[mso] Future of Front Page?
- From: "Greg Chapman" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:39:19 -0600
Last week, I saw a query about FP's future, noted it, failed to check, etc.,
and then, today, I see this in an article about Google entering the Web
Authoring/Hosting market:
"Analysts have speculated that Google will eventually produce a suite of
Web-based software to compete with Microsoft Office, or a currency system to
compete with PayPal, a division of eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people).
While Google has said that Page Creator will not offer e-commerce
capabilities, the product does compete directly with Microsoft's FrontPage
software. However, that piece of software is currently being phased-out by
Microsoft and will be gone by the time Office 2007 arrives. The beta version
of Microsoft's Office Live contains a Web page hosting service."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11525329/
"Google launches Web-design service
Page Creator to compete against Microsoft, Apple products"
Has anyone here been keeping up with this? It's not what I would have
expected as it essentially takes MS out of intermediate website development,
drives all their efforts into MS Office Live (subscription software, kids)
or Visual Studio. By default, even if I could stand either FP or
Dreamweaver, I'd be saying I'm not a customer of either approach and my only
choice would be DW.
So, if you have better info, I'd love to hear your take.
Greg Chapman
http://www.mousetrax.com
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