Okay, read through the link you provided. Sorry, folks, this kind of dev drive is making little sense to me from the Office perspective. It makes a little sense from the perspective of driving server solution sales. Greg Greg Chapman wrote: >Excellent, but there is this page: >http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/suites.mspx > >...which shows no Office package which includes FP/Expression. Puzzles >me. I'll study the link you provide. > >Bear with me, I'm starting to get it but there's a lot of dreck to worm >through. > >Greg Chapman > > > >James S. Huggins (MSO) wrote: > > > >> >>=========================== >>The part I was interested in is if MS is abandoning the intermediate web >>dev market. >>=========================== >> >>They have not. >> >> >>=========================== >>It's sounding like they have if FP or a similar facsimile is >>not available to work with conventional servers, yada. >>=========================== >> >>FP does. The new Expression product, based on FP will. >> >> >>=========================== >>Allowing the perception that FP >>is gone...well, if it isn't, allowing the perception to take root might >>be a big mistake. >>=========================== >> >>This has been discussed at some lengths on the FP Lists. It seems that the new >>Expression product will take over where the old FP product was, serving pretty >>much the same market. >> >>Here is one page: >>http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2006/feb06/02-15Designer.mspx >> >> ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************