Microsoft Migrating Live Spaces Users To WordPress

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has decided it can't compete with the established blogging platforms out there and will instead embrace one of them. Talking at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Dharmesh Mehta, Director of Product Management for Windows Live, announced that all existing Windows Live Spaces users will be migrated over to an account at WordPress.com. This decision is one Microsoft has prepared for, and the CEO of Automattic, the company that runs and develops the WordPress platform, was also present on stage with Mehta. The two companies have worked together to ensure Spaces users will take all of their data with them when migrating and have visitors automatically forwarded to the new URL associated with their blog."

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Can Wordpress.com handle the dozens of new users?

[hawks5999]

And the hundreds that read Live Spaces blogs?

Re:Microsoft Is

[AnonymousClown]

DEAD.

Good riddance.

Yours In Moscow, K. Trout

Oh God! I hope not! We need Microsoft! They're the only ones that are checking the power of HP, Oracle, IBM, and most of all APPLE! MS is kind of like the United States in their power. Yeah, they fuck up quite a few things but without them, petty tyrants would have their way. Just think if Apple became the Super Power. For one, Flash would be killed .......

Die Microsoft! Die! Die! Die!

Re:Bullet Meets Foot

[Capt.DrumkenBum]

When did Microsoft stop leveraging assets to achieve strategic successes that harmonize the enterprise?

I needed a shower after reading that. I can't imagine how you will ever feel clean again.