Adobe Systems Announces Graphics Software For Microsoft Windows 95
Operating System

Flagship Adobe Products Among the First Graphics Applications Available for
New Platform

Mountain View, Calif. (August 21, 1995) (Nasdaq: ADBE) -- Adobe Systems
Incorporated today announced aggressive plans to deliver some of the first
graphics applications to take advantage of the improved functionality of
Microsoft Corporation's new operating system. The company intends to
deliver Microsoft certified Windows 95 "logo compliant" versions of Adobe
PageMaker, the world's leading page composition software, and Adobe
Photoshop, the industry standard photo design and production software,
within 90 days of Microsoft's shipment of Windows 95. Logo compliant
versions of Adobe's other leading Windows-based graphics applications,
which are expected to ship in 1996, will be 32-bit applications that
incorporate Microsoft's design criteria to enhance efficiency and ease of
use.

Adobe will showcase a number of its award-winning products -- including
Adobe PageMaker and Adobe Photoshop -- running on Windows 95 in the
business pavilion and midway section at the Microsoft Launch 95 event in
Redmond, Wash., on August 24, 1995.

"We have worked closely with Microsoft to ensure that our development
efforts on Windows 95 result in products that take full advantage of the
significant improvements made to the operating system," said Chuck
Geschke, president of Adobe Systems. "Through performance optimization and
key system-level feature enhancements we anticipate that our Windows-based
customers will achieve new levels of innovation in graphic design and
electronic publishing."

"Customers will be impressed by Adobe's commitment to deliver its complete
product line written as Window 95 applications," said Brad Chase, general
manager of the personal systems division at Microsoft. "Adobe takes
extensive advantage of the enhanced user interface and 32-bit features in
Windows 95, offering today's users more powerful solutions."

Most of Adobe's current Windows-based products are compatible with Windows
95 (see chart below). Windows 95 logo compliant versions of Adobe
PageMaker and Adobe Photoshop, which are expected to ship in the fourth
quarter of 1995, will not only take advantage of system-level features,
such as 32- bit addressing and the new user interface shell, but also
provide additional functionality such as support for OLE 2.0. Adobe
Photoshop currently supports Windows NT 3.5 as a 32-bit application, and
Adobe PageMaker and Adobe Premiere, the award-winning digital video and
audio editing software, currently run under Windows NT 3.5 as 16-bit
applications.

Adobe's Timeline for Windows 95 Applications

                              Compatible with        New Logo
                                Windows 95       Compliant Version

Adobe Photoshop 3.0                 Yes               Q4 '95
Adobe PageMaker 5.0                 Yes               N/A
Adobe PageMaker 6.0                 Yes               Q4 '95
Adobe Type Manager 3.01 and 3.02    Yes               Q1 '96
Adobe Illustrator  4.0.3            No (1)            1996
Adobe Premiere 4.0a                 Yes               1996 (2)
Adobe Acrobat  2.0 and 2.1          Yes               1996
Adobe Persuasion  3.0.2             Yes               1996
Adobe Streamline  3.0               Yes               1996

(1) Compatible version expected to be available within 90 days of Windows
95 ship date

(2) A 32-bit version for Windows 95 and Windows NT is expected to be
available in Q4 1995 and a logo compliant version in 1996

Adobe Systems, founded in 1982, is headquartered in Mountain, View,
California. Adobe develops, markets and supports computer software
products and technologies that enable users to create, display, print and
communicate electronic documents. The company licenses its technology to
major computer, printing and publishing suppliers, and markets a line of
applications software and type products for authoring visually rich
documents. Additionally, the company markets a line of power-ful, but easy
to use products for home and small business users. Adobe has subsidiaries
in Europe and the Pacific Rim serving a worldwide network of dealers an
distributors. Adobe's 1994 revenue was approximately $598 million.
 
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