Microsoft squeezes out Oxite 'open source' blogger platform

[cursal]

Microsoft has released alpha code for an "open source" blogging platform dubbed Oxite.

Redmond will be hoping the platform – which sounds like a spotty teen's best friend to us – will compete with the likes of market big boys Wordpress and Google’s Blogger.

But many will argue that now is an odd time for the firm to be developing its own blogging platform. However, Microsoft is on its somewhat kamikaze mission to become a force in the Web 2.0 world – whatever the cost.

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[Keynes]

Thanks for posting this. Any solid open source platform needs a large development community; I seriously doubt MS will attract a lot of open developers..

[James Jean]

It's a little too late in my opinion. MS is like the epitome of anti-opensource. I would never give them a chance and I'm sure a lot of people (that includes coders ) have similar sentiments.

[PokerPie]

they have to start somewhere. i'm sure they recognize they can't control everything forever, however they make billions and billions of dollars a year by controlling windows and office, so they are resistant to change.

i hope this is wildly successful and catches on, so they wont be so resistant to open sourcing other areas of their business.

who knows in 15-20 years they might actually join the crowd and open source windows. that would be the only way to save the business imo.

[cursal]

There is already speculation that the browser could/will become the new OS. As more and more of our information and utilities move to the "cloud" there is less need for the OS. Just think how much power a browser has these days with all its plugins. I love what FireFox and it's developer community has created. So many plugin-tools to help with working online.

I often get discourage when designing pages for the web because IE still is NOT in W3C compliance and I will inevitability use a i.e. hack to get things to look right.


Microsoft knows it better get something working online other than IE. It was looking at Yahoo....and may still again if AOL doesn't get them..

[hyped]

They supposedly released this more as a project for people to learn their new MVC framework. I'm a C# developer so i'm naturally interested in this sort of thing. I took a look briefly but have not really investigated it in any sort of detail.

I do agree that Microsoft has been the epitome of anti-open source, but doing things like Oxite are a great step in the right direction.

[cursal]

I do agree that Microsoft has been the epitome of anti-open source, but doing things like Oxite are a great step in the right direction.

My sediments exactly.

I hope a community develops around MS' attempt to be more open.

Every programmer I know has complained about the lack of open-source or compliance with MS in general. Now is the chance to dig in.

While it might appear to be "too late," I don't count the software giant out.
They are a cash heavy and well run company. And the Internet is brewing with innovations and entrepreneurs to help build out anything open-source if it fits their needs.

@hyped If you do proceed to investigate this further, please keep us apprised

[Jeffreyw]

It is based in ASP.net, it will not be wide as Wordpress since the latter is based in the more popular PHP.

[hyped]

It is based in ASP.net, it will not be wide as Wordpress since the latter is based in the more popular PHP.

That's obvious. It wasn't Microsoft's intention to overtake wordpress. Oxite was released as a learning tool for .NET MVC. Look at the very first page explaining what it is.

[rianvisser]

That's obvious. It wasn't Microsoft's intention to overtake wordpress. Oxite was released as a learning tool for .NET MVC. Look at the very first page explaining what it is.

Agreed.

I think it is going to be ineteresting...