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PlaceWare was founded in 1996 as a spin-off

Spin-off (media)

In media, a spin-off is a radio program, television program, video game, or any narrative work, derived from one or more already existing works, that focuses, in particular, in more detail on one aspect of that original work...

from Xerox PARC

Xerox PARC

PARC , formerly Xerox PARC, is a research and co-development company in Palo Alto, California, with a distinguished reputation for its contributions to information technology and hardware systems....

by Pavel Curtis

Pavel Curtis

Pavel Curtis is an American software architect at Microsoft who is best known for having founded and managed LambdaMOO, an online community...

http://www.keltis.us/blog/archives/2007/09/entrepreneurshi.html, the founder of LambdaMOO

LambdaMOO

LambdaMOO is an online community of the variety called a MOO. It is the oldest MOO today.LambdaMOO was founded in late 1990 or early 1991 by Pavel Curtis at Xerox PARC. Now hosted in the state of Washington, it is operated and administered entirely on a volunteer basis...

, Mike Dixonhttp://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/mike/dixon, David Nicholshttp://www.spoke.com/info/pDVhFB/DavidNichols, Richard Brucehttp://www.parc.com/about/people/26/richard-bruce.html, and Bob Krivacichttp://www.parc.com/about/people/106/bob-krivacic.html.

In 2003, 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...

acquired PlaceWare and renamed its core product Microsoft Office Live Meeting.

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