History

2008-2009: New challenges

2009 WinSoft released FileMaker Pro in 7 versions: Czech, Polish, Turkish, Middle East - English, Middle East - French, Central Europe - English and Asia - English versions.

WinSoft released a new Tasmeem font : Nastaliq, based on Persian writing tradition


2008 WinSoft released FileMaker Pro, Asia - English version.

WinSoft released Adobe Acrobat 9 and Creative Suite 4 for Greek, Middle Eastern and North African users

WinSoft released the new Tasmeem 4 with a complete high-quality font range

WinSoft launches an eStore to allow users to purchase all its products online all over the world and discover our latest products and promotions.


2006-2007: Reaching New Heights with FileMaker, Inc. & Tasmeem™

2007 WinSoft released the Turkish version of FileMaker Pro.

WinSoft continued to expand the Adobe product range in 19 languages

WinSoft continued to expand the FileMaker product range (FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Pro Advanced, FileMaker Server and FileMaker Server Advanced) with releases in 6 versions


2006 WinSoft released Tasmeem: the Spirit of Arabic Writing, the most comprehensive Arabic typesetting and design tool in the industry.

WinSoft entered a partnership agreement with FileMaker Inc., of Santa Clara, CA, a fully owned subsidiary of Apple Computer Inc.(AAPL), for the adaptation, localization, and commercialization of their database product line on the Eastern European and Middle Eastern markets.

WinSoft released Extended English, Czech and Polish versions of FileMaker Pro.


1993-2005: Big Business with Adobe Systems Incorporated

2005 WinSoft continued to develop and extend the product range with 11 language releases: Arabic, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian and Turkish.


2000 WinSoft extended its coverage to the Central and Eastern European markets (Adobe CE products).

Releases of PageMaker, Photoshop, Acrobat, InDesign, InCopy and Illustrator for this market.


1995 Adobe Systems Incorporated acquired Aldus Corp. Agreement between WinSoft and Adobe to extend the localization and distribution contract to Photoshop.

Successive releases of PageMaker, Photoshop, Acrobat and InDesign for the Middle Eastern market (Adobe ME products).


1994 WinSoft made the decision to address the Windows environment by releasing PageMaker Arabic and Hebrew versions for Windows.


1993 WinSoft formed an agreement with Aldus Corp to adapt PageMaker into Arabic and Hebrew.

1987-1991: Extending the Enterprise

1991 WinSoft created Language Kits in Central and Eastern European languages, Arabic, Cyrillic and Hebrew, in order to take advantage of the multilingual capacities of WinSoft's products in Western operating systems.


1990 WinSoft formed an agreement with Symbiotic to release light versions of WinText, WinFile, WinView and WinType in the French market.


1988 Release of WinFile (a multilingual file management software program).


1987 Creation of the first multilingual word-processing software WinText, followed by the release of WinView (a multilingual outliner/presentation software program) and WinMath (a scientific application for drawing and studying mathematical functions and curves).

 

1986: The First Big Break

1986 An agreement was formed between Apple Computer Middle East Africa and WinSoft: creation of an Arabic version of WinType, to be bundled with every Macintosh sold in the Middle East.


1985: Getting started



1985 WinSoft was founded by Pierre Blangero, Kamel Gaddas and François Peccoud.

WinSoft released WinType (a typing tutor software program for Macintosh)

 

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