Nigerian Kids Become MCPs

Don t want to sound mean, but don t u guy think it might be a scam / cheat ... ? The word Nigerian put me on my toes.

Microsoft, Run. Run so fast because you are really in trouble. Run!!

Nigimbi?!! Run Microsoft you will lose credibility in a few days. Run faster. Run

Those kids now have to spend 10$ for real certificate. It was especially sad to read comments under "going green" about people in 3rd world countries that will end without certs for their hard work. 10$ in some countries is a lot of money. So far MS had lower prices for certs there. Even if those people have 10$ to pay for a paper they might do not have credit card. Take a look at those kids - looks like they have simple black and without printout only - prometric score(?). This will lead to more Linux and opensource use in such countries - that is the only one positive thing I find with your decision. Thank you Microsoft for promoting opensource solutions.

Me, don t you think it s a bit silly to say that having to pay for a Microsoft certificate is going to somehow swing the world open source? I don t know about where you work, but the operating platform that a company chooses for a specific application is based pretty much solely on what platform that application is supported on. Companies choose the applications that they want, and we implement the infrastructure to support them. If that means that I need servers running AIX, we have AIX servers. If most of our applications work well with Windows, we run Windows. Where I work now we run both, along with some AS/400 and a tiny bit of Linux. Companies, at least serious companies, do not choose their operating systems based on whether or not someone certified on that platform gets a paper or electronic copy of the certificate.

While I congratulate the students I do wonder what exam have they taken. I try to zoom the photograph but it wasn t clear enough read the exam no on the score report. Appreciate if Microsoft shares these information.

Umapathy: from the article, it sounds like they passed a Windows exam, but it doesn t say which one.

Anonymoose well you are right that applications are important. Preferences/knowledge of users and IT people, managers and sometimes politicians are even more important. This is slow process but it is happening now - kids in 3rd world/developing countries and China learn Linux. In 5 or 10 years from now it might be harder to find MS Environment IT Pro/Developer than Linux - I see plenty of young people around me that have deep knowledge about Linux and almost zero about Windows/MS solutions. I live in a country where Firefox has more market share than IE already. Windows still is a first desktop OS and will be for many years from now, but it is losing market share constantly. There were other people comments about change to Linux due to "going green" decision - yeah that sounds strange.