the first commercial Internet service provider...
  
   (1995, Divested)
• Vanstar(1995)
• VDOnet (1996)
• VenturCom (2000)
• VeriSign
  VeriSign
  Verisign, Inc. is an American company based in Dulles, Virginia that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the .com, .net, and .name generic top-level domains and the .cc and .tv country-code...
  
   (1996)
• VerticalNet
  VerticalNet
  Verticalnet Inc. was a "provider of On-Demand Supply Management solutions to companies ranging in size from mid-market to the Global 2000" and host of business-to-business procurement portals...
  
   (2000)
• Wang
  Wang Laboratories
  Wang Laboratories was a computer company founded in 1951 by Dr. An Wang and Dr. G. Y. Chu. The company was successively headquartered in Cambridge , Tewksbury , and finally in Lowell, Massachusetts . At its peak in the 1980s, Wang Laboratories had annual revenues of $3 billion and employed over...
  
   (1995)
• WebMD
  WebMD
  WebMD is an American corporation which provides health information services. It was founded in 1996 by Jim Clark and Pavan Nigam as Healthscape, later Healtheon, and then acquired WebMD in 1999 to form Healtheon/WebMD...
  
   (1999)
• Wildfire Communications (1997)
• Wink Communications (1999)
• WirelessKnowledge (1998)
• Yam Digital Technology (Taiwan, 2000)

External links

• Microsoft list of investments and acquisitions.