It looks like Microsoft has started taking websites 
and blogs seriously. It today released an early version of Oxite, which is an Open Source Content Management System (CMS). It is believed to be able to power any form of websites (blogs and large websites)
The all new Microsoft Oxite is very similar to Wordpress and Blogger in the terms of features and is expected to turn out as a good blogging platform. It will support RSS feeds, trackbacks, clean URLs, Comment moderation, group blogging and many other features.
Oxite is in its early phases and is not targeted mainly at developers who need to create CMS applications using the Microsoft Platform.
Microsoft said this about Oxite.
“Oxite provides you with a strong foundation you can build upon – pingbacks, trackbacks, anonymous or authenticated commenting (with optional moderation), gravatar support, RSS feeds at any page level, support for MetaWebLog API (think Windows Live Writer integration made easy), web admin panel, support for Open Search format allowing users to search your site using their browser’s search box, and more – so, you can spend time on designing a great experience.”
It is highly doubtful that Oxite will be able to snatch any of the blogging market shares from Wordpress. Oxite requires ASP.NET MVC and SQL server (2005 or 2008 for optimized performance) and therefore a Windows hosting is a must for operating any website on this platform. Wordpress works on cheap Linux based webhosting, which is also one of the reasons behind its huge success.
For most part the Oxite is quite very complex for end users like us but if you are planning to CMS from the scratch it would be worthwhile considering Oxite as an option.
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