Your sites didn't magically vanish when MS failed to issue a new version of FP. Whine, whine, whine. Rely on FrontPage Server Extensions (the end of which was announced in 2006) are still working (on fewer and fewer servers). Oh, stop making things up! MS didn't dump your '5 small business websites'! The Front Page program was supported long after MS stopped publishing new versions, and FrontPage websites are still littering every corner of the Web.

That I'll move to a product whose developers demonstrate a commitment to ongoing support. The longer we go without something new in Expression the more likely it is Since Microsoft has moved towards adopting standards and dropped the old FrontPage-specific features I find less and less tying me to Microsoft development tools. I've had Microsoft cut the legs out from under applications that I've used to support my business and from core functionality that I've implemented as part of business solutions that made up a large chunk of my Unfortunately, this isn't a one-time thing. Dropping scripting from the development environment was not appreciated. Replaced their own product with purchased functionality.

Itĭemonstrates to those who have committed to the product that Microsoft isn't about to do to Expression Studio what they've done to applications like Microsoft Accounting and core functionality like Indexing Service. An announcement, or better yet, a beta does have a valid purpose. For all the comments that Microsoft has two versions in work, etc. Well here it is, 1 year + since the question was asked and still nothing about a new release.

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