You know this is not an April Fool’s Joke because we’re in the next to last month of the year. Microsoft has admited defeat in the blogging applications war by switching over users of Windows Live Spaces to the mostly free hosted WordPress.com site. Who would have ever thought that Microsoft with their billions in R&D would be moving their users over to a company (and platform) which has a fraction of their revenues. So WordPress.com now has 900k blog sites versus 400k from last month. Read the article at TechCrunch for the full details.