OK that’s actually a rhetorical question. Isn’t it interesting though, the Mac Fanatics would follow Steve Jobs right of the edge of the Earth and the Linux/Open Source folks have the sound of a religious movement to a lot of what they say. But no such following for Big Bill and Microsoft. Kind of odd, actually. I mean, obviously a lot of people are using their products, but no one feels compelled to defend Microsoft or talk people in to using their products. They are simply the default software — what you get when you don’t do anything else.

And actually, what got me thinking about this is that I am an MCSE. So you would think that the MCSE’s would be big promoters of the Windows Servers and all. But we’re not. Microsoft doesn’t give us any special treatment. I’ve been back and forth with the MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) people about what my certification level should be. I get conflicting information, the resources published by Microsoft to explain what the requirements for certification are unclear at best and constantly changing. It is very frustrating. To tell it briefly, I thought I had taken enough test to a MCSE:Security but my transcript shows only MCSE 2003. I sent an email to them and they tell me that it will show up soon … be patient. When it doesn’t show up I email again. Now they say oh… you need to pass one more test. I don’t know what’s going on. When I look at the site for the certification it seems they are correct. So either the folks at the training center were just wrong on this or Microsoft has recently changed the requirements. Anyway… this is no way to build a loyal following for Microsoft. And we’ll see how it turns out, but I’ll be ticked if one of those tests was for nothing and I have to take another.