🆚 Microsoft FrontPage vs. Microsoft Word

Type

HTML editor
Tool

About

Microsoft FrontPage was a WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool that was part of Microsoft Office until it was discontinued in 2003.

It offered drag-and-drop page design, automatic hyperlink management, built-in templates, and integration with Microsoft technologies such as Active Server Pages (ASP) and FrontPage Server Extensions for publishing dynamic content.

Microsoft Word is a word processing program developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 suites for creating, editing, and formatting text documents.

It provides rich text editing with advanced formatting, templates and styles, spell check and grammar assistance, tables and graphics insertion, document layout controls, and collaboration features such as real-time co-authoring and comments.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States
Redmond, Washington, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ❌
$149

Categories

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Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Microsoft FrontPage HTML editor is 5 times more popular than Microsoft Word.
Total websites

Market share

HTML Editors

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Microsoft FrontPage is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Microsoft Word is more popular in Bangladesh, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Italy
Netherlands
Canada
Japan
Spain
France
Brazil

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Microsoft FrontPage is more popular than Microsoft Word in all market segments.
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Entertainment
Personal Pages
Travel
Public Information
Online Shopping
Recreation/Hobbies
Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#36,260
#41,680
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Name
Rank
#57,724
#83,577
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See also

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