Microsoft's blogging platform Windows Live Spaces is being decommissioned, and the users are being absorbed by Wordpress.com, Microsoft and Automattic Inc. announced on Monday.
Beginning today, Windows Live Spaces users have the option to automatically migrate their entire blog over to WordPress.com when they sign up to create a new WordPress blog, otherwise their content will be removed from Windows Live Spaces when it shuts down in six months.
If fewer people are blogging, as West said in June, then the partnership with WordPress is really a move to let the few people still using Live Spaces as a blog to have a powerful alternative. For users who are just content sharing, there are other Windows Live services for that.
Beginning today, Windows Live Spaces users have the option to automatically migrate their entire blog over to WordPress.com when they sign up to create a new WordPress blog, otherwise their content will be removed from Windows Live Spaces when it shuts down in six months.
If fewer people are blogging, as West said in June, then the partnership with WordPress is really a move to let the few people still using Live Spaces as a blog to have a powerful alternative. For users who are just content sharing, there are other Windows Live services for that.