LiveSide says Windows Live Spaces is Live! This is the upgraded MSN Spaces personal blogging service, now with the Windows Live brand. We mentioned some pertinent features back in June when it had been rumored to be coming in mid-July. Check it out for yourself at http://spaces.live.com/. I wonder what kind of marketing it will get?
August 2nd, 2006 at 12:43 PM
[...] When Windows Live Spaces launched last night, I was curious to see what kind of marketing Microsoft put behind it since I was commenting just a week ago (after the “stealth” launch of Windows Live Toolbar) that you couldn’t prove that Windows Live was particularly important to Microsoft based on the minimal marketing attention they seemed to be devoting to it. Well the good news is that Windows Live Spaces merited a press release that was picked up widely in the press and that Microsoft marketing took the opportunity to boost the whole brand: Microsoft Continues to Deliver on Windows Live Strategy [...]