The first version, SharePoint Designer 2007, retains more FrontPage features than Expression Web (such as web components, database, marquee, hit counter, navigation bars and map insert).

SharePoint Designer 2007 was initially a commercial software product.

[6][7] On April 24, 2009, Microsoft released SharePoint Designer 2007 Service Pack 2.

[9] On October 24, 2011, Microsoft released SharePoint Designer 2007 Service Pack 3.

[14] SharePoint Designer shares its codebase, user interface and HTML rendering engine with Expression Web, and does not rely on Internet Explorer's Trident engine.