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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. Too little, too late by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    The only people I know who still use Windows only use it for gaming. Otherwise, they either have a Mac or use Linux. On the server side, it's been Linux for more than a decade now.

    1. Re:Too little, too late by Eloking · · Score: 0, Troll

      The only people I know who still use Windows only use it for gaming. Otherwise, they either have a Mac or use Linux. On the server side, it's been Linux for more than a decade now.

      Hmm interesting. Let's look at the system of our SME.

      PCs : Windows 7 and 10
      File Server : Windows Server
      Database management system : Microsoft SQL Server
      Internal Web server : Microsoft SharePoint
      The drive OS of our Industrial Robot : Windows Embedded
      Their HMI : Look like Windows XP but I'm not sure
      The HMI of our industrial equipment : Look like an old Windows Embedded
      SMT : Windows XP and 7 (Not sure if embedded or not).

      I really tried to help you and find a single linux OS somewhere but all I was able to find was Android cellphone or Rasbian on some Raspberry Pi of our R&D department. I asked our IT guy (a firm Linux user) and there's nothing running on linux here. Oh yeah and our president is using a iPad.

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      Elok
  2. Re:Not your father's Microsoft by DeathElk · · Score: 1, Troll

    What the fuck am I reading? This is almost as surreal as that fuckhead gop campaigner Trump. Slashdot, Dice has taken you and fucked you up the ass. Now you're lying fetal in the corner, whimpering. Microsoft praise has no place on Slashdot. Has anybody heard that Midnight Oil song "Short Memory"? Microsoft is the company that tried to homogenise and pasteurise computing by embracing, extending and extinguishing alternate or competing technology. Slashdot was the place we would come to bitch and moan about it. No longer, it seems. Hmm, what's that taste in my mouth? Could it be... no, wait... NOOOOOO http://soylentnews.org/