Microsoft shutters its craigslist competitor
InformationWeek | at | by Mike
Microsoft said Friday the company will on July 31 shut down Windows Live Expo, a two-year-old, online classified advertising site the software giant created to compete with Craigslist.com.
A notice on the Windows Live Expo site at http://expo.live.com informs visitors that the service will be discontinued at the end of July. Effective immediately, the site has quit accepting new accounts or listings, it said.
"All current listings will remain on expo.live.com until they expire," the notice said. "We thank you for your patronage and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause." Expo was one of several lesser known Windows Live services that Microsoft has shuttered recently. In late May, Microsoft said it would shut off its Windows Live Search Books service.