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Microsoft Offers Linux Certification. Yes, Really. (dice.com)

Posted by timothy on from the first-comes-the-embrace dept.

Nerval's Lobster writes: Former CEO Steve Ballmer once publicly referred to Linux as a 'cancer.' Not content to just let Ballmer blow up about it, company also spent a good deal of money and legal effort on claiming that open-source software violated its patents. A decade ago, the idea of Microsoft creating a Linux certification would have seemed like lunacy. But now that very thing has come to pass, (Dice link) with the Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) Linux on Azure certification, designed in conjunction with the Linux Foundation. Earning the Linux on Azure certification requires tech pros to pass Microsoft Exam 70-533 (Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions) as well as the Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) exam, which collectively require knowledge of Linux and Azure implementation. Microsoft evidently recognizes that open-source technology increasingly powers the cloud and mobile, and that it needs to play nice with the open-source community if it wants to survive and evolve.

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  1. Not your father's Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They're seemingly doing everything right, expect for Windows 10 spying. Heck, even their HW is good now (Remember Zune, Ballmer's brainchild?)

    1. Re:Not your father's Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      To be fair, their peripherals were always top notch and the zune got way more flak than it deserved.

  2. Untapped Market For MS by avandesande · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They could make a killing selling support for a Linux distribution . Lots of IT people are locked into Microsoft as a vendor and this would give them a good option.

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    1. Re:Untapped Market For MS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      There was an article a month or so ago that talked about a Linux distribution that MS has been using internally.

      This article, however, just irritates me. It's not an open source certification, it's an Azure certification.

  3. Increasingly? by DeathElk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Increasingly? INCREASINGLY?? Open source isn't "increasingly" powering Internet services, IT'S BEEN THE BENCHMARK SINCE DARPA. FFS, Microsoft was the cancer, trying to force proprietary standards down everyones throat.