Microsoft has released an open-source blogging platform

Microsoft has released an alpha version of its open source content management system, Oxite. Source software under the Microsoft Public License. Although Microsoft Oxite described primarily as a platform for blogs, the team also Oxite, which can be used as a content management system for the development of a more or less any site. Mixing duties Oxite Internet, and Microsoft also uses a part of recycling channel 9

Some of the main features of the software to support Gravatars, pingbacks, trackbacks, RSS, comments and API MetaWebLog (for its customers favorite blogs to your blog directly Oxite).

ASP.NET
The main obstacle for many potential users, however, is that it Oxite ASP.NET applications, and most Linux hosting servers that are not ASP.NET. This, of course, makes sense, given the fact that Oxite well as a demonstration for the ASP.NET MVC framework, but make sure that disappointed many users.

Channel 9 short interview with the developers, describes some of the characteristics and history of software development.

Given the fact that Microsoft, Oxite mix used in its own website at the forefront of Oxite needs a stable and powerful platform, especially for sites with multiple blogs.

Nevertheless, it is certainly too early to say that Microsoft in competition with Wordpress, Typepad, Joomla or Drupal. Nevertheless, it appears that many of the missing items, are not even sure that it remains an extension Oxite architecture, third-party developers can build on. But nice to see Microsoft release of the project, open-source licenses, but at least partly selfish reasons.