I think they saw/foresaw that market disappear thanks to web apps and services like Wordpress, Blogger and other 'CMS as a service' sites.
To be honest, it has probably made the web a nicer looking and more accessible place, lowering the barrier to entry substantially. For the rest who prefer to code, they'd know about VS Express, VS, Webstorm, Eclipse, Netbeans, Sublime Text, etc. -----Original Message----- From: "Greg Keogh" <[email protected]> Sent: 15/09/2013 6:04 PM To: "ozDotNet" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Expression Web It lost out due to Sharepoint Designer or whatever that has now mutated into and there was no point competing with Sharepoint Designer + VS Express as it just created way to much internal bad blood. But no home user, or low-tech user is going to ever see SharePoint Designer or VS Express (I don't use either). The old FrontPage filled an important product hole I thought and I really liked it back in 97-98 when it arrived (at least it killed HotDog and similar crap). Then it quietly disappeared and turned up mutated as Expression Web. Now it's gone again. Has Microsoft simply abandoned the product line of "web design apps for home users"? Greg K
