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This change is a hard sell for me and seems short-sighted for the sake of possibly pushing people to Azure. I wish someone would invent a website where you could, like enter a search term, and it somehow, magically probably, returns a page of matching results, from previously trawling and cataloguing lots of web sites. Probably never take off. NET developer such as myself able to certify with Microsoft? All vendors have been retiring certs and pushing out new versions of them for awhile so the cert you earn is only temporary so not new.

What makes me mad about this is they announce the retiring of these certs a mere four months in advance. Better give up any other aspect of your life and rush to take the exams!!! What if you actually have obligations outside of your job and little time?

Not everyone in IT goes home and does nothing but play video games. I have a child with special needs and a spouse with a mental health diagnosis, in addition to a full-time job.

How much time do you think I have to study? The answer is none. Trying to push professionals to adopt cloud technology too fast is a disaster waiting to happen.

The truth is that full cloud is still too costly,. Nice job announcing retirement of three exams I passed without publishing details on what they replace. This is really short notice. I am a father of twins with a full-time job so doing all of this in the next few months is a big ask. How can Microsoft make such a massive decision without giving learners an appropriate timeframe to respond in? Surely they need to give some kind of extension, at least on writing exams.

A lot of these courses that have and will be shut down cater to individual and small business needs, whats it supports going to look like for home users in 5 years with these programs no longer being available, sure Microsoft will have great business solutions but if it wants to maintain a stronghold in the consumer market they cant keep axing the programs that give their customers home service unless they are no longer interested in the average user.

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