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.

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