Q&A: Why Microsoft surrendered 7 million blogs to WordPress.com

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Microsoft surprised many people in the tech community today when it announced plans to end work on its 6-year-old Windows Live Spaces blogging platform, helping its users migrate to the rival WordPress.com. More surprising: The arrangement comes with no financial compensation, no marketing agreements, and no commitments that WordPress.com use Windows Live ID or Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud-computing platform.

So why do it? More than ever, Windows Live is trying to focus on areas where it believes it's positioned to do something truly different. And after looking around, the team realized a blogging service wasn't one...

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