In 2006, Microsoft announced that FrontPage would eventually be superseded by 2 products. Front3 can also be used with Windows SharePoint Services.Ī version for the classic Mac OS was released in 1998 however, it had fewer features than the Windows product and Microsoft has never updated it. However, with Front3, Microsoft began moving away from proprietary Server Extensions to standard protocols like FTP and WebDAV for remote web publishing and authoring. FPSE 2002 was the last released version which also works with Front3 and was later updated for IIS 6.0 as well.

Front0 Server Extensions worked with earlier versions of FrontPage as well. Microsoft offered both Windows and Unix-based versions of FPSE. Both sets of extensions needed to be installed on the target web server for its content and publishing features to work. The extension set was significantly enhanced for Microsoft inclusion of FrontPage into the Microsoft Office line-up with Office 97 and subsequently renamed FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE). With Front0, both programs were merged into the Editor.įrontPage used to require a set of server-side plugins originally known as IIS Extensions. Up to Front, the FrontPage Editor, which was used for designing pages, was a separate application from the FrontPage Explorer which was used to manage web site folders. Bundled on CD with the NT 4.0 Server release, Front.1 would run under NT 4.0 (Server or Workstation) or Windows 95. Īs a 'WYSIWYG' (What You See Is What You Get) editor, FrontPage is designed to hide the details of pages' HTML code from the user, making it possible for novices to create web pages and web sites easily.įrontPage's initial outing under the Microsoft name came in 1996 with the release of Windows NT 4.0 Server and its constituent Web server Internet Information Services 2.0. Vermeer was acquired by Microsoft in January 1996 specifically so that Microsoft could add FrontPage to its product line-up allowing them to gain an advantage in the browser wars, as FrontPage was designed to create web pages for their own browser, Internet Explorer. FrontPage was initially created by Cambridge, Massachusetts company Vermeer Technologies, Incorporated, evidence of which can be easily spotted in file names and directories prefixed _vti_ in web sites created using FrontPage.

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