Technical Version of Visio?

Microsoft is definitely advocating the "range of add-ons to suit different
needs" approach with Visio. However, Microsoft (more so than Visio
Corporation) sees these add-ons being provided by partners and 3rd parties.
We will make sure that Visio is a good platform for development, and we will
address the common issues that users must deal with across the board.

I am always willing to receive direct product feedback and suggestions for
features. Just remove "online" from my posting address for my real e-mail.
Please note that this is not a product support alias. If you are having
difficulties with Visio, your best bets are to post to the newsgroups or
contact Microsoft technical support.

--
Mark Nelson
Microsoft Corporation

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"David Parker" wrote in message
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Agreed. We do not need a technical version, we need the technical aspects
of Visio working properly first!
Mark - how do you want to receive comments?

"Pemo" wrote in message
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"Mark Nelson [MS]" wrote:

Actually, a few of us are still around. And we speak our minds, but
that
doesn't mean that Visio will become exclusively targeted at technical
users.
The technical market is a difficult customer base for Microsoft to
reach
(being geared for the mass market), and this holds true for Visio as a
Microsoft product now. The best way for us to address technical
audiences
is to identify the features and issues that technical users have in
common
with others. A few examples: drawing mechanics, performance,
reporting,
data connectivity, layers. Let me hear about the tech-specific things
you
want fixed or improved too, but it is admittedly a difficult sell
internally.

I'm relieved to hear there is a voice of reason still there.

Of course we don't expect technical only; Visio needs to have features
across a spectrum.

I wonder if MS have considered following the very sensible lead of
Mozilla
Firefox browser - where there is a range of add-ons to suit different
needs
rather than the bloated
one-size-tries-to-fit-all-but-hasn't-got-a-hope-of-a-snowball-in-hell
that
is the problem with Internet Explorer bloatware/sieveware.

Pemo

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"Mark Nelson [MS]" wrote :

Microsoft is definitely advocating the "range of add-ons to suit different
needs" approach with Visio. However, Microsoft (more so than Visio
Corporation) sees these add-ons being provided by partners and 3rd
parties.
We will make sure that Visio is a good platform for development, and we
will
address the common issues that users must deal with across the board.

I am always willing to receive direct product feedback and suggestions for
features. Just remove "online" from my posting address for my real
e-mail.
Please note that this is not a product support alias. If you are having
difficulties with Visio, your best bets are to post to the newsgroups or
contact Microsoft technical support.

Mark, you have succeeded in mollifying what was fast becoming an anti-M$
"Evil Empire" attitude in me.

Now if we can only get your sensible attitude to permeate the the areas of
Redmond that I have been known to refer to (perhaps unkindly) as "dungeons"
inhabited by "twisted, shambling horrors", when choosing an alternative to
more direct and certainly earthier epithets common among, but not confined
to, Australian crocodile wrestlers.

BTW congratulations on the USA Olympic medal haul. Of course, had you won
the same number as Australia on a per capita population basis, you would
have won 290 Gold medals........ ;-)

Pemo

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"Mark Nelson [MS]" wrote :

Microsoft is definitely advocating the "range of add-ons to suit different
needs" approach with Visio. However, Microsoft (more so than Visio
Corporation) sees these add-ons being provided by partners and 3rd
parties.
We will make sure that Visio is a good platform for development, and we
will
address the common issues that users must deal with across the board.

I am always willing to receive direct product feedback and suggestions for
features. Just remove "online" from my posting address for my real
e-mail.
Please note that this is not a product support alias. If you are having
difficulties with Visio, your best bets are to post to the newsgroups or
contact Microsoft technical support.

Mark, you have succeeded in mollifying what was fast becoming an anti-M$
"Evil Empire" attitude in me.

Now if we can only get your sensible attitude to permeate the the areas of
Redmond that I have been known to refer to (perhaps unkindly) as "dungeons"
inhabited by "twisted, shambling horrors", when choosing an alternative to
more direct and certainly earthier epithets common among, but not confined
to, Australian crocodile wrestlers.

BTW congratulations on the USA Olympic medal haul. Of course, had you won
the same number as Australia on a per capita population basis, you would
have won 290 Gold medals........ ;-)

Pemo

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/ Oz \ Melbourne
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