Microsoft Expression Design was

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's commercial professional illustration

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and

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graphic design tool for web images based on

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, which was acquired by

in 2003. It is available free of charge from Microsoft and is a component of the discontinued

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suite. Expression Design is more oriented towards editing

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and web graphics rather than print graphics (like

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and

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) and does not incorporate all of the raster image editing features of the original

History

Expression Design was codenamed ''Acrylic Graphic Designer'' during Microsoft Professional Developer Conference 2005 as part of Microsoft Expression professional tools for

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, and was originally announced as ''Expression Graphic Designer'' until the current name was adopted in December 2006. The first version of Expression Design was released to manufacturing along with other Expression products on 30 April 2007. The RTM news was announced at Microsoft's MIX 07 conference for web developers and designers. Service Pack 1 for Expression Design was released on October 17, 2007. Expression Design requires the .NET Framework 3.0 as it uses

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. Expression Design is not available as an individual product, but rather only as part of the

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suite. Originally Expression Studio was not included in any

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subscription, but in 2007 Microsoft added it to the highest level MSDN Subscription. Version 2 was released in May 2008 as part of Expression Studio 2. Expression Design is available for

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XP,

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, and remains compatible with

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and

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as of 2019. A trial version of Expression Design is available. A free copy of Expression Studio 4 (as well as older versions) is available as part of Microsoft's

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campaign to eligible students. Expression Design 4, released as part of

4 added the ability to import Windows Metafile (WMF), Enhanced Metafile (EMF), and Enhanced Metafile Plus (EMF+) files into your Expression Design project. As of December, 2012, Microsoft has announced that Expression Studio will no longer be a stand-alone product.

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is being integrated into

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, while

Expression Web Microsoft Expression Web is a discontinued HTML editor and general web design software product by Microsoft. It was discontinued on December 20, 2012, and subsequently made available free of charge from Microsoft. It was a component of the also ...

and Expression Design will now be free products. Technical support is available for customers who purchased Web or Design following their published support lifetime guides, while no support will be offered to free downloaders. No new versions of Expression Web or Design are planned.

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Expression Blend and Design team blog
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https://expressiondesign4.com
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History

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