Scoble comments on FrontPage: “The thing that really killed FrontPage? Microsoft’s marketing team tested the name on a range of developers and Web designers/builders. They all derided it. The marketers learned there was no way they were going to be able to continue with the FrontPage brand. So they killed the brand. Does the code live on? Yes. Sorta. The Microsoft Expression Web product is really a continuation of FrontPage. But it’s been totally rebuilt.”

One thing that Robert forgot to mention is that some of the FrontPage functionality has been included in SharePoint designer as well, since FrontPage served as a template designer for SharePoint 2003. It is interesting to see developers and IT people cringe whenever the word FrontPage is mentioned- I’ve yet to see a positive reaction to that brand/product.

UPDATE- Looks like the SharePoint idea has been picked up in the comments on the post.