PlaceWare

{{Short description|Web conferencing software}}

PlaceWare was a provider of web conferencing software, and was founded in 1996 by Xerox engineers Pavel Curtis, Mike Dixon, and David Nichols as a spin-off from Xerox PARC.{{cite web

| title = Falling into Place | url = http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/FALLING-INTO-PLACE-3129197.php#page- | work = San Francisco Chronicle | last = Trager | first = Louis | date = 1997-03-27 | access-date = 2013-02-09 }} Its first product, PlaceWare Auditorium, was rolled out in March 1997, and used by such companies as Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Sun Microsystems, and PBS.{{cite web|title=The next seat may be your own in cyberauditorium |url=http://www.pcweek.com/news/0324/24mplace.html |work=PC World |last=Dager |first=Renee |date=1997-03-27 |access-date=2013-02-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970330192309/http://www.pcweek.com/news/0324/24mplace.html |archive-date=March 30, 1997 }}

Placeware was acquired by Microsoft in 2003,{{cite web | title = PlaceWare, Inc. Announces Its Acquisition by Microsoft Is Complete | website = Microsoft | url = https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2003/apr03/04-30placewarefinalpr.aspx | access-date = 2013-02-09 }} and its core product renamed Microsoft Office Live Meeting.