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Microsoft shifts Live Spaces blogs to WordPress
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 28 September 2010, 18:23 IST |
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Bangalore: Microsoft has collaborated with WordPress to provide blogging platform to the Windows Live Spaces users. Now WordPress will be the default blogging platform for Windows Live.
The partnership will allow Windows Live Spaces customers to upgrade to WordPress.com, let WordPress users notify friends about blog posts via Messenger, and let Windows Live users to create new blogs on WordPress.com.
Microsoft currently has 30 million people using its Windows Live Spaces blogging platform. Those users can port their blog posts, comments, and photos to WordPress, and redirect their old Spaces URLs to the new blog, Microsoft said.
Now, the people who start blogging on Windows Live Spaces will be directed to WordPress.com, and the upcoming Windows Live Essentials 2011 will also use WordPress as its default blogging solution, Microsoft said.