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My father still updates his website with Frontpage (he had a recent 6 month outage because he inadvertently deleted the Windows XP vmdk on his system, but I recovered that for him recently.) He’s 75, and isn’t interested in converting or learning anything new at this stage.

The funny thing is for years his home-made site was the top google hit if you searched for “hill's criteria” (See Hill's criteria of causation). His site is http://drabruzzi.com/



Hmm, how do you manage to acquire a legal of copy of Frontpage (even Express) these days for your dad?


The later versions "Sharepoint Designer" are free from Microsoft and still available on their downloads page.

Frontpage may be old enough to consider it 'abandonware,' a quick Google for "free frontpage" has a lot of downloads including one from Kean.edu with an embedded key.


He still has the install disk! Though my repair was to pull the vmdk off his old, broken laptop to get him working again.


Was FrontPage ever sold digitally? I wouldn't be surprised if my parents still had their disc copies of Office 95-XP (some even legal thanks to PC bundle deals).


Most don't (shouldn't?) care about the legality of 20+ year old software that's no longer being sold.




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