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.
The RTM news was announced at Microsoft's MIX 07 conference for web developers and designers. Microsoft Expression Studio was released to manufacturing ( RTM) on April 30, 2007. Microsoft Expression Encoder was introduced at NAB 2007. Microsoft introduced Microsoft Expression on September 16, 2005, at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.