Microsoft Expression Studio is a discontinued suite of tools for designing and building Web and Windows client applications and rich digital media content.

[3] Microsoft Expression Studio 2 was released on May 1, 2008, which also included a graphical makeover for the suite to an inverse of the previous black-on-white theme.

[8] Prior to version 3, the suite also consisted of Microsoft Expression Media, a digital asset management application sold to Phase One.

A result of the complete rewrite was features like customizable toolbars and menus, standard Windows color scheme, spell check, DLL addins, file menu export feature, drag-and-drop between remote sites, comparing sites by timestamp were removed in this version.

[14][15][16] Version 3 introduced Expression Web 3 SuperPreview tool for comparing and rendering webpage in various browsers.

The free version available to everyone and included in MSDN Premium lacks IIS Live Smooth Streaming and unlimited screen capture.