Official line
Replaced by SharePoint Designer and Expression Web.
Microsoft · Developer Tools · Product
FrontPage
Discontinued
1997–2006 · 9 years in market
Launched
Jan 1, 1997
Discontinued
Jan 1, 2006
Cause of death
Replaced by successor
Evidence
Unsourced
What was it?
WYSIWYG web editor that taught a generation to make sites — and to generate infamous HTML.
Why it died
Editorial reading
The web professionalized. FrontPage’s lock-in extensions became a punchline.
Founder takeaway
Tools that emit non-standard markup train your users to leave for something cleaner.
Sources
Unsourced — editorial reading
No primary source is attached yet. Treat the interpretation as editorial, not a citation.
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