Companies Acquired by Microsoft Quiz

Answer: Microsoft Softgrid

Microsoft Softgrid is an application virtualization technology.and was first made available through The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, which was only available to enterprise customers. Microsoft Soft and Microsoft Softricity do not exist. Microsoft Virtual PC is an operating system virtualization product.

Answer: Windows Defender

Windows Defender is an anti-spyware product.
Neither Windows Attacker nor Office Attacker exist.
Windows Firewall is a network threat blocking technology that is part of Windows versions after Windows XP Service Pack 2

Answer: Microsoft Live Meeting

Microsoft LiveMeeting is an online collaboration tool or web conferencing service/application.
Microsoft NetMeeting is similar technology, but was developed internally at Microsoft and no longer used. It shipped with Windows from Windows 95 to Windows XP.
Microsoft Communicator is an enterprise IM and collaboration client.
Microsoft Messenger is a home-user IM client.

Answer: Microsoft Dynamics AX

Microsoft AX is an Enterprise Resource Planning business management solution for large businesses.
Microsoft ERP does not exist as a product name.
Microsoft Dynamics GP is a Enterprise Resource Planning business management solution for mid-size businesses based on technology acquired from Great Plains.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM is an internally developed Customer Relationship Management Product.
Microsoft also released a product called Microsoft Dynamics Nav with technology acquired from Navision.

Answer: Microsoft Content Management Server

The NCompass Labs Inc. Resolution product was re-branded as Microsoft Content Management Server. There was a 2001 and a 2002 release before the technology was blended into Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2007.
Microsoft SiteServer was an e-commerce product/solution that has evolved into Microsoft Commerce Server
Microsoft BizTalk is an integration server solution.
Microsoft Application Center was an application management tool. The brand was discontinued and the technology used in assorted Microsoft Management products.

Answer: Microsoft NetShow

Microsoft Netshow was the streaming media product based on Vextreme's Theatre product. Microsoft Netshow evolved into Microsoft Media Server.
Microsoft Liveshow does not exist.
Microsoft Roundtable is a table-top video-conferencing camera with multiple views.
Microsoft Theatre does not exist.

Answer: Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word is a word-processor
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program
Microsoft FortuneTeller does not exist.

Many would argue that it is ironic that the name "Forethought" was once used for the PowerPoint application, since PowerPoint can be over-used in the business environment resulting in extremely bored audiences.

Answer: Microsoft ForeFront

Microsoft ForeFront is the branding for a line of Microsoft security products. The Sybari name was Antigen.
Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server is a full-featured firewall and proxy server. It evolved from Microsoft Proxy.
Microsoft Voice Command is a program for Windows Mobile devices and phones to allow voice control of functionality.

Answer: Microsoft FoxPro

Microsoft FoxPro was a datacentric programming language. Microsoft tried for many years to 'kill' FoxPro but strong support from a dedicated user-base meant Microsoft kept releasing new versions. The last version, 9.0 was released in 2005 and is supported through 2015.
Microsoft Access is a desktop database program.
Microsoft SQL Server is an enterprise-class relational database management system.
Microsoft Bob is widely recognized as one of the worst products ever released by Microsoft. It was intended to be a nontechnical interface to Windows back in 1995.

Answer: Microsoft FrontPage

Microsoft Frontpage was a WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) web editor. There were many versions released between 1997 and 2003. Frontpage was also released for the Mac. Server components were released for many different webservers, including Netscape, Apache and O'Reilly on both Windows and Unix platforms.
Microsoft Frontpage was replaced by the Sharepoint Designer and the Microsoft Expression Web product.
Microsoft Digital Image Suite was an image cataloging and editing program.
Microsoft WebEditor does not exist.
Microsoft Access is a desktop database program.