Microsoft's first acquisition was Forethought on June 29, 1987.

Forethought was founded in 1983 and developed a presentation program that would later be known as Microsoft PowerPoint On December 31, 1997, Microsoft acquired Hotmail for $500 million, its largest acquisition at the time, and integrated Hotmail into its MSN group of services. Hotmail, a free webmail service founded in 1996 by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia,had more than 8.5 million subscribers earlier that month.[ Microsoft acquired Seattle-based Visio Corporation on January 7, 2000 for $1.375 billion. Visio, a software company, was founded in 1990 as Axon Corporation, and had its initial public offering in November 1995.[7] The company developed the diagramming application software, Visio, which was integrated into Microsoft's product line as Microsoft Visio after its acquisition. Ms has acquired more than 100 company in its life time belong into various country like usa ,uk, japan Canada.

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