Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Microsoft to Close Its Blogging Platform-Migrates Users to WordPress.com - NYTimes.com

The end of the road for Windows Live Spaces

It's interesting that Microsoft has basically given up on hosting its own blogging platform, but this move fits into the bigger picture of the company's plans for the Live.com platform. We hinted at this last week when Microsoft announced its partnership with LinkedIn. As Microsoft's director of product management for Windows Live Dharmesh Mehta told us last week, the company aims to integrate the best products instead of reinventing them. As Mehta notes in a blog post today, rather than invest in a competing blogging platform, Microsoft decided "the best thing we could do for our customers was to give them a great blogging solution through WordPress.com."

Microsoft to Close Its Blogging Platform-Migrates Users to WordPress.com - NYTimes.com

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