Microsoft is in to Franchise?

Found the Small business for sale by a fluke, and got a little confused.

It’s a rather nice site, listing different franchise business opportunities (so the name is a bit misleading), you just enter an industry, how much you’re prepared to invest and where you want to set up shop, and they find a franchise that suits you.

But what caught my eye was…

Welcome to SmallBusinessSale.com, owned and operated by Microsoft Corporation.

a template leftover or something left behind from the design, and in my eyes not playing in favor of them, so I had to investigate.

The cool thing is that it’s true!

SBS is operated by Franchise Gator, which is owned by aQuantive, which is in turn a fully owned subsidiary of Microsoft!

Although they got the site(s) when they acquired aQuantive, if find it amusing that Microsoft is in to the franchise business…

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