MSN Spaces Closing, Becomes WordPress.com

MSN Spaces Closing, Becomes WordPress.com:

Matt Mullenweg:

As just announced on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt, Windows Live (formerly MSN) Spaces is shutting down and migrating their 30m+ users to WordPress.com. Four years ago I was fairly worried as every internet giant (Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Google) had a hosted blogging service. Now only Blogger remains, and is firmly in our sights.

Blogger, no doubt, has the lion's share of everyday bloggers. But if I were Matt, I might be more...