Tool Alert: NGA selects Microsoft's Virtual World over Google Maps

This is from the OSS.net people. I need to find out how to become a power user of Microsoft's Virtual World. "Microsoft appears to have scored a major coup over Google as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) adopts Virtual Earth as a foundation for information sharing with coalition and non-governmental organizations. With the move of a very key person from NGA to the DNI CIO staff, we anticipate that OSIS, by quickly adopting NGA's good initiatives, and expanding to the 90 nations supporting CENTCOM, will quickly become the platform for multinational,multiagency, multidisciplinary, multidomain information sharing (M4IS)." More importantly, what do you think?