Adam Bosworth initiated and headed up the Quattro project until moving to Microsoft later in 1990 to take over the project which eventually became Access.

The action eventually led to the filing of the United States v. Microsoft case, dealing with the question of whether Microsoft was introducing unfair practices into the market in an effort to eliminate competition from other companies such as Netscape.

While the original Karaoke Revolution was also eventually released for the Microsoft Xbox console in late 2004, the new online-enabled version included the ability to download additional song packs through the console's exclusive Xbox Live service.

Microsoft released Direct3D in 1995, which eventually became the main competitor of OpenGL.

As a result of this transaction, Microsoft was able to secure a contract to supply the DOS that would eventually run on IBM's PC line.

The MITS Altair just mentioned played an instrumental role in sparking significant hobbyist interest, which itself eventually led to the founding and success of many well-known personal computer hardware and software companies, such as Microsoft and Apple Computer.

Microsoft eventually changed the name of the then current Win32 API family into Windows API, and made it into a catch-all term for both past and future versions of the API.

When Microsoft eventually lost interest in OS / 2 as well, it based its further high-end strategy on Windows NT.

Blueprint, developed to support 1-2-3, supported a variety of data sources, including SQL / DS, DB2, FOCUS and a variety of similar mainframe systems, as well as dBase and the early Microsoft / Ashton-Tate efforts that would eventually develop into Microsoft SQL Server.

Carmageddon was originally released on the PC ( for DOS ) in 1997, but was eventually ported to Microsoft Windows ( 1997 ), Macintosh ( 1997 ), PlayStation ( 1999 ), Nintendo 64 ( 2000 ) and Game Boy Color ( 2001 ).

Windows NT and newer operating systems from Microsoft included a system notification service called Messenger service, which was intended for use within workgroups, but eventually became used maliciously to present pop-up advertisements to users.

In 2006, Microsoft announced that FrontPage would eventually be superseded by two products.

Much of the original Fahrenheit project was abandoned, and Microsoft and SGI eventually gave up on attempts to work together.

The Microsoft partnership for a version called SQL Server dBASE also came to nothing, as dBASE never worked well in this environment, and Microsoft eventually released Access in this role instead.

Microsoft introduced Access in late 1992, and eventually took over almost all of the Windows database market.

When Borland eventually sold its Quattro Pro and Paradox products to Novell, where they would be joined with Word Perfect in an attempt to match Microsoft Office, Borland was left with InterBase, which Esber had purchased in the late 1980s and had its origins as a derivative of the RDB database work at DEC. Borland's ongoing strategy was to refocus its development tools on the corporate market with client – server applications, so Interbase fitted in as a low-end tool and a good generic SQL database for prototyping.

Framework eventually got locked into an industry battle, primarily with Lotus Symphony, and later with Microsoft Works.

FullWrite was later sold off by Borland in 1994 to Akimbo Systems, but by that time Microsoft Word had taken over the entire market and they too eventually gave up on it.

The OpenGL ++ effort would drag on and eventually be killed, and SGI then tried again with Microsoft with the similar Fahrenheit project, which also died.

The new game was eventually revealed to be Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, which was announced on June 1, 2009 at E3, during the Microsoft Press Conference.

DOS itself did not directly support protected mode, but Microsoft eventually developed DPMI and several DOS extenders were published based on it.

This relatively widespread use of VBScript is not because of many special merits of VBScript-several useful features of the full Visual Basic, such as strong typing, extended error trapping and the ability to pass a variable number of parameters to a subroutine have been removed-but mainly because, apart from being easy to learn, royalties need not be paid to Microsoft by implementers as long as the VBScript trade mark is acknowledged.

Employees were laid off without pay, and the company's game brands and other intellectual properties were sold to rivals like Microsoft, Namco, Crave and Ubisoft, and also to founder Trip Hawkins, who paid $ 405, 000 for rights to some old brands and the company's " Internet patent portfolio ".

An online version of the latest edition can be accessed through the paid Westlaw legal information service and as of late 2006, West Academic has published Black's Law Dictionary Digital, 8th edition ( ISBN 9780314176103 ) which has toolbars that integrate with Microsoft Word, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.

After a later auditing dispute, Microsoft paid Spyglass $ 8 million.

It was reported that the settlement came to $ 8 million and was paid by, among other companies, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems.

Given that the trademarked " Windows " name was in some jeopardy, Microsoft paid to settle the lawsuit they initiated with a $ 20 million payment to Lindows and certain licenses with Lindows agreeing to change their name worldwide to Linspire.

As a condition of the settlement Microsoft paid Caldera $ 150 million ($ in present-day terms ) and Caldera destroyed all documents it had produced in connection with the case.

After major cost reductions in early 2001, the company chose to focus on its relationship with Microsoft, and in particular, the development of a paid listings business.

On September 24, 2002, Microsoft paid a total of $ 375 million to own 100 % of the company.

The first excerpts from the book were published by on November 19th The Sunday Times in the United Kingdom ( only a few months after Microsoft, in a Windows 95 promotion, " paid for an entire daily press run of The Times and gave it away to readers ") and in the November 27th, edition of Newsweek.

* 1994 – Microsoft paid $ 16. 4 million for a 15 percent share of the company

The deal paid off in May 2011 when Microsoft bought Skype for $ 8. 5 billion.

Despite this trend, in releasing the Xbox 360 before its competitors ’ products were released, Microsoft hoped to benefit greatly from the first-mover advantage – and its gamble paid off, shipping around 6 million units before the others launched.

After two and a half years of court battles, Microsoft paid US $ 20 million for the Lindows trademark, and Lindows Inc. became Linspire Inc.

As part of this licensing settlement, Microsoft paid an estimated $ 20 million US, and Lindows transferred the Lindows trademark to Microsoft and changed their name to Linspire.

The paid versions of the product are under threat from more functional and lower cost, even free, competition such as Microsoft Security Essentials.

Microsoft subsequently bundled Internet Explorer with Windows, and thus ( making no direct revenues on IE ) paid only the minimum quarterly fee.

The same year, Billings Computer Corporation paid the New Mexico start-up company, Microsoft, $ 330, 000 to acquire usage rights for EBasic and to fund the development of Fortran and Cobol compilers.

Microsoft paid SCP $ 925, 000 and reclaimed the critical license for DOS.

Its second season premiered on Microsoft's three major video channels Xbox Live, MSN Video and The Zune Marketplace after Microsoft made a deal with The Guild, allowing Day, her cast, and her crew to be paid for their work.

He paid $ 7 million to Microsoft in 2006 in a settlement arising out of a lawsuit alleging illegal spam activities .< ref >

SEM includes both paid search results ( Using tools like Google Adwords or Microsoft adCenter ) and organic search results ( SEO ).

Additionally Microsoft provided Rowe with a subscription to the Microsoft Developer Network, an all expenses paid trip for him and his family to the Microsoft Research Tech Fest at their headquarters in Redmond, Washington, training for Microsoft certification and an Xbox with a selection of games.