Front Page Extensions (link)

[Patrick]

I thought FP extensions were free. The concept was that the users paid 
for Front Page and the functionality. I can see them charging since they 
want more $$$, but with so many people using free apache if they charged 
for the extensions, and no one installed it, they would sell less copies 
of Front Page.

Sure enough here they are...
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0c5eb0ad-e1ad-4100-9b76-8772a8220062&Displa
yLang=en

Jason Clinton wrote:

> Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
>
>> Last I looked, MS Front Page was coming around and starting to work 
>> better with non-MS servers.  What's the current status?  Do "Front 
>> Page Extensions" still offer any functionality to a web page, or are 
>> they just a convenience for low-level users in uploading the pages?
>>  
>>
> They're still evil(tm), but they do offer some functionality such as 
> dynamic date stamping, form submittal, and rudimentary server side 
> includes -- all things that can be handled with a little knowledge of 
> web technology. They are available for purchase from Microsoft and 
> will work with Apache. However, I expect the product will die the 
> instant MS has 50.0001% of the market share in web servers.
>
> If your users insist on using FrontPage (as the ones I work with do), 
> Apache w/ the FP extensions is probably your safest bet. I have had 
> some success, however, moving those users to Dreamweaver after I 
> explained that Dreamweaver will work with any web server out there.