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danox said:

Microsoft, please complete the deal, please….

What a waste Microsoft just pissed $69 billion dollars down the drain, exceeding, Google, and HP in one shot, this waste of money means don’t expect any significant hardware development for Microsoft in the future.

The Microsoft boneyard gets bigger

* The big Acquisition losers of Microsoft Over the years…..

Web TV $425 million dollars.
Hotmail. $500 million dollars.
Vizio $1.4 billion dollars.
Titus communication $1 billion dollars.
Navison $1.4 billion dollars.
*aQuantive $6.4 billion dollars wrote off in 2012 i.e. (a completewrite off shortly after acquiring)
*Skype Technologies $8.5 billion dollars.
*Yammer $1.2 billion dollars.
*Nokia $7.2 billion dollars.
*LinkedIn $26.5 billion dollars
*Git hub $7.2 billion dollars.
*ZeniMax Media 8.1 billion dollars.
*Nuance Communications to $20 billion dollars.
****Activision $69 billion dollars (Biggest in Microsoft history)****

Note, most were software acquisitions, which upon completion, most of the value of the software company dissipates rapidly, similar to Twitter, as an example.

Most of Microsoft acquisitions were complete right offs in the end. You certainly did not see most of the so-call tech implemented into their finished software i.e., their desktop OS or their web services division software in any meaningful way that justified the inflated prices that they paid for these boondoggles.

In contrast, Apples largest merger in the last 25 years was only $3 billion dollars, Apples best acquisition cost $400 million but it came with the best CEO in the last 25 years, and three other acquisitions, PA Semi, Intrinsity, and Anobit critical to Apple’s, Arm SOC’s development, cost Apple a total of 1.1 billion dollars.