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"We have an incredibly powerful professional tooling offering with Visual Studio that ranges from a free set of tools with Express all the way to team development solutions with our Team Systems product," he said.

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"It really makes the product approachable, enjoyable, and that was a big investment from the previous beta to now."Īs far as Webmatrix's place among Microsoft's more high-end Web development and publishing tools, Goldfarb explained that the free software has been designed as a stepping stone of sorts. It's not the features, it's the polish," he said. "One of the most important things you can do in a product like this is the small things-the fit and finish, the usability. Goldfarb said most of the changes that have taken place between Beta 3 and this new version were based on user feedback. "We're trying to make Web development, and the Microsoft technology stack more approachable by a wider audience than we have in the past." That's one of the explicit goals here," Brian Goldfarb, the director of developer platform marketing at Microsoft, told CNET in an interview earlier this week. "The majority of the users are going to be new to this. The company expects a fully-baked version of the software to make it more attractive to first-time users.


The software, which was first introduced in July, gives users tools to create and manage Web sites while staying compatible with Microsoft's Visual Studio and SQL Server products. After three rounds of betas, Microsoft tomorrow is releasing a finalized version of its Webmatrix Web development software.
