A little known feature that some described as Microsoft's online version of FrontPage, the company's ill-fated WYSIWIG HTML editor, will be dropped within weeks according to a Knowledgebase post



From Techradar:

The latter confirms that the SharePoint Online Public Website feature will be deprecated from January 2015 and will be available for existing user for a minimum of two years. New Office 365 users won't have access to it. Moving forward, the statement says, Office 365 customers will have access to third-party offerings that will enable them to easily integrate their public presence with their Office 365 service.

  Microsoft quietly kills free Public Websites feature