Very frightening thinking Front Page is going away.

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Very frightening thinking Front Page is going away.

We have been using FrontPage since 1998. It has been a lifesaver since the
founding of our corporation. We have grown as a 100% e-commerce corporation
fro zero to over a million in sales this year.

We use FrontPage everyday to add, modify or create information on our site
www.ringdesigner.com. We have a 275meg site extremely image rich housed on
an apache server (Verio).

We have resisted the hype to change to another program (Cold Fusion etc) as
FrontPage was our foundation platform.

Bottom line, if it ain't broken why go fix it?

Between how Outlook 2007 does not seem an any functional improvement to
Outlook 2003, and this FrontPage cancelation, what are the powers that be
smoking up in Redmondf?


Greg Gates
Co founder
www.ringdesigner.com
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My concern: Are the MVPs going away also? :)

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Thomas said:
Someone within the last few weeks indicated that their web host was pulling the extensions as of
this July (I think they indicated July), so if that is the case with manyweb host, then FP will be
of little use to those of us that depend on the extensions for publishing, etc.

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I am not at present using Frontpage Extensions but I would object to
having to upgrade my copy of Frontpage 2002 after spending so much
time on it. Personally I think that the amount of time I spent on it
amounts to about £1,500! AutoCAD took me £7,000 in time so the
reality is that software takes time to use (if not master) and the cost
of the software even AutoCAD is cheap!! compared to the time required.
If the Expressions software actually costs less to use, then that is a
plus. If we are going to pay more that is a minus. If someone could
convince me that buying Adobe software would be easier than Frontpage
or its successor then I would spend more on the software, as the cost
of using it effectively would be less. Personally "expressions" is a
naff name the only negative association with the name "Frontpage" is
that it could infer that all the software is suitable for is creating a
frontpage! otherwise it is a brilliant name - frontpage is the name of
the first page and most important page of a newspaper. Has Microsoft
shot it itself in the foot? what better marketing strategy is there
than Frontpage 2000, Frontpage 2002, Frontpage 2003, etc., provided the
new version adds greater functionality and easier user features.
 
Steve said:
I have the beta versions of both EWD and SharePoint Designer installed.

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No Steve, but it sounds very different to FP. FP2003 is still being
sold on Amazon UK for 155GBP upgrade 81GBP this seems to indicate that
the customer prefers to stick with FP or buy some other software.

I don't mind downloading a beta version of EWD provided it can be
safely removed from my PC and it won't cock things up! At present I
have a little less than half a million files on the machine!

Geoff (-:
 
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