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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."
yes and I'm sure thats the reason why Microsoft couldn't compete... because millions of customers found that Microsoft's feature rich application was just too feature rich for their needs and had nothing to do with scalability or anything else. Keep that spin coming.
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Not popular enough to test scalability? Are you serious? They are migrating a couple million. You can test scalability with that easily. Wow, the spin keeps coming. Does Microsoft pay you by the excuse?
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thats not the point. You stated that Microsoft didn't have enough users to test scalability when they have 30 million. You can EASILY do scalability tests with those numbers. So they must have failed their own tests if you are saying that they had superior functionality. Care to spin again?
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