Expression Studio 2 RTM

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Last year the Microsoft Expression team shipped a new suite of tools for creative professionals. This first release of Expression Studio marked a significant milestone in the history of development tools at Microsoft, delivering superior designer-developer workflow and providing designers a set of interaction design, graphic design, Web design, digital asset management and video production tools to deliver better user experiences on Windows and the Web.

Just one year later Expression Studio 2 has been released to the web adding Silverlight support along with a new product, Expression Encoder. You can now design user interfaces for both the Windows desktop and the web by utilizing the power of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight. Create experiences with new levels of usability. Expression also integrates nicely with Visual Studio 2008, sharing projects between designers and developers.

With Expression Studio, designers can do some pretty amazing things with unprecedented levels of productivity. Also, the seamless integration between Expression Studio and Visual Studio 2008 (and Visual Studio 2005) allows unparalleled collaboration between designers and developers. Microsoft partner and customer examples can be found in the Silverlight Showcase and the Expression Gallery.

The Expression release includes the following products:

You will be able to get a new professional subscription of Expression for designers. The professional subscription includes: Expression Studio, Visual Studio Standard, Office Standard, Office Visio Professional, Windows XP, Windows Vista Business Edition, Virtual PC, Parallels Desktop for Mac, Pre-configured virtualized server environments.

You can also give Expression Studio a test drive.