Microsoft FrontPage was a popular WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool. It was replaced by Microsoft Expression Web in 2006.
Publisher
Microsoft Corporation
Last Version
FrontPage 2003 SP3
Released
1995
Discontinued
2006
Microsoft FrontPage was one of the earliest and most popular website creation tools, bundled with Microsoft Office Professional editions. It allowed non-technical users to build websites without writing HTML. FrontPage was notorious for adding proprietary "FrontPage Server Extensions" that required special server support, but millions of websites were built with it.
Why was it discontinued?
Microsoft discontinued FrontPage in 2006 and released Expression Web as its replacement. FrontPage's reliance on proprietary server extensions made it incompatible with modern web standards.
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Microsoft replaced FrontPage with Expression Web 4, which is now free to download from Microsoft. It's far more modern and supports HTML5, CSS3, and PHP.
FrontPage 2003 can sometimes run on Windows 10/11 in compatibility mode, but with many issues. Expression Web 4 (free from Microsoft) is a better option for legacy FrontPage projects.
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