content: Microsoft goes around buying and selling news media. Merges and acquisitions by Microsoft: Stakes    Date % Stake Company USD Paid     June 30, 1997 11.5% Comcast $1,000,000,000   December 14, 1998 1.32% Qwest Communications $200,000,000   December 28, 1999 11.5% Globo Cabo $126,000,000   March 14, 2000 9% MEASAT Broadcast Network $100,000,000   July 7, 2000 22.98% Telewest Communications $2,263,000,000   February 14, 2002 15.4% USA Networks ????    Not sure why they aren't talking shit about one of their owners, tho!