Visio has had many releases over the years and is now part the Microsoft Office suite. Microsoft Visio was first released in 1992 as a standalone product. The software was first created and released by the Shareware Corporation and was bought by Microsoft in the year 2000. Microsoft Visio is a diagramming software application that can be used to create and design diagrams, graphs and other graphics. Microsoft Visio is a vector graphics software application that comes bundled in with the Microsoft Office software suite, which also includes the word processor Microsoft Word, the presentation software Microsoft PowerPoint and the spreadsheet application Microsoft Excel.