Microsoft Expression Design

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Microsoft Expression Design

Screenshot of Expression Design 4
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Initial release	August 30, 2007; 17 years ago (2007-08-30)
Final release	4 (8.0.31217.1) / December 20, 2012; 11 years ago (2012-12-20)
Operating system	Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8
Platform	IA-32; .NET Framework, Silverlight, DirectX
Type	Vector graphics editor
License	Freeware
Website	microsoft.com/expression/

Microsoft Expression Design was Microsoft's commercial professional illustration vector and raster graphic design tool for web images based on Creature House Expression, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2003.^[1] It is available free of charge from Microsoft and is a component of the discontinued Microsoft Expression Studio suite. Expression Design is more oriented towards editing XAML and web graphics rather than print graphics (like Photoshop and Illustrator) and does not incorporate all of the raster image editing features of the original Creature House Expression.