Microsoft is shutting down <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Spaces">Windows Live Spaces</a>, their blogging and social networking site and giving 30 million users six months to migrate to a competing platform run by <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a>.

Hat tips to the article by Woody Leonhard at Windows Secrets <a href="http://windowssecrets.com/2010/10/07/02-Microsoft-bags-blogs-eviscerates-Live-Spaces/#story1">here</a> and the PC World FAQ found <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/206455/microsoft_live_spaces_moves_to_wordpress_an_faq.html">here</a>.