So it was sort of a building block or Tinker Toy approach to creating drawings. They used building blocks, or shapes and people would assemble drawings rather than create them from scratch, because most people can't draw. They anticipated that technical drawing would be essential as the third leg of a stool otherwise resting on words and numbers.īefore the first product was launched the name was changed to Shapeware because the company had come up with an innovative way of drawing on the computer. Jeremy and Ted believed the just-released Windows 3 would be widely adopted as a corporate standard. The Seattle-based company’s co-founders include Jeremy Jaech and Dave Walter, two of the founders of Aldus Corporation and Ted Johnson, the lead developer of Aldus PageMaker for Windows. A three-way relationship was formed between Apple, Adobe which was the developer of the software that ran the Apple LaserWriter printer and Aldus who developed PageMaker to create this desktop publishing market.Īxon Corporation was founded to develop and market mainstream business graphics software products for personal computers.
Paul Brainerd, Jeremy Jaech and three other engineers grouped together and formed Aldus to target the page layout market for smaller newspapers.
Visio FilesThere is an Excel spreadsheet that summarizes the various files that are included with Visio. It also includes the date the product was released, the name and size of the main executable and DLL. This table indicates the version numbers that were assigned to each product. Additional information is always welcome.
#MICROSOFT VISIO VERSIONS UPDATE#
So this page will evolve over time as I update the information. This is a work in progress and I have yet to enter all the information.