Microsoft demos new Visio features

InternetNews | at | by Mike

Microsoft this week is giving users and partners a sneak peak at the next version of its Visio business diagramming package.

The company is showing off the upcoming features, as well as four new add-ins, at its Microsoft Office Visio Conference 2008 this week to a conclave of 250 customers and partners gathered on the company's sprawling Redmond, Wash. campus.

It's no surprise that one of the key upcoming new features will be support for Office 2007's trademark "ribbon" ? context sensitive ? user interface, which has recently been renamed "fluent."