What happened to Frontpage?

Published 10 April 06 12:18 PM | devi 

After nearly a decade of innovations, FrontPage will be discontinued in late 2006. But we won’t stop supporting the product. Nor are we ignoring the needs of our existing FrontPage customers. Four new products will meet their diverse needs as well as those of professional web designers and developers.

  1. Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Designer 2007
  2. Microsoft® Expression™ Web Designer
  3. Microsoft® Visual Studio 2005
  4. Microsoft® Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition

Which tool is right for you?

·       Use Office SharePoint® Designer 2007 if you are a solution creator using SharePoint technologies.

·       Use Expression™ Web Designer if you are a professional Web Designer building standards based, broad reach CSS/XHTML Web sites.

·       Use Visual Studio 2005 if you are a Web developer who wants to build high performance, robust, and enterprise ready Web applications with ASP.NET 2.0.

·       Hobbyists and enthusiasts can also get Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition which is a new, easy to use, and easy to learn development for building Web sites.

Comments

# It's my life... And I live it... said on April 10, 2006 4:00 PM:


It was sort of a weird animal anyway, but it was a nice beginner UI. But discontinuing
FrontPage...
# chradil said on July 31, 2006 7:03 PM:
As I was involved with the initial rollout of MS FP many years ago, including both the IIS and Unix server extensions, I was a bit dissapointed to here that the platform has been discontinued. Unfortunately there is an enormous existing user base (especially in the UNIX hosting community) who have relied on MS FP to ease development of many fantastic sites. Fortunately the new suit of products will provide a similar (and better in many ways) environment for users of Windows server environments. This will also however leave tens of thousands of UNIX hosted customers without the same capability (at least in the short term).

Likely the best alternative for the UNIX based users will be among the many web based CMS and publishing systems available today.
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