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5月25日

There have been a lot of comments on The Spacecraft about the upcoming Spaces URL changes. Here is some insight into why this is happening.

Spaces has grown very quickly into one of the Web’s mega services. So quickly in fact that we just passed the 100MM user mark and have had to do some architectural changes to ensure that Spaces can be deployed in multiple data centers. We needed to deliver a system that allows for Spaces to be distributed across multiple data centers without requiring a URL that included the data center name. How unkewl would that be? Can you imagine telling your friends and family that the URL to your space was http://cluster25.dc1.spaces.msn.com/gphipps?

So we have developed a DNS (Domain Name System) based solution that allows us to redirect requests to the right data center and allows us to keep a better looking URL. Moving the Space name into the domain name is a requirement of that.

We also heard the pain we created for our users with the URL change made in our release in January and to help mitigate this upcoming name change we have worked with the following companies to proactively address the associated ranking issues:

Technorati
Weblogs
Feedster
PubSub.com
Bloglines
Ask.com

In addition, we have dialogs with the following search engine companies

Live Search
Yahoo
Google

I can’t promise that this will be a completely seamless transition; but rest assured we are working hard to make this as seamless as possible.

Doing the rearchitecture work and making the move to Live Spaces was not possible for a number of technical reasons. This is why we can’t move straight to the spaces.live.com name. However, we believe that when we do move to Live Spaces that will be the last time we have to change the URL. This isn’t something we decided to do lightly. We have had to make a ton of tradeoffs from both a technical perspective and the impact to our users.

Thanks for making Spaces your home. We do care what you think and we are listenting.

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	salvatore (Io)发表: sce t piac o cazz tt ind o ftill 10 月 27 日
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	任平生发表: Hello from China ! Good weekend for you~~! 10 月 6 日
	Patrizia发表: Good day a smile Liu Jo 9 月 5 日
	Peter发表: Thanks you for reading, Jason Antonelli clarified the dynsrc problem for me. http://jasona.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!FDEA5052F4C41DF2!968.entry 8 月 7 日
	Peter发表: Hi Greg, Let me start off by thanking you for the big improvements that were made with the upgrade from MSN Spaces to Live! Spaces. The layout is great, it's finally been adapted for 1024 width. A question I have though is why you are now filtering out the <IMG start=mouseover dynsrc=xxx> trick that we've been using untill now in order to be able to do Video-Blogging? With the ever-increasing speed of internet-access world-wide, video-blogging is becomming more and more commonplace. However, new Live!Spaces has not been Enhanced in order to be able to do Video-blogging, instead the only TRICK that worked is now being filtered out!!! Please could you perhaps explain why it was decided to discontiue support for the HTML mentioned above? 8 月 6 日
	NAPLESROBERT发表: Corrected Good entry. Can't wait for the new release. Sounds like we will have at least one new theme. Glad to see Friends is finally making it. How about customized Backgrounds? More room in the Sandbox & multiple sandboxes. A real guest book and guest map. In depth statistics. A clock to show local time. Site search. Oh yes and a spelling and grammar checker would be great along with the ability to edit our own comments. Live.com--any chance of allowing our page as a public site? Would almost be like Windows Live Spaces on steroids. 7 月 17 日
	NAPLESROBERT发表: Can't wait for the new release. Sounds like we will have at least one new theme. Glad to see Friends is finally making it. How about customized Backgrounds? More room in the Sandbox & multiple sandboxes. A real guest book and guest map. In depth statistics. A clock to show local time. Site search. Oh yes and a spelling and grammar checker would be great along with the ability to our own comments. Live.com--any chance of allowing our page as a public site? Would almost be like Windows Live Spaces on steroids. 7 月 17 日
	GJenne发表: How can I get help on using the Windows Media Player? I am hosting a video on myFileHut.com. However, when I put the name in the URL it won't save and the video won't play. Please email me. Thank you. 7 月 14 日
	Graziano发表: Hello Greg, will the change of the Blog be foreseen in how many months in Windows Live Space? Changing the risk structures graphics, that we lose the work done by us or this risk does not exist? Thanks 6 月 26 日
	PhippsGreg发表: No worries Marcelino. We had planned to turn on the market well before your comment spam campaign. 6 月 22 日
	没有名字发表: Thanks for friend´s beta module. I am happy. Good job Spaces´s Team. 6 月 22 日
	. 发表: Estimados señores de Microsoft: Como usuario hispano-hablante de MSN Spaces me dirijo a ustedes con el objeto de mostrar mi enfado y desacuerdo por el tratamiento que se está dando a los usuarios de MSN Spaces en España y latinoamerica. Los usuarios de paises hispano-hablantes nos sentimos abandonados y menospreciados por los cambios que unilateralmente han decidido introducir en MSN Spaces y cómo se han realizado esas operaciones: • No han informado correctamente de las fechas en que se iban a producir dichos cambios creando confusión entre los usuarios de todo el mundo. • No han tenido en cuenta los problemas que se producen día a día para los bloggers de Spaces sin ponerles solución y que los hispano-hablantes llevamos reivindicando desde largo tiempo atrás, como la facilidad de suplantar la identidad de cualquier comentarista en Spaces y el mal uso que se le da a esta debilidad para insultar, dañar, incordiar, etc., etc., a un usuario de su sistema. (Y lo pongo como ejemplo, porque la solución es muy sencilla y está de su mano, publicar la cuenta de passport con la que se hacen los comentarios). Otro ejemplo sería el continuo cambio de Urls en los Spaces sin tener en cuenta el resultado negativo que conlleva en los buscadores para los bloggers, tanto noveles como profesionales, que han decidido hacer de MSN Spaces su herramienta de comunicación. • Se han introducido mejoras y actualizaciones que ni siquiera están disponibles para los usuarios de MSN Spaces en países hispano-hablantes como módulos de Favoritos, la red social, la conexión con Amazón, publicidad en los blogs, etc., etc... Algunos de los cuales se han producido hace bastante tiempo y que nosotros SEGUIMOS SIN DISFRUTAR. • Y por si esto fuera poco continúan con su desprecio y dejadez lanzando nuevas actualizaciones cuando en estos países no hemos empezado siquiera a disfrutar de las anteriores. La imagen de provisionalidad de su trabajo empaña su éxito como plataforma. Muchos de los bugs (álbum de fotos, por ejemplo), deberían ser comprobados antes. ¿No han pensado extender un programa de Betas en Spaces? Está bien que introduzcan cosas tan útiles como el poder saber el tiempo que hará en Redmon, o en Londres, pero ¿No hubiera sido mejor dar acceso de una vez a servicios tan populares en Internet como youtube? Con su actualización yo no puedo ver el pronostico del tiempo tan fácilmente como un usuario de UK pero al menos me hubiera divertido viendo vídeos en mi space. No los quiero cansar, que lo estarán mucho, pero si me gustaría saber, y creo que deben explicar a que se debe todo esto. La discriminación del servicio que ofrecen a nivel mundial, por el hecho de donde resides, o que lengua hablas solo tiene un calificativo. Entiendo que tendrán sus razones y por eso les pido que las publiquen, para entenderlas. Siendo actualmente la plataforma de blogs más grande a nivel mundial deberían reflexionar sobre a qué es debido ese éxito. Muy probablemente lleguen a la conclusión de que la única razón son sus usuarios. Dear Microsoft crew, As a spanish-speaking MSN Spaces user it's my intention to address this letter to you in order to show my anger and disagreement on the way Spain and latin-american MSN Spaces users are being treated. Us, spanish-speaking countries' users , feel neglected due to the changes you have decided to introduce to MSN Spaces. That's not only due to the fact that we were not asked to voice our opinions about them but also because of the way they were deployed: * Lack of accurate information of changing dates. That created confusion on users all over the world. * Putting aside everyday-issues Spaces bloggers face that are yet to be solved: spanish-speaking users have been complaining long and wide already about issues like impersonating any Spaces comment. This is serious due to the fact that it can be used to insult, harass, damage, etc. any system user (this example is just one of many examples on which solution is simple and straightforward: publish the passport account from which comments are made). Another example would be the continued URLs changes in Spaces. We assume you know such action's effects on search engines both for rookies and pro bloggers that have decided to use MSN Spaces their communication tool. * Upgrades and patches introduced are mostly unavailable for spanish-speaking MSN Spaces users. We are talking about Bookmark, Amazon, Social Network modules, etc. Some have been introduced a long time ago and we have yet to be able to test. * What's more, you continue to show despise and neglect launching new upgrades when our countries have not been able to test or try out previous ones yet. The brief timespan your work lasts without changes shadows your success as a trustworthy platform. Many bugs should be tested before deployment (photo album bug just to name one). Have you thought about Beta Spaces testers program? We agree on you introducing useful stuff like Redmond or London weather forecasts. Wouldn't it had been better to allow access to popular on-line services (as YouTube) though? With your update we can not check the weather as easily as a UK user; but at least we would have have videos to watch on Spaces in the meantime. It's not our intention to harrass you or attack you in any way. We appreciate you reading up to this point (if you got to this point) and would like - and feel we deserve - an explanation about what's going on. This constraints on services offered, dependent on the place you live or language you speak is normally known as discrimination. We understand you may have reasons for all existent issues we are experiencing and we are eager to read them. Just publish them so that we can understand. As one of the world-wide leading publishing platforms nowadays we suggest you stopping to think what's making you so. If you think the way we do, you'll conclude it's because of all of us: your users. *NO ES SPAM SOLO UNA PROTESTA DE GENTE QUE TIENE LOS MISMOS DERECHOS* 6 月 20 日
	没有名字发表: Por favor una cosa es protestar y otra aprovecharse para hacer lo que uno quiera. Ser educados. 6 月 19 日
	COWARTJOE发表: Thank You for visiting my space I am delighted that you came by. Please let me know what you think about my site and what I could do to keep it more to it's Title. Joseph Cowart 6 月 15 日
	FRESCO 发表: ¿Becose dont running spaces live in Spain?.Only have for american countries :( .A never people like. 6 月 15 日
	COWARTJOE发表: when are you all going to change the spaces address, do you know a date yet? 6 月 9 日
	Jonatan Alexis发表: very good your spacio good Sir happened and luck left a company/signature you hopefully you put some tricks for space-- a friend of Peru Lima Thanks 6 月 9 日
	NAPLESROBERT发表: Will all the links will still work? What about the links to aggregators, RSS feeds, MSN Alerts, pingers, page translaters? Will Spaces be making those changes or will each owner? What will be our new XLM or RSS feed URL? 6 月 8 日
	kendircimurat发表: SELAMMMMMM MİLLET 6 月 7 日