Microsoft acquisitions 2012

The company is much into the limelight for two hot chunks of news, one being the retirement of CEO Steve Ballmar and second being the owner of Nokia from now onwards. It is interesting to see that despite of the bad times the company has recovered with; Steve has given a new blow to the company by his last hit this September.

If you pick the history of Microsoft, you will find it more like its strategy that it gets a hold of the business which apparently is dooming but its hidden potentials are inevitable.

The newly added brand will now be cashed by the company as it will now focus on a strongly integrated networking mechanism. For sure, this is the biggest move taken by Microsoft in the last decade. Interesting enough, the company lately announced the acquisition of Netbreeze to bring social analytics and monitoring to Microsoft Dynamics CRM customers which would help them drive sales, optimize campaigns and engender customer loyalty.

Microsoft, soon realizing that it needs to modify its expertise in social networking purchased Yammer to do the honors on its behalf. Yammer is a private social network that helps you and your company to stay connected and acquires better social popularity. Just now that it is Nokia which has made the world speechless; it was the acquisition of Skype back in This was one of the major moves taken by Microsoft and currently, Skype is contributing largely in making the company to earn smart.

Interestingly, this too is a product of Microsoft now. The last acquisition made by Microsoft was AOL in Others are listed below. All product names, logos, and brands are property of their respective owners. Microsoft has acquired organizations. Their most recent acquisition was Mover on January 22, Microsoft is a technology company that was founded in by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.

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