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Originally Posted by VAXman
What a waste of human endeavor! If there is an after-life, you should be tormented eternal for wasting the precious few hours we are granted here in this life!
I looked up A+ certification and Wiki says:
The A+ certification demonstrates competency as a computer technician. CompTIA A+ certification is a vendor neutral certification.
Vendor neutral my ass! I found the practice exam questions on-line and the questions are anything BUT vendor neutral!!! They're quite vendor specific! ...wanna take a stab at what specific vendor?
I took the OS portion of the exam and there wasn't a single question about an OS; only Weendoze.
I perused several of the network and security exam questions as well. Way too M$ specific to be of any real use. The hardware exam was also brain-damaged IBM PeeCee BIOS specific.
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For as smart as you are, I'm surprised how badly you totally missed the point here. Let's say for the sake of argument, that MS is as bad, or even worse, then you say. If a person wanted to make a living FIXING computer problems, which would you rather train in?: Microsoft, which is approximately 80% of the fielded computers in the world; inherently inferior and bug ridden; used by morons (I'm paraphrasing you). Or, Mac/Unix/VMS which is (optimistically) used on 20% of the computers in the world, is so fucking superior that it virtually never fails, and when it does, the users are smart enough to fix the problem themselves?
I think Dale has made an EXCELLENT business decision, based on the world's computer situation as YOU describe it...
Vendor neutral in this case means it don't matter if it's Dell, IBM, Compaq, HP, etc making the PC...