A few years ago I started blogging on Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces service. My topics ranged from mostly personal to technical and some political. About a year ago I deactivated my blog since Facebook seemed to meet my need to post personal related information. A couple days ago Microsoft announced that they were discontinuing their Live Spaces service. What was surprising to me is that they joined with WordPress to migrate all their users. Since I had been considering restarting my blog, I figured this was as good a time as any. However, in the future I will only use this venue to write about content technical in nature. I found that I would actually refer back to my old posts as a source of information.
I have completed the migration of my old posts and deleted all of the non-technical related ones. The WordPress interface is taking some getting used to, but I’m seeing some features that will be nice to use. I’m glad to see that Microsoft has already updated their Live Writer program to post directly to WordPress. Writing long posts in a web browser has never been fun. It also appears that WordPress has already updated their site for Internet Explorer 9 compatibility. I hope this ends up being a good relationship for both Microsoft and WordPress in the future.
