back to article Microsoft to axe Win 8 coder certificate exams

In six months Microsoft will cull some of its Windows app store developer qualifications. From September, Microsoft will no longer offer today's basic or advanced certification exams for developing Windows Store apps in C#, JavaScript, and HTML5. Out too are the recertification exams for Microsoft certified solutions …

  1. Kesomir

    Windows 8 App Store certs replaced by Windows 10 App Store certs...

    Looks like these are being replaced by UWP certification - just a case of moving from Windows 8 app store to windows 10 app store.

    The mew MCSD includes the C# Specialist 70-483 exam plus two new ones: 70-354 Universal Windows Platform – App Architecture and UX/UI and 70-355 Universal Windows Platform – App Data, Services and Coding Patterns

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/learning/mcsd-universal-windows-platform-certification.aspx

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    "principal psychometrician"

    Microsoft job titles: Plucked from the Dilbert zone?

    Or more rationally, maybe vocabulary is necessarily stilted when your company shoves its head up its corporate arse and has to mumble everything to avoid getting a mouthful of fresh, warm ordure?

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    Certified in passing Microsoft certification examinations.

    Reminds me oh so much of $cientology and their endless OT level certifications. Imagine studying to be a mechanic and having to get certified in wheels-and-cogs before you are qualified in gear-boxes (sub-certs for gears-1, gears-2, gears-3 etc) , then transmissions etc.

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    70-355, Certified, HTML5, JavaScript, MCSD , mew, SharePoint, UW, UX/UI ..

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