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Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin by hngiszmo on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @11:17PM (#11172354)
those were aquisitions by Google. Now a list of Microsoft:
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Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin by slg on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @11:46PM (#11172445)
There are some success stories even just limiting it to enterprise software. PowerPoint, Visio, and many products in the Dynamics family started out as acquisitions.
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Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin by TheLogothete on Thursday February 25, 2016 @03:53AM (#11173193)
Not to mention SQL Server.
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Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin by pianoben on Thursday February 25, 2016 @01:04AM (#11172659)
The Acompli (now Outlook Mobile) acquisition has gone quite nicely so far (source: am on said team). That's just one recent example; there are quite a few MS products that came on board via acquisition.
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Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin by jurip on Thursday February 25, 2016 @01:27AM (#11172730)
The HockeyApp acquisition hasn't caused any pain so far.
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Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin by JupiterMoon on Thursday February 25, 2016 @02:35AM (#11172929)
Onenote
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Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin by scholia on Thursday February 25, 2016 @01:25PM (#11176497)
Not bought in, I think....

"OneNote started as an email exchange between myself and Steven Sinofsky, the Senior VP for Office, Nov 27, 2000."

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chris_pratley/archive/2004/01/30/one...

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