Goodnight FrontPage

Q&A: Microsoft Unveils Next Generation of Web Authoring and Design Tools...

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PressPass: What is happening to the current FrontPage product, and how is Microsoft communicating with FrontPage users to alleviate concerns about migration, ongoing technical support and the like?

Richards: After we fully release SharePoint Designer 2007 and Expression Web Designer, FrontPage will be discontinued gradually [Greg: emphasis added]. This process will bring our customers and partners a broader choice of tools that go far beyond the capabilities within the current FrontPage product to meet the needs of today’s and tomorrow’s Web authors, designers and developers.

In the meantime, Microsoft will continue to provide current FrontPage customers with full product support through June 2008, as well as clear guidance on how they can smoothly migrate to SharePoint Designer 2007 or Expression Web Designer, depending on their roles and needs. In the near future, all registered Microsoft Office FrontPage customers will receive e-mail from Microsoft outlining our overall strategy and roadmap for these next-generation Web authoring tools. We also will provide continual updates on the Microsoft Office product Web site. In addition, current FrontPage customers in both the retail and enterprise channels will be able to take advantage of special upgrade offers starting in the second half of 2006.

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Goodnight FrontPage…

The only time I currently use FrontPage is to modify SharePoint sites, so transforming FrontPage into SharePoint Designer makes sense (to me at least).

(via Jan Tielens' Bloggings [MVP] – Press Release: Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 and Microsoft Expression Web Designer)