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Microsoft Migrating Live Spaces Users To WordPress

Posted by Soulskill on from the giving-up-the-ghost dept.

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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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first

  2. Re:Microsoft Is by Darkness404 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey, I'd rather have Flash than "Quick"Time.

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  3. Re:Windows Live Spaces? by DarkKnightRadick · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I saw you on Facebook.

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  4. Re:Gotta say, they picked a good one by jmanooch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Laughing.