I asked you a question (actually a number of them-but since you've answered none...)
I didn't know that here on TechSpot I had to
answer to anyone! So what, TechSpot now has turned into a vast array of tricky and cleaver web site that dabbles in the art of interrogation? If you did have these "so called" fiends of yours, who may have been at one time Microsoft Certified, if at any time you've ever lent them your ear to hear any of their Microsoft story's, one story should have been paramount from their lip's, the most important thing they would have said was that certified Microsoft Technicians, Engineers and Windows Based O.S. and Server Problem Solvers are not to give out technical data to the general public, as far as information technical specific to any up and coming Operating Systems, Software, or Server O.S.'s! I remembered the day I signed my Microsoft paperwork and that Microsoft Representative told me that during my testing of future software, O.S.'s included I was not hand out any technical data at all, I was also told that leaking and or presenting technical data to the general public was not the job of a Certified Microsoft Engineer. Our primary job and purpose is the testing of the "technicians version" of any software that Microsoft selects for us. Our job as Microsoft Engineers is not answer question from the public, our job is to only report our test finding directly to Microsoft. So due to making a promise to a Company that allows me to not only be certified with them, but to use that certification as well as in making myself money. So I'm sorry
dividedbyzero, to answer your questions would mean to break my vow to Microsoft, and I just don't see myself doing that any time soon. Plus, seeing that I wasn't going to post technical data within my post, I choose to exrecise my rights and speak for only myself, in a "peronally speaking" or "only speaking for myself" kind of a way.
-as opposed to "telling what you what to do", since I would personally never work for an entity that I don't respect. I couldn't reconcile trading hours of my life for cash from a company that I don't hold in high regard. To each their own
That's another thing about me you've got totally wrong here! Where in any of my 700+ post on TechSpot did I say anything in regards to being employed by Microsoft? So as far as working for a so called company that I don't respect, you don't have to worry yourself about this! A little secret here, I don't work nor am I directly employed by Microsoft, the little thing here,
I work for me!!!! I own and operating my own computer repair and networking support company, based right here, where I'm surrounded by all the creature comforts of my own home. You should see it, it's quite the operation, I had a professional work shed built just for my own company. A.C., heating, mini fridge, desktop, computer, workstations, 5.1 Dolby Prologic II sound system, TV... the works! I only have to walk a short 15 to 20 feet in order to be at work, now just how many people can say that....hmmm.....none that I know of. Oh if it's like anyone needs to know, but my company is doing alright for itself, even went as far as hiring a third on call employee, this guy might not wear the same fancy shinny "tin star" that I do, but he's COMP-TIA A+ Hardware and A+ Software Certified, that's good enough for me.
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BTW: I know a few people that have MS Accreditation, including two friends that I worked with when we wrote code/debugged and babysat Philips mainframes ~25 years ago. Their certification was somewhat easier to come by than my own subsequent City & Guilds Culinary Arts advanced dip. by their own acknowledgement.
Well I'm happy for your "so called" people you know of. I'm glad that becoming Microsoft Certified came so easy for them! It sure as heck didn't come so easy for me! Juggling getting my Microsoft Certification smack dab in the middle of getting my Novell Certification, both being done at the same time, on top of maintaining my grades while securing my 4 year Computer Science Degree. But I'm glad you have people you know that everything came real easy! And as for you
dividedbyzero I will say that I respect your position as a member of the Culinary Arts, be it what ever you are in a professional establishments kitchen, I respect that! My Brother as well secured some sort of Culinary Certification or Credential, he went to school for some where in Los Angeles. I know the personal hell he put himself through to secure for himself what he did, he admitted that it was hard and ultra demanding and just about made him crazy, but he made it! So in essence were not that much different! You use a knife and cooking spoon and grill and pots and pans to dish up good foods for your customers! Where I use volt meters, various software tools and apps, hardware implementations all to try and dish up some wonderful "good computing" to my clients!
Some have said here that what's the use of arguing about such a thing as a petty operating system, it's not that really worth it.
I'm willing to take the first step forward here and offer up an apology for any misunderstandings here! And I will tell you this, after Windows 8 is on the stores shelves and it is in it's "retail version", I'll open up to you with what I know, probably private message it to you, let you see what I see and what has been reported by the network of other Microsoft people I've been pooled with. I'll let you make up your mind and see if what I now know makes you just as uneasy as me.
You've got my word!
