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Microsoft dumps its blogging platform
SOFTWARE GIANT Microsoft has given up on eating its own dogfood, at least when it comes to blogging.
The Vole has said that it will get rid of its Windows Life Spaces and replace them with blogs built using Wordpress instead.
According to the company's blog, the default blogging platform for Window Live Space users will be Wordpress.
Dharmesh Mehta, director of Windows Live product management said that Wordpress has a host of impressive capabilities ranging from a scalable platform and leading spam protection to great personalisation and customisation.
It is used on 8.5 per cent of the web and 26 million sites, he said. He added that it seemed pointless having Windows Live invest in a competing blogging service, when they might as well have great blogging software through Wordpress.com.
If only the Vole took the same attitude to Open Office.
The plan is to that Windows Live Spaces users will have the option to move their blogs to Wordpress.com. Microsoft and Wordpress have created an importer to copy Windows Live Spaces blogs to Wordpress.com.
New Windows Live users will also be offered a Wordpress.com blog. µ
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Microsoft will officially declare that it is replacing all Windows 2000 web servers with Linux servers, citing stability, scalability and security as major reasons for the switch.
A month later, Microsoft will announce "ending development on Office and related products, because we just can't figure what else we can bloat that whale with anymore".
In a final statement at the beginning of next year, Microsoft will declare the launch of MS Linux for Business, a forked version of the Debian distro modified to be able to use DirectX. In the same statement, Microsoft will declare that MS Linux for Business is the OS of the future because it can be installed and run perfectly "even on your ten-year-old PCs that are currently sleeping in deep storage because they weren't powerful enough for Windows 2000".
I think Windows XP is Microsoft's first nail in the coffin. Next were the Kins. Now this.
Eventually corporations will not see the benefit of upgrading to the next version of Office.
This is small but critical: they've at last admitted that their own software efforts are feeble. It comes after a number of hardware stumbles. As that understanding passes through the company, other areas will be looked at and seen to be lousy too. It'll probably stumble with Mobile 7. They can't really build on existing products because not reliable foundations and they're out of "new" features. Meanwhile, competitors improve. The trend will accelerate until one day a minor event causes collapse. Not soon enough to suit me, of course.