Oxite, another open-source blogging platform from Microsoft

Microsoft launched Oxite, another open-source blogging platform on December 8th. However, they anounced quickly that the product is not aimed to compete with popular blogging software such as WordPress, etc.

Microsoft posted the Oxite code on its CodePlex Web site made an official announcement. The software is available under the Microsoft Public License, one of Microsoft's OSI-certified open-source licenses. Oxite is a standards-compliant, extensible content management system designed to support either blogs or larger Web sites; the platform includes support for features such as pingbacks, trackbacks, anonymous or authenticated commenting, gravatars (globally recognized avatars), and RSS feeds at any page level, Microsoft said. 

Users can create and edit a set of pages on a site, add customized HTML into pages, and support multiple blogs on a single site. Oxite is also able to integrate with Microsoft developer software such as ASP.Net MVC, Visual Studio Team Suite, and Background Services Architecture. The project began as a way of demonstrating the capabilities of ASP.Net MVC to developers as announced.

The Web site for Mix Online was built using Oxite, and Microsoft is providing the Mix Online Web site code for developers to learn from. Mix Online is the online community centered on Microsoft's Mix Web developer conference. Oxite project coordinator Erik Porter mentioned: Oxite is not a direct competitor to existing, established blogging systems, nor is it intended to challenge Microsoft's own SharePoint, which includes content-management-system capabilities. The software is intended for developers but could eventually be made suitable for the general public. "We have no plans to make this anything but a really good developer sample that should be able to run any site you want," he wrote. "That said, this is a community project now and, if the community decides to take it a different direction, we won't stop it." 

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