The $8.5 billion purchase of Skype announced Tuesday would be Microsoft's largest acquisition. It made a $44.6 billion offer to buy Yahoo in 2008, but talks fell apart and the two companies ended up doing a search partnership.
aQuantive: $6 billion in 2007
Telewest Communications: $2.9 billion in 1999. A spinoff acquired from Comcast MO group.
Visio: $1.3 billion, 1999
Fast Search & Transfer: $1.2 billion, 2008
Navision: $1.2 billion, 2002
Great Plains Software: $1.2 billion, 2000
Source: Seattle Times and Bloomberg
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