Microsoft aims higher with Web software
C|Net | at | by Mike
After years of playing with amateurs, Microsoft has decided to push its FrontPage Web-authoring software into the big leagues. The company on Tuesday announced details of FrontPage 2003, the next version of the package, slated to come out this summer. Other Office System products with which it works are also due later this year.
Previous versions of FrontPage have offered a light-duty Web editing tool useful for consumers and small businesses with a modest Web presence. The new version, however, is aimed squarely at the business world, with enhancements intended to appeal to professional Web designers and IT administrators. As with other portions of the upcoming Office 2003 family of software, the biggest changes in FrontPage revolve around Extensible Markup Language (XML), the rapidly gaining standard for sharing data among disparate computer systems.