Microsoft Visio Viewer 2019

[Abigail Tyrie]

Iunderstand that Microsoft would want to encourage and guide people towards their paid offerings but to simply not provide a link, to download the product that this page is supposed to be about, beggars belief. Is this arrogance, negligence or incompetence?

There is no real publicly accessible vision viewer for Windows 11. I recommend to stop using Visio if you can. Microsoft doesn't look like they are spending much time and money into the product anymore so it's only going to get worse.Visio viewer uses IE which with Win 11 doesn't really exist anymore.

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Thanks for the reply @Emi Zhang-MSFT , I did eventually find that link myself but only after being misdirected to other Microsoft download sites for previous versions of Visio Viewer. Also, the Microsoft Download center link you provided was about as useful as a teapot made of ice.

All we need is for Microsoft to take some feedback, then learn, grow, develop, and improve from it, rather than what seems to be the norm and deciding the miscalculated RoI is not worthwhile in fixing the problem and then ignoring it.

*Imagine the deep joy to be found in spending way more time than we should have to, just finding the right version of the Viewer to download and install, only to have it mess up your other Office applications and you have to then waste more hours troubleshooting and fixing the latest Microsoft cluster-fsck!!

If I go to the feedback site and use "Visio" as the search term I am shown a bunch of posts that are clearly about Visio and all state "Posted in Visio". However, after sorting by "Newest" the most recent post in this listing is from a month ago. However, if I then click on the blue, underlined "Visio" in "Posted in Visio" and also sort by Newest, the most recent post is from one day ago and I can see my post from six days ago.

In the past, I've seen problems when exuberant administrators lock things

down tightly with IEAK (Internet Explorer Administrators Kit) tools.Barb Way

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Right click on the file and go to properties on the general tab near the bottom where it says Security it will say something about the files was made on another PC and may be blocked. Click Unblock, apply, OK then double click it.If the file was not made on another PC then then section will not be there.

They are using IE 7. I am working with Visio 2003 drawings.

They are using IE 7. I am working with Visio 2003 drawings. I had them

install the Visio 2007 Viewer because it said it was compatible with

previous versions, and I plan to upgrade to 2007 in the near future.

This is reminiscent of a problem reported by Amedee Van GasseWhat OS and SP

This is reminiscent of a problem reported by Amedee Van Gasse

What OS and SP are your users on?

So, it doesn't work on PCs that have no Visio installed?

The operating system is WinXP Professional SP-2 (Media Center Edition).

The operating system is WinXP Professional SP-2 (Media Center Edition). When

the user clicks on the file he sees a white screen and the word "Done" in

the status bar. I just tried installing it on an older machine with IE 7 and

WINXP Home on it, and it worked.

Right click on the file and go to properties on the general tab near the bottom where it says Security it will say something about the files was made on another PC and may be blocked. Click Unblock, apply, OK then double click it.

You are right.I was unable to open .vsd file (visio) in IE. I installed/uninstalled vviewer from ms site but no use.

After reading your comment. I uninstalled this security update) number : KB973525 ( control pannel ( check "show updates " check box at top)Ant i can see .vsd file now....Wow!!Couldn't have dreamed of this solution.These MS guys are getting over smart to hurt themselves and all others.Ren? Klomp wrote:The fix for me

03-Mar-10

I have been working on making a documentation page for some network. We needed some inline Visio diagram display so that regular end user could be able to see the diagram without generating (non up to date image export).

I've installed the PlugIn on my Wiki. But if I have an vsd file - where I have to put it? (in german:Ich habe das PlugIn installiert in meinem Wiki. Doch muss mich ich die *.vsd Datei speichern, damit sie an gezeigt wird?)

Hello, I've tried it with one Visio 2007 (*.VSD) and I got the message, that i have not the proper version of VisoViewer installed (but I have visioviewer.exe from MS-downloads).It looks like that because of the putting the extension to lower-case it assumes/expects now a Visio-File only up to Version 2003.Maybe the conversion of Upper to lowercase has to be overwritten for this file-type.And yes it doesn't work with Firefox (I assume also not with Safari)

I just downloaded Visio 2007 viewer and this plugin. I think we should replace CLSID:279D6C9A-652E-4833-BEFC-312CA8887857 with new CLASID ? But in this moment my main problem is how to upload visio file (extension vsd is not allowed ?!?!). - Fox

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