Microsoft debuts Visio Viewer for iPad, updates look & feel of Cortana iOS app
Microsoft on Thursday brought another productivity app to iOS, its diagramming tool Visio, while promising an enhanced iPhone version of its voice assistant, Cortana.
Visio's first presence on iOS is actually in the guise of Visio Viewer, a browsing-only app for the iPad. For now editing is still reserved for Visio Pro on desktops.
Viewer can load files from email, OneDrive, or SharePoint, and share them as links or attachments. Using "Layer," people can see alternate visualizations of the same diagram, while text search enables finding items in shapes.
Visio Viewer is a free download, and runs on any iPad with iOS 9 or later. iPhone support is due in the next few months.
A Cortana update will rollout to iPhone owners over the next several weeks, and should feature a simplified design with "quick action" buttons that accomplish tasks like setting reminders or checking the weather. Likewise, answers to questions will appear in a cleaner fullscreen layout.
Microsoft is also promising to improve speed. The current iPhone version of Cortana is a free download, and requires iOS 8.
Visio's first presence on iOS is actually in the guise of Visio Viewer, a browsing-only app for the iPad. For now editing is still reserved for Visio Pro on desktops.
Viewer can load files from email, OneDrive, or SharePoint, and share them as links or attachments. Using "Layer," people can see alternate visualizations of the same diagram, while text search enables finding items in shapes.
Visio Viewer is a free download, and runs on any iPad with iOS 9 or later. iPhone support is due in the next few months.
A Cortana update will rollout to iPhone owners over the next several weeks, and should feature a simplified design with "quick action" buttons that accomplish tasks like setting reminders or checking the weather. Likewise, answers to questions will appear in a cleaner fullscreen layout.
Microsoft is also promising to improve speed. The current iPhone version of Cortana is a free download, and requires iOS 8.
Comments
This could be very useful for engineers to design an implementation and have technicians in the field execute that plan using their mobile device.
In Windows, I have full Visio. It would be useful to see my engineering/networking diagram on my iPad Pro, you know, for some professionals who do these things?
No, I do not want a damn PDF for complex diagrams.
I'd rather like to Edit my Visio diagrams on both my Mac and iPad as well.
I guess I continue to learn how to use Omnigraffle in the mean time.......
I love OmniGraffle for what I need in a diagramming tool. My only complaint with it is the price, which keeps me from getting the iOS version and from jumping on every new version when it come out. I do wonder if they are well served by their strategy, but they must like being a (presumably successful) niche software company.
Failed to open on 2, and crashed on the 3rd, both on my iPad 3rd generation running iOS 9.3.2, and my iPad Pro 9.7" running 10.1.1.
Needs more work...