That's The Thing,,,
With the amount of exams and certs increased, from the look of it, they do seem to be aiming for the Enterprise IT Admin with two to three fellows, and everything paid for (and time given for study) by the company. I just looked at this yesterday. My last certs were MCP for Windows 98 and Networking Essentials and an A+. A fact driven home when I went for a job interview a few months back when I realized just HOW long ago they were. Despite my 20+ years experience, the last few years as a Systems Administrator (my 'official' title, although I'm more of a 'do everything' person for our entire company. It's more a 'Network Administrator', but it would be 'IT Manager' if I had someone other than myself to manage!) the hiring board just sort of 'turned off' after that.
I just looked at this yesterday, and was confused as anything. Like the article says, where does someone like ME fit into all of this? Their 'Cloud' offerings? You can bet they're biased heavily towards Office 365 and their other offerings. I'll also need to pay for these, and find the time, myself. The last time I brought training up with the management, the response was, "Why? You can do anything we give to you to do!"
Guess, I'll start looking at CompTIA and elsewhere. Microsoft has lost the greater part of my interest...
