You can't say you weren't warned - in September last year we told you how Microsoft was giving up on Live Spaces, its personal blog system.
Now though the final date is imminent: from Wednesday Microsoft will begin deleting the content too. Anyone who hasn't moved their blog over to Wordpress.com will never see it again.
At the time the move looked like a dramatic admission of defeat in a key cloud area by Microsoft, which had said that Spaces had 7m bloggers and 300m visitors. And it still looks like that.
There's no obvious sign however that huge numbers of Live Spaces bloggers have headed over to Wordpress.com; one would have thought that if all 7m had picked up their bags and headed over, then you'd be hearing Wordpress trumpeting it on its blog. No such, though.
Possible conclusion: tons of those 7m were spam, or dead, and either way Microsoft didn't want the hassle of maintaining them when it could better focus its cloud efforts on paying customers. It doesn't want or need to follow Google's AdSense model (which sells ads against page content); it wants to go after people who need cloud services and will pay for them.
However if you are a living breathing human being, have a Live Spaces blog (that you'd forgotten about) and want to move it to Wordpress.com, you can find out how at the Windows Live Spaces Help Centre.
