Category: Technology Author : Steven Hodson Posted: December 8, 2008
Tags : blogging platform, microsoft, Oxite
Now before you begin laughing your asses off at me take a deep breath and get your WordPress love back where it belongs. Calmed down? Good, now let’s get on with the info shall we.
According to Ed Bott Microsoft has entered the field of blogging platform software with it’s first generation release of Oxite. Of course folks will be quick to point out the fallacies of going with any first generation Microsoft anything. However this release of Oxite must be fairly stable since they are using it to power the MIX Online site.
From what I read on the Learn More About Oxite page the platform appears to be covering all the bases when it comes to a feature list. From being able to have seperate pages as well as your blog entries right up to supporting multi-author setups right out of the box.
Oh and did I mention – it’s open source.
As Ed said in his post this could be one to watch
Of course, the biggest strength of WordPress is the developer/user community that has grown around it. Because Oxite is open source, Microsoft can tap the expertise of its own enthusiast developer community. That should allow the platform to grow much more quickly than it would if releases depended on the small team at Microsoft that produced Oxite.
This one is worth watching.
You can also watch the video with the Oxite team over on the Channel9 site (requires Silverlight 2 installed)
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Dec 8, 2008
Looks interesting, but will in run on a Linux box? I've never owned Windows hosting.
Dec 8, 2008
Not a single word on the language used to make this thing. One thing's for sure, i will NEVER use ASP and other kind of stuff on a webserver, or desktop actually. NEVA.
Dec 8, 2008
Well, if you read WIRED's recent superlong interview with Ray Ozzie [ http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16... ], this shouldn't be a surprise.
I read that article a week ago, and came out of it with a few things:
a) I'm really really scared for what Microsoft might look like in 5 years
b) I'm really really inspired by Microsoft slowly turning itself around
c) I'm really really scared for what Microsoft might look like in 5 years
Announcements like this only make my mixed feelings worse.
Dec 8, 2008
no it won't AFAIK
Dec 8, 2008
ASP.NET and MVC is what I gathered from the video and info on the linked page
Dec 8, 2008
I can understand that fear Kyle
Dec 8, 2008
Especially since I'm a big fan of Linux in general, which is the current de facto enemy of Microsoft.
But if they manage to pull off half of what Ray Ozzie has envisioned…
We're going to be living in a world full of Microsoft products that are truly innovative and that WORK, and the company will be one that it's cool to like again, kind of like the pre-antitrust 90's.
–Kyle
Dec 8, 2008
I am admittedly a Microsoft fan; and a critic, and as much as I would like to believe what you feel about Microsoft's future coolness I don't believe it will happen until Ballmer is gone.
Dec 8, 2008
I would love to see an alternative to WordPress, it's a shame Google has neglected Blogger so bad.
Dec 8, 2008
Probably a non-starter since it requires Visual Studio (Express) to develop and most blog nerds are congenitally allergic to anything Microsoft. But I'll look into it for quickie enterprise blogs in my company. Anything that allows me to avoid Sharepoint is the shiz in my book.
Dec 8, 2008
This was definitely one of our goals for the project. We know that many independent web developers who are committed to web standards, are not always using MSFT stack as their first choice. Our main goal was to make it easy for you — if you have a customer or client who wants you to build on MSFT stack — to do it in a way that properly supports web standards. We even had Molly write an article you can print out to give to the client to explain why web standards are worth the investment: http://visitmix.com/Articles.
Dec 8, 2008
thanks for dropping by Joshua and adding to the conversation – appreciate it.
Dec 10, 2008
Microsoft has an 'enthusiast developer community'??
Developers, sure… I can stretch that word to cover them. But enthusiasts and community? That's the biggest everyman-is-an-island arena I've ever seen!
Dec 30, 2008
Bad columnist is bad columnist…