Don’t forget to update your Spaces blog to WordPress.com – only two weeks left then *poof*

If you’ve been following Windows Live at all, you knew, like us, that there wasn’t much hope for Windows Live Spaces, and we were genuinely relieved when we found out that Windows Live had ... Read more »

Windows Live Spaces to close March 16th, remember?

The Windows Live Team sent out an email reminder today that Windows Live Spaces will be closing for good on March 16th.  The timing has been announced before, but it’s getting down to crunch ... Read more »

Half a million former Spaces bloggers now on WordPress (plus half a million more)

Microsoft unleashed quite a bombshell last September when it announced that it would be shutting down its blogging platform, Windows Live Spaces, and making a migration to open source WordPress.com available to anyone wanting ... Read more »

MSN China partners with Sina.com, resolves Spaces migration issue in China

While Microsoft announced back in September that they have partnered with WordPress.com to migrate all Windows Live Spaces over, those users in mainland China missed out – as WordPress is inaccessible in mainland China ... Read more »

Spaces, Live Mesh beta want to remind you that they’re toast

Windows Live enthusiasts received two separate but somewhat related emails this evening, one from Windows Live Spaces, “Changes coming to your Windows Live Space”, sets out the timeline for the demise of Spaces (and ... Read more »

Microsoft to shut down Spaces, migrate 30 million to WordPress.com

At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Microsoft’s Dharmesh Mehta just announced that Windows Live Spaces is going to be shut down.  In its place, Microsoft and Automattic have partnered to migrate some 30 million active ... Read more »

What’s up with Spaces: Evolving, or Dead Man Walking?

After what seems like years of silence over the status and fate of Windows Live Spaces, Senior Lead Program Manager Tony East blogged yesterday about the beleaguered blogging platform.  In “The Evolution of Windows ... Read more »

Spaces Team shuts down their blog (eh, what?)

From the News of the Weird Department, the team that makes the blogging software for Microsoft, Windows Live Spaces, has decided to shut down their, umm, blog.  Posts on The Space Craft and Windows ... Read more »

Changes to the Spaces header

Did you miss your Windows Live Navigation menu on Windows Live Spaces? Not anymore, the Team just posted the following: Today we’re making a change to Spaces that is a direct result of the ... Read more »

Virtual Earth 6.2 KML Support, Part 1

Overview KML (Keyhole Markup Language), an XML schema originally developed for Google Earth to describe shapes on a map has been supported by VE since version 6.0 was released and hasn’t changed much since VE 6.2.  The common questions this series ... Read more »