> Home > Keynote > Manifesto > Lead Article > Site News > Bookstore > BMS Forum > Bumper Stickers > NT Files > Dirty Tricks > Feature Articles > Departments > Site Credits Department Contributors: Cedric Auzanne Stephane Bakhos Nina Capozzola Alex Curelea Dr RA Downes Dominic Dunlop John Faith Marco Fornier Tim Farley Alessandro Storti Gajani Earl Hood Scott Johnston J P Knight David Mackersie Michael Montgomery Tony Pallone Steven J. Palmer Eirik Rossen J. Thomas Sapienza Thomas Svenson Dean Swift Mark Symons Dale E Thompson Jonathan Young Ximenes Zalteca		The (Nearly) Whole Microsoft Catalog Some high technology companies may be burdened with the "not invented here" syndrome, but Microsoft is obviously not one of them. Less the toiler in the field, Microsoft may be more accurately pictured as playing the part of the plantation owner, reaping a harvest based on what others sow. This department documents Microsoft's amazing history of software and corporate purchases, joint ventures and equity investments. Each acquisition should properly be seen in two ways: first, as an effort on the part of the company to purchase that which it apparently could not invent on its own; and second, as subtracting one from the number of companies which will be permitted to follow its own course, to enrich our technological world, and dare we say it, to compete with Microsoft. Microsoft's huge number of joint ventures, and its investments in other large players in various industries, attests to the synergies created by the mega-corporations, whose natural inclinations are to partner with one another, and by so doing, to create virtually private domains of commerce, segments of the economy where smaller companies can almost never ante up the price of admission. This list should be regarded as a "work in progress," if not only for the constant flow of new additions with each passing week, but because a great many investments and purchases are no doubt missing, especially those taking place in the years before 1995. Accordingly, readers are invited to add their knowledge to the compliation of this list. Instructions for submitting information are provided below. View the Catalog sorted by company or year Instructions for submitting information to the Whole Microsoft Catalog: Include name of the company, a brief description of their business, the nature of Microsoft's investment in that company (e.g., purchase, equity investment, joint venture), and the year this investment took place. Please include a reference for verification of the submitted information. Email the above to the Whole Microsoft Catalog. If anyone who has asked to be credited as a contributor has been omitted, please forgive the lapse, and by all means request a correction! Published:		There are people who don't like capitalism, and there are people who don't like PCs, but there's no one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft. BILL GATES
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