Windows Live Spaces, a blogging service provided by Microsoft is moving to one of the giant blogging resources, WordPress.com. The news was announced on September 27, 2010.
“Welcome Windows Live Spaces Bloggers!” greet Paul Kim, staff of Automattic, the provider of WordPress.com as posted in WordPress Blogs on September 27, 2010. Further he wrote that :
We’re excited to announce that WordPress.com is now the default blogging platform for Windows Live Spaces users. We’ve worked with our partners at Microsoft to create a simple migration service for Spaces bloggers to easily bring all their posts, comments, and photos to WordPress.com.
Over a six month period, beginning today, Windows Live Spaces users will have the option to move their blogs to WordPress.com. To make this possible, we’ve created a brand new importer for Windows Live Spaces to WordPress.com. New Windows Live users will also be offered a WordPress.com blog when they choose to create a new blog. Read further
Why is Live Spaces moving to WordPress.com ? Here is the answer from Windows Live Solution Center :
Many customers have asked us for a richer and more functional blogging experience. And like we’ve partnered with other services you know and love, we’ve now collaborated with one of the premier blogging services WordPress.com to deliver an exciting experience to you. This means that you can give your blogging experience a fast, easy, and free upgrade to WordPress.com. All of your posts, comments, and links will transfer and your friends will still be able to see updates from your posts in Messenger.
On WordPress.com, you’ll also find great themes and widgets to customize your experience, tools to help you track how your blog is doing and who’s visiting. You’ll get tagging that enables people to find you and for you to find like-minded people and some of the best comment and trackback spam prevention in the blogging world. Read further
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