Download SharePoint Designer 2007 For Free

In a letter to its customers Microsoft said that it planning to make available SHAREPOINT DESIGNER 2007 free for download from April 2009.SharePoint Designer 2007 provides you with tools to automate your business processes, build efficient applications on top of the Microsoft SharePoint platform, and tailor your SharePoint site to your needs.

Here’s what the letter had to say

One frequent comment from you to us here at Microsoft is that a significant part of the capabilities of SharePoint Designer are seen as just an extension of what SharePoint already does. In addition, we hear more and more that you want to be able to create increasingly dynamic web sites on SharePoint.

In response to this feedback, we are implementing a number of changes to promote and facilitate even more customization efforts on top of our platform:

Starting on April 1, 2009, we are making SharePoint Designer 2007 available as a free download.

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.

Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000; Windows Vista; Windows XP

Download Share Point Designer 2007.

You can also try Features ( CodePlex ) which adds new functionality to a SharePoint 2007 farm by creating new Features to address deficiencies in SharePoint 2007 or add new capabilities.

Download : Features for Share Point 2007.