{"id":65,"date":"2009-04-02T06:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2009-04-02T06:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T11:42:00","slug":"sharepoint-designer-is-now-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"SharePoint Designer is now FREE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ExternalClassD1C2396EF4444C85A35078C36DE803B5\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &#39;Tahoma&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"4\"><strong><u><\/u><\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &#39;Tahoma&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; font-size: 9pt\"><a title=\"SnagIt Capture by pstorkoh, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7962873@N07\/3406061941\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SnagIt Capture\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3541\/3406061941_47004fbbb9_o.png\" width=\"486\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a>&#160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &#39;Tahoma&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; font-size: 9pt\"><\/span>&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">No, this is not an April Fool&#8217;s Joke that is just a day late.&#160; The image above comes from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/spd\">SharePoint Designer Online Office Site<\/a> and as the download link shows SharePoint Designer is now a FREE download.&#160; You can find an open letter from Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sharepointdesigner\/HA103607611033.aspx\">here<\/a> that explains the change.&#160; The key points as explained by the letter are these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starting on April 1, 2009, Microsoft is making SharePoint Designer 2007 available as a free download. <\/li>\n<li>Customers with SharePoint Designer 2007 Software Assurance (SA) current as of April 1, 2009 will receive upgrade rights to Expression Web for the lifetime of their SA agreement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <\/font><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; &#160; No, this is not an April Fool&#8217;s Joke that is just a day late.&#160; The image above comes from the SharePoint Designer Online Office Site and as the download link shows SharePoint Designer is now a FREE download.&#160; You can find an open letter from Microsoft here that explains the change.&#160; The key &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=65\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SharePoint Designer is now FREE!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[31,15],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sharepoint-2007-designer","tag-designer","tag-sharepoint_2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}