Retention, Employment, Compensation and Severance Baseline - Microsoft Corp. and Visio Corp.

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          Retention, Employment, Compensation and Severance Baseline
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Retention

Senior Vice Presidents who do not receive an offer or who reject a MS offer will
receive a retention bonus ('Retention Bonus').  Senior Vice Presidents who
accept employment with Microsoft will receive a signing bonus ('Signing Bonus').




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                                                   % Bonus of Compensation*
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  Description       Reject
   of Jobs in      Microsoft                                 Accept Microsoft Employment
     Grade          Offer -
                     or - 
                   No Offer
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               Retention Bonus**     Signing Bonus     Signing Bonus     Signing of Bonus     Signing Bonus     Total Signing
                                     paid at 6 mo's    at 12 mo's        paid at 18 mo's      paid at 24 mo's   Bonus Paid if
                                     of employment     of employment     of employment        of employment     employed 2 yrs.
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Senior                40%                 60%              20%                 20%                 20%               120%
VP's***
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*    'Compensation' means the base salary in effect immediately prior to the
     Closing.

**   Such payment shall be payable six months after the Closing, or on such
     earlier date as may be determined by the Transition Committee (as defined
     in Section 4.8 of the Merger Agreement) (the 'Transition Completion Date'),
     unless such employee voluntarily terminates his or her employment with
     Microsoft prior to such time.

***  Senior Vice Presidents include Steve M. Gordon, Evelyn Cruz Sroufe,
     M. Thomas Hull and Jim Horsburgh.

 
                          Employment and Compensation

             Microsoft Employment and Compensation Baseline Terms


     For Senior Vice Presidents who receive offers, Microsoft will offer no
     less than:

               .  Salary:  Equivalent or higher
               .  Stock Options:  Microsoft option equivalent of 100% of base
                  salary (based on investment value)
               .  Microsoft Grant on August 1, 2001 based on employee
                  performance.


                                   Severance

     Special Transition Package for Senior Vice Presidents:

          As consideration to assist in the successful transition of the Company
Business to Microsoft, on the relevant Transition Completion Date, but in no
event later than six months from the Closing (or upon an involuntary termination
without cause, if earlier), each such Senior Vice President will be paid:

               .  Transition Bonus:  1 times the Retention Bonus
               .  Severance: Microsoft Standard Severance as outlined below,
                  provided, however, if Microsoft Standard Severance is less
                  than six months' base pay then Microsoft will make a
                  supplemental payment for the difference.

     General Severance (applicable to Visio's United States Employees):

               .  Microsoft recognizes all prior service credited by Visio for
                  purposes of severance calculations
               .  No Senior Vice President is terminated by Microsoft at or
                  within six weeks following Closing
               .  Microsoft standard relocations packages provided to Senior
                  Vice Presidents who relocate from a Visio location to a
                  Microsoft location, including relocations from Seattle to
                  Redmond.
               .  Microsoft Standard Severance triggered by:
               .  Reduction in base salary; or
               .  no comparable job offer by Microsoft (in terms of duties and
                  responsibilities), as determined in good faith by the
                  Transition Committee; or
               .  change in geographic location that exceeds 35 miles
               
          .  Microsoft Standard Severance includes:

 
               .  At Senior Vice President's option, six week job search, or in
                  lieu thereof six weeks' lump sum payment based on base salary
                  (all) ('base payment'), and
               .  Two weeks' base salary for every six months, capped at 26
                  weeks (not including the six weeks' base payment)
               .  Six months' accelerated option vesting on Microsoft options
                  received
               .  Outplacement assistance
               .  Microsoft Standard Severance only applies to US based
                  employees; severance for non-US based employees is determined
                  on a country-by-country basis per Microsoft standard policies
                  in that country or statutory requirement, whichever is
                  greater.