Windows Live Spaces Migration to WordPress

Image via CrunchBaseThere was something different on my wordpress.com dashboard (and all users of wordpress.com) today. At the top "News of WordPress.com" there is a surprising announcement, "Welcome Bloggers Windows Live Spaces." Well, what happened ...

Apparently, since today's Windows Live Spaces will be replaced by WordPress.com. "Rather than invest in Windows Live in the competitive service blog, we chose the best step we can do for consumers by giving them solutions best blog through WordPress.com," according to Microsoft's official statement, written Dharmesh Mehta, Director of Windows Live Product Management, in his official blog . This is the fruit of an agreement between Microsoft as the manager of Windows Live Spaces and Automattic, parent company of more or less WordPress.com will give impact as follows:

Users of Windows Live Spaces blog page when logging in will be offered for transfer / migration blog to WordPress.com. When the migration process is complete, users can announce the new address to friends via Live Messenger. Users who are not willing to switch to WordPress can choose to download all the contents to a computer or delete his blog. This transition process will be done within six months


To facilitate this transfer process, as the provider side of Automattic has made WordPress.com importer from Windows Live Spaces to WordPress.com. This has been confirmed by Paul Kim, Vice President of User Growth Automattic, the official blog

And for kedepannnya, if users of Windows Live Messenger plug in his account to the WordPress.com account that he had, when there are new posts there will be automatic notification of the existence of these postings to a feed of friends messenger

Additional too, when the Windows Live Essentials 2011, will be released this fall comes, Windows Live Writer will also use WordPress.com as its default blogging solution

The entry of Microsoft's blogging service users will increase market share WordPress.com. Currently, about 8.5 percent of the world's web platform uses WordPress. WordPress platform is used about 26 million web sites, while WordPress.com is used 250 million users.

Who would have thought the giant companies at Microsoft finally was unable to manage his blog service. Windows Live Spaces, which has been used about 30 million people worldwide were dipasrahkan to WordPress.com.

"Rather than invest in Windows Live in the competitive service blog, we chose the best step we can do for consumers by giving them solutions best blog through WordPress.com,"according to Microsoft's official statement, written Dharmesh Mehta, Director of Windows Live Product Management in his official blog. The deal between Microsoft and WordPress Techcrunch announced during the conference that was held in San Disrupt Francsisco Monday.

In the near future, users will update the page in Windows Live Space page will be confronted with the migration to WordPress. The User who is not willing to switch to WordPress can choose to download all the contents to a computer or delete his blog. This transition process will be done within six months.

"In a period of six months, starting today, Windows Live Spaces users will be asked to move her blog to WordPress.com," said Paul Kim in WordPress blogs. He added, it has provided a migration service that allows users to transfer all its contents to a new web address. Once successfully transferred, the User can announce the new address to friends via Live Messenger.

The entry of Microsoft's blogging service users will increase market share WordPress.com. Currently, about 8.5 percent of the world's web platform uses WordPress. WordPress platform is used about 26 million web sites while WordPress.com is used 250 million users.

Microsoft and WordPress.com has announced that WordPress will replace the Windows Live Spaces as a blogging platform for Windows Live.

"Rather than have a Windows Live in the competitive investment blogging service, we decided the best thing we can do for customers that provide solutions to major blogging through WordPress.com." Microsoft said in a blog post.

The company also pointed out that "the power of WordPress is more than 8.5 percent of the web, which used more than 26 million sites, and WordPress.com visited by more than 250 million people every month." WordPress himself said that Microsoft's move is "a strong sign that Wordpress.com", in their own blog post.

The partnership will allow customers to upgrade Windows Live Spaces to Wordpress WordPress.com and let users notify friends about the blog posts via Messenger.

Microsoft currently has 30 million people who use Windows Live Spaces blogging platform. Users can post their blogs, comment, and send photos to WordPress, and directs the Space long URLs into their new blog, Microsoft said. This is the latest move by Microsoft that allows users to access other services through the Microsoft platform, or replacing Microsoft's popular service with the service more widely used.

Microsoft recently closed about video-sharing site Soapbox, implicitly acknowledge the victory of YouTube, and enable Windows Live Movie Maker to post on Facebook or YouTube. Windows Live Photo Gallery also enables people to share photos directly to Facebook and Flickr as well as Windows Live.

Upcoming, users visiting Spacesnya account, they will see a command that asks them to update to WordPress.com. Those who do not want to switch to Wordpress blogs have the option to download them to your PC, remove their Spaces blog, or delay the upgrade of six months.

Those who started blogging today will be directed to WordPress.com, and Windows Live Essentials 2011 that will come will also be using Wordpress as a solution to bloggers, says Microsoft.

The move was announced on Techcrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, where the chief executive of WordPress, Toni Schneider, said "This is a unique advantage of web services, where one can move the user base and maintain their relationship."

Whether there is anything behind the decision. If the announcement does, Microsoft wants to provide upgraded services to its users to use to get a better blog platform. But it seemed too naive reason. The period of 'yes if only to improve services for Microsoft's corporate blogging just can not afford: P

Maybe Microsoft started to feel that Windows Live Space is not too much demand? Finally end up like similar services from Yahoo! namely Yahoo! 360 that have been closed first. But compared with Yahoo! decision that shut down without giving a place to move, Microsoft's decision to move all users to the WordPress blogging services can be spelled out better. But why so remember the same bus Metromini who like to move passengers in the middle of the road huh? : P

Or maybe Microsoft has a plan tersediri. Some even have a worrisome joining Microsoft as a company with software proprietarynya (closed-source) will slowly incorporate certain ideas into the WordPress blogging software that is open-source it.

So, it seems there are only two blogging platforms (leading), namely: ... WordPress and Blogger (Google)!

Microsoft and Automattic, parent company of WordPress.com announced that Windows Live Spaces blogging service will be replaced by WordPress.com. Users of these services can transfer their blog via the migration from today.

In his statement, Dharmesh Mehta, Director of Windows Live Product Management Microsoft said, in recent weeks, his party and Automattic have discussed about cooperation and integration on the internet.

"When we saw the need for user blogging and what is offered by various companies, we are interested in what is done WordPress.com," Mehta said, as quoted by Mashable, Tuesday, September 28, 2010.

For that, according to Mehta, than Windows Live invest to create a rival blogging service, Microsoft decided to bring them through the WordPress.com blogging solution.

"Starting today, users of Windows Live Spaces will have the option to switch their blogs to WordPress," said Paul Kim, Vice President of User Growth, Automattic, on its official blog. "To simplify, we make the importer from Windows Live Spaces to WordPress.com."

In addition, Kim said, users of Windows Live will be offered to create a blog in WordPress when they will create a new blog.

For information, WordPress.com currently accommodate 14 million blogs. If half of the 30 million blogs on Windows Live Spaces switch, it will be a very significant acquisition for users of WordPress.