Gates declares MSN Spaces has one million users
11 January 2005
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has reportedly claimed that MSN Spaces has "close to a million people".
The software boss also revealed in an interview with News.com that blogging tools will be integrated into the next versions of Outlook and Sharepoint.
The English speaking service launched recently, but the figures are believed to include those for the Japanese and South Korean services, which were launched earlier in 2004.
MSN Spaces is the company's new Blogging and RSS application for Microsoft MSN and a beta version was released in December. It is free and available in 14 languages and 26 markets worldwide.
MSN Spaces allows users to create their own personal space on the web, tied closely to MSN Messenger and Hotmail. Microsoft describes MSN Spaces as a dynamic online scrapbook where you can share photo albums, personal music playlists and other media.
Mr Gates has announced this week that he is giving up his directorship with drug developer Icos in order to spend more time working on the board of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
In the News.com interview, he also touched on Microsoft's plans for Xbox 2, claiming that the new platform would offer TV, photos and music functionality, as well as playing video games.
"We didn't do Xbox just to do a videogame," he explained. "We did it to be part of our vision of the digital lifestyle, and with the next generation, we really get to go there. In the first generation, we had one simple goal which was to establish credibility as a great video game platform. We've done that."
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