Microsoft Expression Studio review and information 

_{The Expression Studio educational discount package from Microsoft offers four innovative programs that establish both new and experienced areas for the company. Usually retailing at £450, students and their family members can take advantage of our educational licensing deal with Microsoft and get the whole suite for around £48 – an unbelievable discount!}


Easy-to-use yet powerful

_{With FrontPage now evolved into SharePoint, users who don’t want to jump in at the deep end can hone their craft with the easy-to-use yet powerful Expression Web program. Alongside this we have Expression Design, Expression Blend and Expression Media which are completely new applications.}

_{Together they form a formidable digital content design suite, providing ready and able support to both Microsoft Silverlight (Adobe Flash alternative) and the .NET platform. Creating digital media content for browsers is the goal for Silverlight and for advanced users there is the option of featuring JavaScript (you can command a Silverlight app with JavaScript) and also AJAX (Silverlight can auto-load content from elsewhere). Clearly, Microsoft have targeted designers’ needs and even at this first attempt, have achieved much success in doing so.}

More strings to your bow

_{The incredible value of having the full professional suite at an educational discount price is soon apparent as more strings are added to your bow: Want to create flash style video? There's Expression Blend. Need to edit images or create vector graphics?}

_{No need for two programs (ie. Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator) when Expression Design does both. Time to organise and edit all those many gigabytes of digital files? There’s Expression Media. Want to show off all your new content through a new site design? Expression Web will make it happen.}

_{Certainly, it would be foolish to underestimate the power and potential these applications posses not only as standalone software but together as the Swiss Army Knife of digital content and web design.}

_{Future incarnations of Microsoft Expression will have a lot to live up to!}