Visio Standard 2010 (Includes Software Assurance) (English)

Microsoft Visio Standard helps professionals — project managers, HR personnel, and administrative staff — visualize, document, and share ideas with flowcharts, organization charts, office layouts, and more.

A varied selection of templates is available for general needs, including charts (organization charts, flowcharts, and marketing charts), project schedules (calendars, timelines, and Gantt charts), maps (directional and geographic), cause-and-effect diagrams, block diagrams, basic network diagrams, and basic office layouts. To assemble customized diagrams, users can drag task-specific shapes onto pages and have Visio automatically connect and align them. Themes (sets of colors and effects) can be added to a diagram with a single mouse click.

Diagram creators can track reviewers' comments and changes to shapes. Diagrams can contain inserted pictures and clip art and can be saved as web pages.

The 2010 version of Visio Standard adds the Fluent user interface, which simplifies navigation by replacing menus and toolbars with a set of task-based tabs known as the Ribbon. An enhanced Shapes window gives easier access to shapes and stencils, and a new status bar aids navigation within and between diagrams.

 Service Pack 1 includes new and previously released security, performance, and stability updates for Visio 2010.

This Standard version should meet the needs of most organizations. If an organization works with specialized engineering, IT applications, or other technical material — or if it wants to dynamically link data to diagrams and publish them online — review the additional functions offered in the Visio Professional 2010 package. There is also Visio Premium 2010, which includes all the features of Visio Professional 2010 in addition to organization process management features and the ability to publish to a process repository for centralized storage of process documents.

Important Volume Licensing Information: With Visio 2010, organizations can choose between two types of volume license keys for product activation: a Key Management Service (KMS) license key or a Multiple Activation Key (MAK). Organizations will be provided with both types of keys on the Microsoft Volume Licensing website.

Microsoft recommends KMS activation only for organizations with at least 50 networked computers requiring activation for Visio 2010 or requiring activation for a combination of Visio 2010, Office 2010, and Project 2010 software. Organizations with fewer than 50 computers requiring activation or organizations with non-networked computers should activate their products using a MAK. Microsoft offers instructions on how to use a MAK or KMS key to activate volume editions of Office 2010 software, which also applies to Visio 2010.

Acquiring the Installation Media and License Key: Installing this product requires installation media and a license key. Installation media will be shipped to you free of charge.

The license allows you to use the installation media to install the product on as many computers as you have received donations for. This quantity is specified in the donation email sent to your organization email address after your eligibility has been verified and your administrative fee has been received. A separate email will give you information about obtaining your license key.