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New blogging and content management software from Microsoft: Oxite

Dec 9, 2008 by Mircea GoiacloseAuthor: Mircea Goia Name: Mircea Goia
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Today Microsoft entered in competition with Wordpress (or, at least, that what it seems).
Wordpress  is a blogging software and is considered also a content management system (especially with the help of various plugins). It is very used in the blogging world (another competitor is Movable Type) and not only.

Now Microsoft wants a piece of this market (is there a market Microsoft doesn’t want a piece? Rumours has it that it also wants a piece from the smart mobile terminals where the iPhone is king).Microsoft released today a blogging and content management software called Oxite. It is, yes, open source and in alpha version (according to ReadWriteWeb).

Oxite has some features other blogging software has:

# RSS feeds
# Anonymous and authenticated commenting along with optional moderation
# Pingbacks, trackbacks
# Gravatar support (global avatars)
# Web Admin Panel
# Supports Open Search format
# Search friendly URLs
# Supports the MetaWebLog API
# Create any number of web pages for any purpose
# Create sub-pages off a main page
# Localization

Because it is still in alpha version it’s not for begginers but merely for developers who wants to mess with the code. The code is, of course, based on ASP.NET Model View Controller which could limit its spreading (many standard hosts are running Linux and ASP.NET is not running on it, unless a special software comes to help, like The Mono Project  – which not many hosting companies are using on production servers).

Microsoft’s Channel 9  on MSDN has an interview with the developers where they describe some of Oxite features (you have to install Silverlight to watch the interview).

Let’s see how and where this goes.

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Tags: asp.net, blog software, cms, content management system, microsoft, Movable Type, oxite, wordpress

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