Software giant Microsoft is abandoning its native blog structure and will send all of its Windows Live users into a new deal with WordPress.
The company has said that those users who sign up for a Windows Live account will also receive free blogs from WordPress. The Windows Live Spaces will no longer be used.
Current Windows Live bloggers will be able to keep their blog until the end of the year. They have until March 2011 to switch platforms.
“There are 30 million people who are actively using Windows Live Spaces and have been eagerly awaiting the next set of new blogging features. For these customers, Windows Live and WordPress.com have worked together to build a simple way to move your blog posts, comments, and integrated photos right over to WordPress.com and start taking advantage of all their new features,” the company said.
“And we’ll also redirect all your old Spaces URLs to your new blog, so you don’t lose any visitors along the way.”
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