article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . july 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message the xara group ltd. xara logo type subsidiary founded 25 july 1981 1981 07 25 1 headquarters london united kingdom key people charles moir founder 2 owner magix website www.xara.com xara is a uk based software company founded in 1981 . it has developed software for a variety of computer platforms in chronological order the acorn atom bbc micro z88 atari st acorn archimedes microsoft windows and linux . it was originally called computer concepts ltd. ; the company name was changed in 1995 to xara ltd. and later to the xara group ltd. on 30 january 2007 xara was acquired by german company magix ag and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary . 3 contents 1 history 1.1 atart st and acorn archimedes development 1.2 xara networks 1.3 move to windows 1.4 sale to magix ag 2 location 3 list of products by platform 3.1 bbc micro 3.2 atari st 3.3 acorn archimedes risc os 3.4 windows 3.5 linux and mac os x 4 references 5 external links history edit the company was founded in 1981 by charles moir . it started by developing for various 8 bit systems such as the acorn atom and bbc micro . 2 atart st and acorn archimedes development edit in 1986 it released its first piece of software for the next generation of computers fast asm for the atari st. development was focused on software for the acorn archimedes when it was released in 1987 . artworks the predecessor to xara xtreme was released on the archimedes . 2 xara networks edit in 1995 a subsidiary company called xara networks ltd. was formed specializing in the provision of high bandwidth internet connectivity to companies and isps . xara networks was subsequently sold to the itg group in london most commonly known for the global internet brand and was subsequently renamed gx networks . 4 move to windows edit early in the 1990s xara began developing for microsoft windows 95 as acorn computers struggled for market share . artworks was rewritten from the ground up for the platform and in 1994 it was released as xara studio . this involved a team of 20 developers who worked for more than two years to produce a competitor to then market leading drawing software coreldraw . citation needed the canadian company corel brought the marketing rights to the software and re branded it as corelxara . corel marketed it as a web oriented companion to coreldraw but it was clearly designed as a stand alone alternative to the older software . citation needed the arrangement with corel ended after five years . 2 in 2000 xara released the software themselves as xara x which was superseded by xara x in 2004 and then xara xtreme in 2005 . in 2006 a enhanced version was released named xara xtreme pro . xara xtreme pro was renamed xara designer pro . citation needed xara designer pro development continued and xara 3d was released . these titles were the predecessors to xara photo & graphic designer and xara 3d maker . 2 sale to magix ag edit on 30 january 2007 xara was acquired by german company magix ag and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary . 3 the software house continued development of its range of products releasing xara web designer in 2009 and xara page & layout designer in 2013 . 2 location edit since 1984 the company has been headquartered in gaddesden place hemel hempstead an 18th century palladian style villa designed by the celebrated architect james wyatt built in 1768 and reputed to be his first building in the uk . list of products by platform edit bbc micro edit ac mizal ultraman wordwise a rom based word processor disc doctor utility software graphics rom graphics utilities spellmaster a rom based spell checker . believed to be the world s first check as you type spell checker inter word inter sheet inter chart inter base a suite of rom based productivity applications atari st edit fast asm 1986 68000 assembler fast basic a rom based bbc basic like semi compiled basic language acorn archimedes risc os edit artworks 1991 vector graphics drawing software . predecessor to xara photo & graphic designer . the first drawing program to offer real time vector anti aliasing . citation needed mw software continued development from 1996 onwards . 5 impression desktop publishing package and variants impression style impression publisher . equasor equation building tool audioworks audio editor wordworks english dictionary and thesaurus turbodrivers a range of printer drivers macfs utility to read and write apple mac discs compression general purpose compression utility similar to zip file format the company also developed a range of hardware for the acorn archimedes including colourcard graphics card the first to produce 24bpp video for the acorn citation needed scanlight a range of hand held and flatbed scanners and software laserdirect a range of laser printers . the company developed the world s first 600dpi that retailed under 1000 it purchased printer engines from canon inc and using its own drivers and laser modulation techniques hardware and software was able to increase the resolution to 600dpi . citation needed windows edit xara studio 1994 corelxara 1996 xara x 2000 xara x 2004 xara xtreme 2005 xara xtreme pro xara designer pro xara 3d xara web designer 2009 wysiwyg web design program . xara page & layout designer combines page layout word processor and image editing capabilities . xara 3d maker creates 3d text graphics and animations such as headings logos titles and buttons . xara photo & graphic designer 2010 xara page & layout designer 2013 linux and mac os x edit xara xtreme lx 2006 open source free software port of the software . since 2008 there has been no more development of xara xtreme for linux . 6 a fork is maintained on github . 7 references edit goodwins rupert 25 july 2006 . rupert goodwins diary ; tuesday 25 07 2006 . zdnet . retrieved 15 december 2011 . congratulations to xara on 25 years of business . a b c d e f xara group history xara.com accessed on january 15 2015 . a b german group buys xara . about xara group http www.mw software.com xara xtreme for linux https github.com neonking xaravg lib external links edit xara home page complete documentation of the xar file format retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title xara & oldid 733098394 categories companies established in 1981software companies of the united kingdomhidden categories articles needing additional references from july 2016all articles needing additional referencesuse dmy dates from april 2013all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from july 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured 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