Three months ago, Microsoft announced that it was discontinuing Windows Live Spaces, their free blogging and social networking service. Live Spaces simply didn’t have the functionality of its competitors, and Microsoft decided it wasn’t worth the trouble to create yet another blogging platform.
Microsoft reports that since the end of November, they have helped Live Spaces users convert over half a million blogs to WordPress.com, the free service provided by Automattic, the company started by Matt Mullenweg, the original developer of the WordPress blogging and CMS software (which this blog uses).