• Apple launches the first desktop version of OS X, its Unix-based operating system which gets the code name Cheetah. A server server had already been available since 1999. Future versions of OS X also are named after big cats: Puma (10.1, 2001) - Jaguar (10.2, 2002) - Panther (10.3, 2003) - Tiger (10.4, 2003) - Leopard (10.5, 2007).

• Microsoft introduces Windows XP.

• The ICC consortium releases version 4 of the ICC color profile format.

• Time Magazine processes the first ad which is supplied as a PDF/X-1a:2001 file. This new file format is a version of PDF 1.3 which is optimised for exchanging pages in a prepress environment.

• Agfa buys Autologic, the US manufacturer of prepress systems for the newspaper market.

 

<2000 - 2002>