Windows Live Spaces
Microsoft grew one of the world's largest blogging networks, then moved willing users to WordPress and deleted the Spaces that remained.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Officially Gone
- Peak stage
- general availability
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A formally released social blogging service launched as MSN Spaces and later renamed Windows Live Spaces.
Users published journals, photos, lists and guestbook messages inside profiles connected to Messenger contacts.
Existence timeline
Microsoft opens a social blogging network.
Spaces joins Microsoft's new consumer suite.
The service reports tens of millions of users.
WordPress.com migration is offered.
Unmigrated public blogs disappear.
Exports and web archives retain selected pages.
Why it ended
Microsoft closed the service in March 2011 after offering an opt-in migration to WordPress.com.
Last confirmed trace
Migrated blogs, archived pages, launch releases and personal exports preserve portions of the network.
What it left behind
Spaces shows how a mass social service can disappear while its owner transfers only users who actively move.
How we classified it
The archive unit reached normal public release or operation and is no longer obtainable in its original public form.
Verified normal public availability maps to 100 under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.