Microsoft lets devs with form skip MCSD exam Microsoft's made it official: if you can code an app for Windows, you can skip some certification exams. Redmond gave this idea a try last year with a program called Review to Cert that made having an app certified for the Windows Store one way to score part of a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD) certification. …
Totally ... I mean, how low can you go ...
Up next, a free blow job for each dev who manages to produce an app that gets published.
What will this entail ? Another great number of unqualified, yet certified, Microsoft Certified Surface Specialists. I will tell our office cleaner, I am sure he stands a fair a chance.
Imagine, all the trojan, browser toolbar, clock.exe devs becoming MCSD ? hilarious.
When The Reg covers certifications, comments nearly always argue that vendors' accreditations aren't very valuable because they don't reflect real world experience or proven capabilities. App to Cert goes some way towards addressing that criticism. Or does it?
The answer to your question is quite simple, assuming we're still talking in terms of commentard opinions. That answer is "this would be an amazing genius piece of absolute brilliance that solves everything if it were Google doing it but it's Microsoft so it sucks and is evil".
See above.
"... if it were Google doing it but it's Microsoft so it sucks and is evil"
Why do people say stuff like that when Microsoft screw up and are being rightfully mocked? This has nothing to do with Google, why mention that company? As soon as you do that, you label yourself, yet again, as a adolescent fanboy and I don't really care how much you love your favourite company and that their enemies are your enemies.
I've grown tired of the poor quality of comments on here - you're no longer entertaining me.
The vast majority of what you pass exams on at school is irrelevant (and often not the truth or out of date, but that's a separate issue).
The vast majority of what you pass exams on at University is irrelevant.
Tha vast majority of what you pass exams on with a vendor is irrelevant to the day to day bread and butter of the job.
But in each you've proven you can read boring shit relevant to a subject and remember some of it at a later time. And this might be the differentiator between two people who claim to be rocket scientists. Once you've worked at NASA for 3 years and proven you know your shit your next NASA job is granted by who you know, not what you know. If can't prove you know somebody or something, then to your next potential employer you're shit.
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