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And Minecraft recently passed a notable milestone - 100 million copies sold across all platforms. It’s probably too early to say how this one will pan out, but Microsoft recently introduced a Minecraft education edition for schools, with plans in place to charge $5 per user per year.

Microsoft snapped up Minecraft maker Mojang for $2.5 billion in 2014. Microsoft took a $6.2 billion writedown on the acquisition five years later. Online advertising company Aquantive was the subject of a $6.3 billion purchase by Microsoft in 2007.Īt the time, there was seemingly a big land-grab for the new emerging ad-tech companies, but things didn’t work out too well in this case. Microsoft recently laid off more former Nokia staff and sold its feature-phone business for $350 million. The deal did not work out well, with a failure to shoehorn Windows Phone into the public’s consciousness leading to Microsoft announcing a major restructuring plan for its mobile business that effectively meant it was writing off the money it paid to acquire the business.

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This wasn’t a full company acquisition, but Microsoft snapped up Nokia’s mobile phone unit for $7.2 billion in 2013. Skype is still going strong, but it has many more competitors these days in the form of messaging apps with voice-calling features built in.

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