Bye, Bye Microsoft FrontPage

Microsoft is officially making its move away from FrontPage with the announcement of its “Next Generation of Web Authoring and Design Tools,” Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 and Microsoft Expression Web Designer.

Read the Press Release for a description of the two applications.

Back in the day when I was playing around with the initial releases of SharePoint, I felt there was no easy or good way of customizing SharePoint sites. Editing files was a hassle, building Web Parts takes know-how, and FrontPage could modify some parts of SharePoint sites but not enough. Maybe splitting FrontPage into two apps is a good move for SharePoint users.