1997 Founding of O&O Software GmbH
1998 O&O Defrag
released for the first time, February 10First accolade as Microsoft Partner, thereafter was
this accolade annually renewed
1999 O&O CleverCache
V1.0 released, February 22
2000 O&O BlueCon
appears, becoming the first data recovery program in the German language
with NT Blue Screen consoleRelease of the first network management for O&O Defrag

O&O Defrag
voted best third party developer tool on the NT Forum

2001 Signing of Master Agreement with the German Federal
Armed Forces and Federal Republic of GermanySigning of Master Agreement with NATO (Basic
Ordering Agreement) with clearance for the O&O products for all NATO
member states
2002 Founding of O&O Services GmbHO&O SafeErase
and O&O UnErase released
2003 Appointment to Microsoft Gold Certified
Partner/Independent Software Vendor
2004 Release of the first study “Data Data Everywhere”
with numerous TV appearances, e.g. stern TVO&O DiskRecovery
released for the public for the first time
2005 O&O Defrag
named Editor’s Choice for the first time in Germany’s Computer BILD
magazine, repeated in 2006Successful entry into the German Retail Business
2006 Founding exono GmbHRelease of O&O RescueBox
as the first O&O product based on Windows PE

With O&O DiskImage
1.0, O&O releases it’s first data imaging product

Buyout of majority holding acticom GmbH

Federal President Horst Köhler and wife visit O&O, 14. Dezember,
14

2007 Start of new Corporate Design and new company logo
in MaySigning of an OEM Partnership with CA

Appearance on stern TV on November 14 to discuss “Deleted
memory cards in digital cameras”

The O&O Partner Program reaches the 1000 partner
landmark for the first time (German speaking)

2008 O&O SafeErase
voted Editor’s Choice for the third time in a row by
Computer BILD
magazine
O&O releases the free data imaging software
O&O DiskImage Express for
Windows

Network management of O&O products now possible with
the release if the

O&O Enterprise Management Console 2

Release of the first version of partition managing
software
O&O PartitionManager

2009 O&O shares a Stand at CeBIT with their North
American partner LaplinkO&O Website translated into
Chinese

O&O together with Laplink enables the upgrade from
Windows XP to the new Windows 7 with the

Migration Kit for Windows 7

2010 O&O DiskImage 5
released with the new M.I.R. Technology for restoration of data and
system images onto different hardware

Laplink and O&O redefine Migration to Windows 7 with

operating system independent restoration

O&O releases the new license program

O&O EasyLicensing SMB
, where small and medium-sized businesses get
all O&O products at a fixed monthly rate