Adieu FrontPage, hello Expression
InternetNews | at | by Mike
FrontPage has been a part of Microsoft Office for several versions, but beginning with Office 2007, if you want to do some heavy-duty Web page editing, you will need a whole new, stand-alone product that Microsoft has just begun beta testing.
Microsoft today released the first Community Technology Preview of Microsoft Expression Web Designer, the successor to FrontPage as Microsoft's Web page editor.
FrontPage joined the Microsoft family in 1996 when the company acquired Vermeer Technologies, which developed the HTML editor. Several versions of Office later, FrontPage hasn't been upgraded anywhere near as aggressively as the other Office applications and is simply too old and out of date to be merely revised, said Microsoft. Instead, Microsoft developed a whole new Web editor.