Microsoft recently released its alpha version of open source, standards compliant, and extensible content management system, Oxite that can run anything from blogs to big web sites. Currently, its not in a stable version and it is just for testing purposes. Oxite is targeted at developers who want to learn ASP.NET MVC. 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. Oxite includes the ability to create and edit an arbitrary set of pages on your site. The web-based editing and creation interface lets you put whatever HTML you want onto your pages, and the built-in authentication system means that only you will be able to edit them. Oxite shows that you can build a standards compliant website, starting with design and markup and realizing that vision into a web application using ASP.NET MVC. As far as the features goes it looks like a solid blogging system. But, only time can tell whether it will be a hit like WordPress or not?
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