Micro Application

Micro Application is a French Publisher created in 1981 by Philippe Olivier, who was at the time programmer at Commodore.

Micro Application chose to be interested in data processing general public as of its first quiverings and accompanied progress and success by them. During its first two decades of existence, Micro Application was associated with the German editor Data Becker (Düsseldorf) of which it translated the office automation softwares (Textomat, Datamat, Calcomat) or development (GFA BASIC) and the data-processing handbooks, devoted at the many data-processing platforms of the time: Commodore, Atari, Amstrad, IBM.

Little by little, Micro Application turns to the largest audience and becomes the most important French editor of the sector “practical life”, diffusing of CDroms teaching (Highway code, languages), practices (road atlases, interior installation) or turned towards the leisures (digital video, digital photograph). Benefitting from its good reputation near the general public and its excellent diffusion in the sales outlets such as the hypermarkets, Micro Application added to its catalog of the products such as the video games, the toners and the cables data-processing. This company employs more than one hundred of people (2006), is the most important software distributer in volume of sales and the more important third in terms of Turnover.

Head office

In 1985: with 13, rue Sainte-Cécile - 75009. Paris
In 1990: with 58, rue du Faubourg Poissonnière - 750010 Paris
Of 1995 to our days: with 20-22, rue des Petits-Hôtels - 75010 Paris

External bond

the site of the editor

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