Visio requirements and Windows 7?

[infrequent Visio user]

Recently purchased a new Toshiba laptop running Windows 7. I do not have
Microsoft Office installed on this new computer (don't need it for what I
do). Had Visio 2000 on my old computer running Windows 2000. Visio 2000
does not want to install on the new machine. Do I have to have Office
installed on the new machine in order to re-install my old Visio 2000? I
only work with old floor plan files I created years ago so I do not need
newer versions of Visio. I am really confused (99 percent of my life exists
on a Mac (where I do have Office installed)(not interested in trying to run
Visio on my Mac) so any help would be really appreciated. Thank you in
advance.

 

[Michael]

Looking at the compatibility page for Windows 7, it does not look likely
that Visio 2000 is going to install on a computer running Windows 7.

 

[infrequent Visio user]

Thank you. If I need to move to a newer version of Visio (say 2003), will
that work on Windows 7? and do I need to have Office installed in order for
Visio to install? Thanks!

 

[AlEdlund]

Office doesn't need to be installed to install Visio. v2003 is no longer
available from M$, the current version is v2007. There have been a lot of
features moved around since v2000 so you might want to check this out.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio/FX101757911033.aspx

al