Summary: What appears to be splogs from Microsoft's retired service gradually approach the cliff, whereas half a million blogs of Windows Live move from Windows and proprietary software to WordPress on GNU/Linux

EARLIER this year we wrote about users of Windows Live Spaces being transferred to Free/libre software and GNU/Linux in another company [1, 2, 3]. Microsoft does not like facts, so it bragged about having 30 million blogs in there. Well, Wilcox alleged that the vast majority of blogs were spam (or splogs) and he was right. "WordPress.com Gains 500,000 Users From Microsoft Windows Live Spaces", says this report:

Microsoft has partnered with Automattic for the migration of the approximately 1 million Spaces users into WordPress.com. As of end November, Microsoft and Automattic report that about 500,000 Spaces users have been moved to WordPress.com.

Expect more Microsoft services to be cancelled, such as the example from our previous post. Sometimes there is not even a migration/escape route, which makes being a Microsoft customer very risky nowadays. ⬆