Microsoft killing many certifications

[armstrongsubero]

They are making the change because they are pushing Azure and the cloud. That's where the future is and frankly I think its a good change. The dinosaurs can keep their MCSE certs and support Server stuff and the rest of us move on with Azure.

I never liked MS stuff until .NET Core and Azure came along. Plus with the new unified .NET 5 coming along which is supposed to be seamless with Azure, it's a good move.

They're not the only ones doing this. Cisco also revamped CCNA and CCNP.

I think the role based certs are more suited to what goes on today, sure there will be legacy compnanies that need experts in Server and what not, but the future is Azure.

Also Blazor is coming up strong and holy smokes I'm switching everything to Blazor and Azure.

I like it, never been a better time to be a .NET developer. With C# 8, .NET Core, Blazor and Azure, I feel like Tony Stark and the solutions literally build themselves.

Microsoft know's what they are doing. I mean things were looking like they would fade into obscurity a few years ago as the PC market was dying and mobile was taking over. They literally bought themselves into the cloud pushing Azure so hard and moved to a mostly cloud services company. Now they are giving everyone a run for their money and growing everyday and I prefer Azure to AWS, I think Azure will beat AWS in the long run. Let's see where this goes.

As a side note C# is where it's at for business. Sure Python is fun to muck around with, but 2 years ago I got back into C# stuff and its unbelievable with a good text editor (vs code) and .net core, you can work magic!

It feels so wrong that this is so easy!

Anyway the industry is chaning and MS and Cisco are leading the pack.