SharePoint Designer Becomes FREE
Posted
Saturday, April 04, 2009 1:20 AM
by
Itay Shakury
Microsoft has decided to make SharePoint Designer a free product. it can be downloaded for free from it’s product page at Microsoft.com: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163419.aspx
The announcement states that future versions of SharePoint Designer will also be free.
Customers that have already purchased SharePoint Designer 2007, and are in SA agreement will get Expression Web license in addition.
This part is actually very interesting, because as of now, Expression Web have very little to do with SharePoint. This will probably change in later versions (as stated in the announcement FAQ, and in the interview with Tom Rizzo).
For more info: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA103607621033.aspx
-- My name is Itay Shakury and I’m a SharePoint Consultant --