I agree that I don't think an MCSE tells an employer anything, but I do think doing them is of some use to techies if only because sitting down and reading a study guide is a good way of learning about new features of the OS (even if you'll never use half of them). And once you've done that you might as well take the exam anyway, if only to get past the sort of filters a recruitment agent might put in your way.
Posts by Dazed and Bemused
6 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Dec 2011
Microsoft's MCSE and MCSD will become HARDER to win
SLAPPING an iPhone out of a corporate drone's hand: You're not the only one who longs to do it
Tuesday 3rd December 2013 23:14 GMT
Re: I *want* two phones - I do not want my company IT mess with my personal one
"Until a single phone is able to keep two wholly separated environments" - doesn't Blackberry 10 do that with Balance? And I probably find myself in the rather unusual position where I have a personal WP8 phone but am forced to use an iPhone 5s for work...
BlackBerry CEO: Tablets will be dead in 5 years
Wednesday 1st May 2013 00:21 GMT
Still, he may well have a point. Firstly, technology changes and five years is a long time. About as long ago as netbooks first appeared for instance, and they're no longer taking the market by storm either. Secondly, do you really need more than one 'intelligent' device? Keep your phone in your pocket connected wirelessly to whatever "dock" you want to connect it to; be it a dumb terminal tablet-style or laptop device, a TV or whatever. I think I'd rather like something like that.
Ten ancestors of the netbook
Monday 29th April 2013 19:58 GMT
NEC MobilePro
Having owned various flavours of Jornada (820, 680, 720, 728) and an EEE 701 all of which I liked, I still think my favourite mini-notebook type device was the NEC Mobilepro 900C - it managed the to marry the "quite small" and "usable keyboard" aspects with more success than anything else I've used.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
