Microsoft is Buying Stuff

By Paul Kedrosky · May 13, 2006 · ·

From yesterday’s VC day at Microsoft:

  • Over the past 12 months Microsoft has made 22 acquisitions totaling
    nearly $1B.
  • The company made 9 acquisitions the previous year.

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Comments

  1. shawn says:
    May 13, 2006 at 4:28 pm

    Shareholders will prefer to share some the cash back in forms of dividends. Especially in last 5 years the stock performance has been so dismal, microsoft’s buying sprees fails to impress.

  2. Alex says:
    May 17, 2006 at 3:28 pm

    Oh, they acquired Lionhead Studios.
    Waiting for some cool games for Xbox :)