Another reminder of why I hate MS

While poring over the Microsoft site trying to find a download of the seemingly no-longer-available LRN program, I ran across this:

Unable to verify the identity of www.microsoftelearning.com as a trusted site.

Possible reasons for this error:

- Your browser does not recognize the Certificate Authority that issued the site's certificate.
- The site's certificate is incomplete due to a server misconfiguration.
- You are connected to a site pretending to be www.microsoftelearning.com, possibly to obtain your confidential information.

Please notify the site's webmaster about this problem.Before accepting this certificate, you should examine this site's certificate carefully. Are you willing to to accept this certificate for the purpose of identifying the web site www.microsoftelearning.com?

Remind me again why open source isn't serious?

When will they ever LRN?

So, it seems that in version 6, non-enterprise mode, we can upload LRN modules.

LRN modules seem to be like SCORM, only less so (imagine!) and compiled by a proprietary Microsoft download. Said download promises to handle all the difficult content conversion, and guarantee IE-only access.

However: I still haven't found the promised LRN 3.0 download.

A search on the microsoft site doesn't help.

Any clues?

Wherefore and Why

So, after years of custom learning systems, I've been drafted into the world of Blackboard.

I'm not happy about it.

Buzzword compliance is not what it's made out to be.

Herewith, a diary of my hurdles... and hopefully my successes.