Discretion being the better part of valor, Microsoft has chosen not to engage in the blog-platform battle and will instead send the 30 million users of Windows Live Spaces on a mass migration to Automattic’s WordPress.com. If they all make the journey during the six-month transition, the partnership announced today will more than double the current WordPress user base of 26 million (this site among them).
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