Justice Department Blocks Microsoft Purchase of Intuit (opens in new tab)

April 27, 1995 The US Justice Department sues Microsoft to block its acquisition of Intuit, Inc. In October of 1994 Microsoft and Intuit had agreed to a $1.5 billion stock swap where Microsoft would acquire the maker of the popular Quicken personal finance software. It would have been the largest software company merger in history… Justice Department Blocks Microsoft Purchase of Intuit is original content of This Day in Tech History.