Microsoft/MSN/Live21 Feb 2006
Microsoft : No More FrontPage
Looks like with increasing number of low cost WYSIWYG editors, FrontPage is not much of use. Microsoft acquired FrontPage in the mid-1990s.
FrontPage does serve as the foundation for two different Web-design programs: SharePoint Designer 2007, which is intended for organizations using the SharePoint server-based Web-development platform; and Expression Web Designer, which appears to be outside of the Office application family (it isn’t included in any of the Office 2007 bundles, nor is it listed as a standalone Office app the way Project and Visio have been and will continue to be in the new release).
[Via PCworld]
February 23rd, 2006 at 10:23 am
It would be extinct anyway. ..
February 26th, 2006 at 5:15 am
FrontPage has evolved. It has gone from the simple WYSIWYG editor to a full fledged Dreamweaver killer. See the further demise of Dreamweaver as people know it in the next few years since Adobe bought Macromedia. GoLive is a much better app anyway. Macromedia had cornered the market and people were afraid to change.
FrontPage 2003 showed how much MS had changed their plans for it, and this is a natural evolution to the next stage of it. It now has the jump on Macromedia/Adobe, as they have been at a standstill for too many years and haven’t advanced the product at all.
Remember Netscape? They had the market, got sloppy and MS took over… it’s happening again.
February 26th, 2006 at 9:26 am
Probably yes, I never had chance to try Frontpage 2003 but the only wxperience was with Frontpage with Office XP and I hated it the most ’cause it puts it’s own code sometimes, I know WYSISYG editors has to that but some codes where totally meaningless.
February 28th, 2006 at 7:16 pm
Though I started my web designing from it , it did not take much for me to move . The main reason being , errors in codes while editing and complicated features. :)