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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?)

  2. Year of the Linux desktop! by Spy+Handler · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I can imagine the day when Windows is built on top of Linux, similar to how MacOS is built on top of BSD. That will be the year of the Linux desktop!

    Maybe in 2020, Windows version 12.

  3. Re:Would *you* trust a MS Linux certification? by ClickOnThis · · Score: 5, Funny

    Welcome to your first Microsoft Linux Certification class. Today we're going to learn about the command line.

    The first command we will try is

    sudo rm -rf /

    Please try it now.

    Good job. The course is over. You are now all Certified.

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  4. Re:Untapped Market For MS by PCM2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    But if all you wanted was the Linux cert, you could just call the Linux Foundation and get that. So yes, it is really just an Azure cert bundled with (I assume) a discounted Linux Foundation cert.

    Makes sense. As I understand it, the vast majority of workloads on Azure are running Linux.

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