Microsoft has decided to discontinue the Expression product family only five years after the first application included into the suite was officially released.
The company announced the Expression brand in 2005, while Expression Studio, the first app wearing this new badge, was launched two years later.
The reason behind this decision is fairly simple: Microsoft wants its users to move to Visual Studio 2012, so some of the features available in the Expression product family will also be integrated into this app.
“Microsoft is committed to providing best-in-class tools for building modern applications. In support of these industry trends Microsoft is consolidating our lead design and development offerings — Expression and Visual Studio — to offer all of our customers a unified solution that brings together the best of Web and modern development patterns,” the company says on the official Microsoft Expression web page.
In addition, Expression Encoder 4 Pro will still be available for purchase through 2013, the Redmond-based technology firm said, while Expression Encoder 4 will be released as a free download. Technical support, however, won’t be provided for any of the software solutions released with a freeware license.
Expression Blend will be merged with Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2012 to provide a single advanced solution capable of supporting the creation of Windows Store and Windows Phone apps.
“Blend will be fully integrated with Visual Studio 2012. Blend for Visual Studio 2012 provides a rich design-centric environment for building Windows Store apps and Windows Phone apps. In addition to that, WPF, Silverlight and SketchFlow support is available today as a preview and will be released in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2,” Microsoft continued.
Via: Microsoft Kills Off Expression Software Tools
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