sharepoint1 There have been lots of great announcements from Microsoft in the last number of months. Anytime we make announcement of a free product offering, people should take note….we all like free! As of today, Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer is now a freely downloadable product.  Today, the SharePoint Team Blog made the announcement on their blog.

SHAREPOINT PRODUCT TEAM BLOG:
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/02/sharepoint-designer-available-as-a-free-download.aspx

Users can take advantage of Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to create and deploy interactive solutions on the SharePoint platform, without having to write code.

  • Automate business processes such as document approval, custom event notification, and other collaboration tasks with the Workflow Designer.
  • Create reporting and tracking applications using data views and forms to easily gather and aggregate data from outside your site and from SharePoint lists and document libraries on the Web site.
  • Get started fast with pre-built Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Application Templates, which are fully customizable and extensible using Office SharePoint Designer 2007.
  • Extend your solutions by building advanced interactive Microsoft ASP.NET pages. Insert and edit controls with the same powerful activity menus and control property grid previously found only in development tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

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