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How Microsoft went from 30 million Windows Live bloggers to 300,000

39 points by jayeshsalvi 16y ago

jws 16y ago
Wordpress is adding somewhere in the order of zero servers to handle this capacity. – alleged email from anonymous microsoft executive.
- rbanffy 16y ago
  That is also mentioned on TC http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/30/leaked-internal-emails-show-microsoft-overstated-windows-live-spaces-numbers/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/30/leaked-internal-emails-show...
jemfinch 16y ago
Nothing about this article explains how it happened, only that it happened.
endtime 16y ago
This is a terrible article: * MSFT announced 7 million blogs, not 30 million. * The article seems to be trying to imply that Microsoft has screwed up the transfer and that 90% of their bloggers have left over it. But it sounds like the real story is just that MSFT left out that 6.7 of their 7 million blogs are dead in their initial announcement. * The stuff about Azure is a complete non sequitur.
- rbanffy 16y ago
  > * MSFT announced 7 million blogs, not 30 million. http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2010/09/27/wordpress-com-and-windows-live-partnering-together-and-providing-an-upgrade-for-30-million-windows-live-spaces-customers.aspx http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archiv... > * The stuff about Azure is a complete non sequitur. From (linked): http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Windows-Azure-opens-for-business-on-Jan-1-2010/1258479208 http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Windows-Azure-open... "Ozzie said that a few companies would take Azure into production starting today. With that as introduction, Ozzie announced that Automattic, creator of open-source WordPress blogging system, would be one of those companies" and, from TFA, "Automattic’s Paul Kim said that it has no plans to host the blogs on Azure." Also, from http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/30/leaked-internal-emails-show-microsoft-overstated-windows-live-spaces-numbers/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/30/leaked-internal-emails-show..., "Microsoft decision-makers debated about customers moving from Internet Information Server running on Windows Server to ngix running on Linux" and "I’m hoping for a second half to this story, where we’re hosting these WordPress sites on Azure…moving 20+ million to Linux seems like shooting ourselves in the foot"
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  - clark-kent 16y ago
    According to Matt (WordPress Creator) from http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2009/11/19/wordpress-and-windows-azure/ http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2009/11/19/wordpress-and... "What did you announce about WordPress at Microsoft PDC 09? As part of the introduction of the Windows Azure platform, we announced that self-hosted WordPress can be run in an Azure environment on an open source stack of Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Showing MySQL in particular at a Microsoft conference was unusual. Are you moving WordPress.com to Azure? No. WordPress.com, which is Automattic’s hosted blogging service, is going to stay on its existing infrastructure. Martin Cron from the Cheezburger Network launched a new blog Oddly Specific on Azure, which some people confused with Automattic. Do you use Azure at all? Yes, we’ve been testing out their blob storage as an alternative to Amazon S3 and Rackspace Cloudfiles. We don’t currently use it in production."
bprater 16y ago
So why did Microsoft's blogging platform never get the traction that Wordpress.com did? Any big obvious errors?
gorm 16y ago
It's WordPress Look, it is WordPress Notice the capital P It is CamelCased http://wpcamelcase.com/ http://wpcamelcase.com/
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39 points by jayeshsalvi 16y ago

jws 16y ago

Wordpress is adding somewhere in the order of zero servers to handle this capacity. – alleged email from anonymous microsoft executive.

rbanffy 16y ago
That is also mentioned on TC http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/30/leaked-internal-emails-show-microsoft-overstated-windows-live-spaces-numbers/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/30/leaked-internal-emails-show...

jemfinch 16y ago

Nothing about this article explains how it happened, only that it happened.

endtime 16y ago

This is a terrible article: * MSFT announced 7 million blogs, not 30 million. * The article seems to be trying to imply that Microsoft has screwed up the transfer and that 90% of their bloggers have left over it. But it sounds like the real story is just that MSFT left out that 6.7 of their 7 million blogs are dead in their initial announcement. * The stuff about Azure is a complete non sequitur.

rbanffy 16y ago
> * MSFT announced 7 million blogs, not 30 million. http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2010/09/27/wordpress-com-and-windows-live-partnering-together-and-providing-an-upgrade-for-30-million-windows-live-spaces-customers.aspx http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archiv... > * The stuff about Azure is a complete non sequitur. From (linked): http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Windows-Azure-opens-for-business-on-Jan-1-2010/1258479208 http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Windows-Azure-open... "Ozzie said that a few companies would take Azure into production starting today. With that as introduction, Ozzie announced that Automattic, creator of open-source WordPress blogging system, would be one of those companies" and, from TFA, "Automattic’s Paul Kim said that it has no plans to host the blogs on Azure." Also, from http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/30/leaked-internal-emails-show-microsoft-overstated-windows-live-spaces-numbers/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/30/leaked-internal-emails-show..., "Microsoft decision-makers debated about customers moving from Internet Information Server running on Windows Server to ngix running on Linux" and "I’m hoping for a second half to this story, where we’re hosting these WordPress sites on Azure…moving 20+ million to Linux seems like shooting ourselves in the foot"
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- clark-kent 16y ago
  According to Matt (WordPress Creator) from http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2009/11/19/wordpress-and-windows-azure/ http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2009/11/19/wordpress-and... "What did you announce about WordPress at Microsoft PDC 09? As part of the introduction of the Windows Azure platform, we announced that self-hosted WordPress can be run in an Azure environment on an open source stack of Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Showing MySQL in particular at a Microsoft conference was unusual. Are you moving WordPress.com to Azure? No. WordPress.com, which is Automattic’s hosted blogging service, is going to stay on its existing infrastructure. Martin Cron from the Cheezburger Network launched a new blog Oddly Specific on Azure, which some people confused with Automattic. Do you use Azure at all? Yes, we’ve been testing out their blob storage as an alternative to Amazon S3 and Rackspace Cloudfiles. We don’t currently use it in production."

bprater 16y ago

So why did Microsoft's blogging platform never get the traction that Wordpress.com did? Any big obvious errors?

gorm 16y ago

It's WordPress Look, it is WordPress Notice the capital P It is CamelCased http://wpcamelcase.com/ http://wpcamelcase.com/

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