[Sigia-l] Life after Visio

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"Anne Hjortshoj" wrote:

> I wish that Microsoft would (a) take the time to make Visio more usable, so
> that people wouldn't have to buy one or more books to figure out how to
> effectively use the tool

You're out of luck. :-)

"With the 2003 release, Microsoft is attempting to increase Visio's appeal
among enterprise business customers, as that's where the growth opportunity
is, says Dan Hay, group product manager. Currently, product usage is split
50/50 between technical engineers and designers, and business types, such as
sales and marketing professionals, human resources managers, business
analysts and the like, Hays says.

As it has been doing with its other information worker products as of late,
Microsoft is talking up the business benefits of Visio, rather than the
myriad new features the company is adding to the product. Microsoft says the
2003 release will provide for more connected solutions, greater
organizational insight, better asset optimization and improved worker
productivity. 

Translation: Microsoft is adding new hooks into Visio to make it a better
front-end, fat (as opposed to Web-based) client for back-end enterprise
applications from Microsoft and other software vendors."

<http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,4248,1096145,00.asp>


My Translation: Usability is not at the top of Microsoft's agenda.

Ziya
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