Spaces is MSN's blogging and social networking platform. Since it's release last year, it has surpassed even the company's expectation in terms of success with over 30 million present blogs. Integrated IM and filterable viewing by buddy lists have given it an interactive edge over Yahoo's 360 and Google's Blogger offerings, even though the service can cost as much as $99USD/yr for premium hosting. Spaces mobile version  and software is also better than most as this review finds.

The new software now allows integration of photo albums, all formatted for mobile devices.  Sure, viewing details might be  a little awkward but at least the feature exists vs the older inline text links. A search function is also availabe allowing quick browsing of tags and keywords for easy navigation to private and public blogs and perhaps most importantly, easier navigation and an enhanced interface is finally surfacing as shown below:

* - top of page
2 - Comments
4 - Add comment
1 - Previous entry/page/photo
3 - Next entry/page/photo
6 - Archives
7 - Delete
9 - This Space's home
0 - MSN Spaces home
# - Jump to the navigation menu

WapReview (the article source) also mentions some of the faults with that package. Sure, there are viewing issues with some devices and the expected XML/Java errors, but overall they found this a great package - enough to offer Symbian and Palm a warning:

To me the single most significant feature of mobile Spaces is that every Spaces blog is automatically mobilized without the user having to do anything - a mobile site is created by default. I think that this is huge. It means 30 million more mobile sites and also that every user who has a Spaces blog now has the incentive to try out the mobile web - to check out their mobile site. Even more significantly it means that Microsoft is taking mobile very, very seriously....

Now it seems that history is about to repeat itself. Unless Symbian and Access/Palmsource start to compete much more aggressively in the handset market, the Redmond giant will soon be as dominant in mobile OS market as they are on the desktop.

Via WapReview