Microsoft, whose gaming efforts are spearheaded by the Xbox line of consoles, is believed to be keen to purchase a company with a large base of active users, and Discord would certainly fit that bill, having hit 140 million monthly active users in December.
However, any deal with Discord is not believed to be imminent. The Redmond-based company has also been heavily linked with TikTok and Pinterest in the past year.Microsoft has acquired more than 200 companies over its 46-year history. Software firm Forethought was the company's first purchase, amounting to $14 million in 1987 and laying down the foundations for Microsoft PowerPoint.
Its first billion dollar acquisition came at the turn of the millennium, when Visio Corporation was bought for $1.4 billion, and 10 more have since followed, LinkedIn being the biggest of these. Microsoft spent $26.2 billion on the professional networking site in 2016, its biggest acquisition to date, vastly eclipsing the $8.5 billion it paid forThe list below shows Microsoft's entire history of acquisitions, in reverse chronological order.
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