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December 10, 2008

Early this morning, Microsoft says it has launched a new open source blogging platform called Oxite. But the software giant was quick to point out that the new site is aimed at open source developers only, and it is not intended to directly compete with popular blogging platforms such as WordPress.

The blog, described as an alpha release, is available under the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL), one of Microsoft's OSI-certified open source licenses.

Users can create and edit a set of web pages on a site, add customized HTML and support multiple blogs on a single domain, Microsoft says.

Oxite is a standards-compliant, extensible CMS (content-management system) designed to support either blogs or larger websites. The blogging platform includes support for features such as pingbacks, trackbacks, anonymous or authenticated commenting and RSS feeds at any page level.

The blog for Mix Online was built using Oxite, and Microsoft is providing the Mix Online website code for developers to learn from. Mix Online is the online community centered on Microsoft's Mix web-developer conference.

Oxite isn't intended to challenge Microsoft's own SharePoint, which includes content-management-system capabilities, according to Oxite project coordinator Erik Porter.

"We have no current plans to make this anything but a really good open source developer project that could and should be able to run any website you want. That said, this is a community project and if the community decides to take it a different direction, we won't stop it," said Porter.

Source: Microsoft.

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