[Marketing] Competitive Landscape: Microsoft's EducationLabs.com, GPL'd Moodle plugin

[Sean DALY]

http://www.educationlabs.com
http://port25.technet.com/archive/2009/07/21/the-live-services-plug-in-for-moodle-debuts.aspx
http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/default.aspx
http://blog.mudrak.name/2009/07/thats-one-small-plug-in-for-moodle-one-giant-leap-for-microsoft/
http://thejournal.com/articles/2009/07/21/moodle-links-with-live-edu.aspx
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/168783/microsoft_makes_second_gplv2_release_in_as_many_days.html

Microsoft follows yesterday's GPLv2 submission to the Linux kernel
with a GPLv2 release of a Moodle plugin (Microsoft Live),
acknowledging the primacy of the Moodle CMS.

This is a new team for education and they apparently wish to to adopt
rapid development cycles and work with open source developers. The new
site seems to be meant for engagement with educators and not product
marketing; "incubation prototype projects".

There is a Flash video, but it is apparently quite large and heavy, I
couldn't view it on my aged Mac on broadband (YouTube works fine).
Other videos are in Microsoft's proprietary format and MPEG-4.