- February: Silicon Beach Software is acquired by Aldus Corporation.
- February 19: Adobe Photoshop 1.0 is released by Adobe Systems.
- March 26: The acquisition of Emerald City Software by Adobe Systems is completed.
- April: MacroMind Director 2.0 is released.
- October: Adobe Illustrator 3 is released for Macintosh and NeXT by Adobe Systems.
- November: EA co-founder Tim Mott succeeds Marc Canter and John Scull as the chairman and president of MacroMind, respectively.
| Years |
|---|
| 1980 · 1981 · 1982 · 1983 · 1984 · 1985 · 1986 · 1987 · 1988 · 1989 1990 · 1991 · 1992 · 1993 · 1994 · 1995 · 1996 · 1997 · 1998 · 1999 2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009 2010 · 2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 2020 · 2021 · 2022 · 2023 · 2024 · 2025 · 2026 · 2027 · 2028 · 2029 |