


- #HOW MUCH DOES MICROSOFT EXPRESSION WEB 4 FULL VERSION COST UPGRADE#
- #HOW MUCH DOES MICROSOFT EXPRESSION WEB 4 FULL VERSION COST LICENSE#
#HOW MUCH DOES MICROSOFT EXPRESSION WEB 4 FULL VERSION COST UPGRADE#
(Further confounding matters, Microsoft is offering MSDN subscribers who had FrontPage as part of their subscriptions a $99 upgrade for Expression Web.) However, SharePoint Designer is available via Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN), and Expression Web is not.
#HOW MUCH DOES MICROSOFT EXPRESSION WEB 4 FULL VERSION COST LICENSE#
SharePoint Designer and Expression Web cost the same - $299 each for a full license - and both include an almost identical feature set.

Even though both Expression Web and SharePoint Designer will continue to be able to be used for Web design, "the two products will diverge more over time," Smith says.īut with lines increasingly blurring between Web pages and Web apps, the choice doesn't seem to be quite so clear-cut. "Down the pike, Expression Web will be even more for creative designers, and SharePoint Designer will follow its own path," says Wayne Smith, senior product manager for Expression Web. Sound confusing? Microsoft officials maintain that the decision is straightforward, and will become even more so over time. When Microsoft retired FrontPage at the end of last year, developers wanting to use Microsoft technologies to build Web sites faced three choices: Work with the new Expression Web, adopt SharePoint Designer or work with Visual Studio. Microsoft Expression Web, SharePoint Designer, Visual Studio offer tough Web-tool choices to dev shops.
