accident reports for visio

[Jeff Prichard]

I am with the Graham Police Department. We have recently
purchased several new computer systems to use at he
Police Department. We were using Visio / accident
reporting to complete vehilce accident reports. Our new
systems come with Windows XP and the Visio that we have
is not compatible. Do we need to purchase a newer
version, can we upgrade? I believe we purchased the
original about 5 years ago and the vendor is no longer
available. Where can I purchase if needed and how much is
it going to cost? Thank you.

Captain JC Prichard
Garham Police Department

 

[al]

according to other users, you should be able to use Visio5
with XP, just be sure to install in compatibility mode.
There have been other posts regarding the visioX/XP
install.
al

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

One of the original developers, Rob Fahrni, has reported that he has
successfully run Visio 2.0 on Windows XP.

John... Visio MVP

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[John Marshall, MVP]

Windows XP was not around when the Visio 5 setup was created, so the error
is incorrect and can be ignored.

Something to Consider: Currently Visio 5 is the oldest version of Visio that
qualifies for an upgrade and when Visio 2003 is released later this year,
Visio 5 may no longer qualify for an upgrade. After that you will have to
pay the full price rather than the upgrade price. I am not sure what
Microsoft's policy is, but when Visio was a separate company, if you
upgraded just before the release of the next version, the upgrade to the
next version was free.

John... Visio MVP

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