Posted by: kurtsh | September 15, 2005

BETA: Microsoft Expressions Suite

We announced the Microsoft Expressions Suite of 3 tools at the PDC.
 
  • Expression Graphic Designer: 
    This was codenamed Acrylic that enables creative designers to create rich graphics and visual objects to be used by Web Designers or Programmers in their applications.  Think of a tool similar to Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator with all the power, but the friendliness of Office tools.
  • Expression Interactive Designer:
    This is a tool for integrating visuals or the "presentation layer" of an application with a backend program.  Remember that with Microsoft’s programming paradigm, this can either be a native Windows application or a Web-based application served through the web.  We don’t care.  It’s all done however using the Visual Studio 2005 suite of programming tools.
  • Express Web Designer:
    This is sort of FrontPage’s next evolution… kinda.  It enables people to design and layout presentation environments leveraging the graphic objects created in Graphic Designer, and provides a UI/Presentation layer for Interactive Designer.
Here’s a demo of the Microsoft Expression Family:

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