bill - 1:21 am on Dec 6, 2006 (gmt 0)

Microsoft Expresses New Design, Web Products [windowsitpro.com] Microsoft Expression Studio will retail for $599 and be available as a $349 upgrade to any user who purchases a standalone Expression product. Expression Web, available now, costs $299, or $99 as an upgrade from FrontPage. Expression Blend will retail for $499, and Expression Media will cost $299. Many of these products are available as prerelease downloads from the Microsoft Web site.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around all these Expression products...Here's what I could glean from the sites:

• Expression Web: Combines FrontPage and Visual Studio. For making standards compliant websites
  
• Expression Blend: A design tool... haven't really figured this one out.
  
• Expression Design: An illustration and graphic design tool (ala. Illustrator?)
  
• Expression Media: A digital asset management tool... This one wasn't so clear to me either. Seems to have something to do with the iView Multimedia tool, but I haven't used that.
  
• Expression Studio: contains Expression Web, Expression Blend, Expression Design & Expression Media