If you are currently taking or thinking of going for MS certifications, this is big news. As of June 30, the MCSE, MCSA, & MCSD certification is being retired. The future is Azure
shameermulji
<blockquote><em><a href="#523938">In reply to jimchamplin:</a></em></blockquote><p>Not IF. This is true. There's so many people up in arms over this that there's an online petition to convince MS to delay this deadline.</p>
shameermulji
<blockquote><em><a href="#523947">In reply to ghostrider:</a></em></blockquote><p>Curious, what regrets do they have?</p>
dftf
<p>I've done some MCSAs previously, and some employers in the UK do ask for them — they are often requested for 2nd line roles, and sometimes 1st line roles can ask for them too (though CompTIA A+ and ITIL v3 were the most-common I'd see).</p><p><br></p><p>The last one I tried going for was the Windows 8 one, but as 8.1 was coming in, the exam featured new questions on new features specific to that and I recall I failed one of the two exams by something like 5-7 points, if I recall right. I know a few other colleagues who got screwed-over because of that too. Given the cost of a resit, and how poorly Windows 8.x was actually used in the enterprise, it didn't feel worthwhile resitting the one exam.</p><p><br></p><p>I never bothered looking into a Windows 10 MCSA as given how frequently they change things in it I couldn't see the point… how could you guarantee what version the exam would be based on? I'd hate to fail due to having picked a wrong answer on whether you find something in the Settings app or Control Panel, for example. Who can remember in exactly which version specific things moved?</p><p><br></p><p>Outside of the Windows world, I can't recall I've ever seen a single job advert in my life asking for the "<em>Apple Certified Support Professional" </em>certification<em>…</em></p>