What is Microsoft doing? SharePoint Designer is clearly FrontPage. It contains UI elements from both Office and some minor hints towards Visual Studio. But across Office, SPD and VS, the UI elements are horribly inconsistent and what is worse: the editors are too. But it doesn’t stop there because there is now Expression Web! All the Expression products from what I have seen are horribly different than any other Microsoft product out there. In some ways this is good, but in most cases it confuses me as to why certain functionality doesn’t exist.

At the end of the day, I really wish the window functionality (docking, hiding, etc) existed in all Microsoft products that contain even a small hint of that situation.