Dated January 18, 2022
The company will pay for the entire transaction in cash according to its statement and at 95 per share – being a public company listed on Nasdaq.
- The acquisition is one of the largest in the sector ever, but it will help Microsoft strengthen its position in the gaming sector as a fierce competitor to Sony, and under the deal will provide more games to the service Game Pass The cloud is especially since many famous games will become owned by it.
- The company owns Activision Blizzard Studios to develop games in many countries around the world and has more than 10 thousand employees where, previously developed games a famous most notably Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Candy Crush, Overwatch, Diablo, and other games that are well known.
- The deal will also provide Microsoft with more games on smartphones to compete in a sector that has been growing steadily in recent years, as well as offering cloud gaming services and Xbox, and gaming across computers via Windows.
- The acquisition deal is expected to take place on Activision Blizzard In a period not later than June 2023, due to the need to complete its own legal and commercial transactions. Its chief executive, Bobby Kotek, will remain in office until the acquisition and after the transaction is completed.
Company history
- The company was founded and launched in 1975 in the month of April as a company specializing in the development and marketing of processors "basic", which formed or fame for Microsoft as it was of great quality and was revolutionary, later Microsoft issued in 1980 operating system for computers, which was the first of its kind, which was inspired by the system "Unix" but Microsoft which analysts found surprising.
- Microsoft's story did not end with operating systems and their development as the company "IBM" was in need of an advanced operating system to run its computers, which was about to launch, then the company "Seattle Computer Products" develops and owns an integrated operating system bearing the name QDOS، Here Microsoft acted as an intermediary between IBM and the operating system manufacturer, which was done, but Microsoft later purchased this system and renamed it to "MS-DOS" A version was developed for a company IBM Who carried the name PC-DOS.
- The wind came as the ships craved and the devices spread IBM And here Microsoft turned from a small company into one of the largest manufacturers and developers of software, later Microsoft Windows was launched for the first time, which was based on MS-DOS But with a more graphical interface, over time Microsoft has released its rich package on Microsoft Office profile which provides a set of software and tools for editing and creating text files and presentations.
Services and products
Buy Facebook a large number of products and services, in terms of services, we find the Bing search engine (Bing), which is an alternative to the search engine Google, but it is no more power of course, and Ping as an update to a search engine Microsoft the old and the famous MSN which Microsoft was offering a program for the messaging the same name, brings a ping greater support for languages other than English and a strong contender for a search engine to Yahoo, it has been launched officially, and also from within the Microsoft services find Service Outlook email and competition feel to the side of the cloud storage service OneDrive،
As for Microsoft's products, they are diverse:
On her head, we find a system running Microsoft Windows rich from the definition, which works most of the computers in the world, coupled with the package of Microsoft Office which is available on the programs, is essential and necessary it is Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and all of which specializes in editing certain files are text files, slide presentations on the installation, the Windows operating system, and package desktop is more of the company's products selling to all, and next to each of these products with the character of the software price of Microsoft's products have numerous physical, including the Surface devices office as well as the Xbox which is the biggest rival devices PlayStation Special running games.
Acquisitions
In addition to the acquisition made today, Microsoft is one of the most acquired companies for small and emerging companies, and one of its most important deals was the acquisition of the application "Skype" for video and text communication in 2011 for 8.5 billion dollars, as well as the acquisition of Nokia in 2014 for 7.2 billion US dollars, and because it is 2016 on the application "SwiftKey" which provides a Smart Keyboard for Android and iPhone devices at a price of 250 million dollars American, and in terms of software has acquired the GitHub platform (GitHub) For 7.5 billion, a service specializing in web software and hosting, Microsoft's biggest deal was its acquisition of the business social network "LinkedIn" In the amount of 26 billion US dollars.