Frontpage - Microsoft’s Net Solution

Frontpage - Microsoft's Web solution You know Vermeer's story. I have never heard about Vermeer. really. As I talk often with other people who have emigrated to the vast online world, it is normal to talk like this ... Vermeer is a pioneer of FrontPage, quietly and quickly into Microsoft's "empire" It is an integrated company. It has evolved into two major MS technologies, Personal Web Server (PWS) and FrontPage, and these are now widely used as the main component of Office 2000 in homes all over the world.

My first task is to write ASP pages with various editors, from Microsoft FrontPage to HotMeTaL Pro, EditPlus, to manage compatibility between browsers between Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer 4, and for SQL Server 5 It was writing. Stored Procedures Supporting Commercial Web Sites Japanese, Russian, English, Spanish - There is no consistent UTF - 8 support throughout the software stack. Unit testing is unprecedented. Agile manifesto is not written. Continuous integration is a dream. XML is not even a buzzword. Our QA strategy includes restarting the server once a week. In order to analyze the JPEG file uploaded to the server, we developed our own COM + component with Visual J ++. When the JPEG 2000 encoded file begins to pop up, our component is broken.

In 1998 I acquired Vermeer FrontPage and worked hard to bring the concept of the "life network" of the Office document into my workplace. The first iteration was called "Office Web Server" and it was transformed significantly into FrontPage. OWS is called SharePoint's "team site" part or "where files are placed". But the most important new move is to create web version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint. This is a native HTML application that runs in the browser and allows you to edit real Office documents with OWS / SharePoint. We saw everyone failed, we know we can not build all the offices, we have to balance the existing business.