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One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

If you have a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) credential, you are one of 1,433 people worldwide. If you have a MCSE on Windows Server 2003, you are one of 68,668 worldwide. For more, check out the page we just updated here. Let me know how else you'd like to see this updated. Next time I'll ask to have the different certs of MCTS, MCPD, MCITP added... 

You're one in a million. Really. I mean it. One!! In a million!

Published Sunday, March 18, 2007 6:49 PM by trikah@microsoft.com
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Sunday, March 18, 2007 3:57 PM by Richard

# re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

I also would like to see the "older" certifications like MCSE NT4.0.

Sunday, March 18, 2007 4:22 PM by Varanusz

# re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

agree with hartplaza, i'm interested in nt4 certs. also in the nr of MCP's.

Sunday, March 18, 2007 6:20 PM by Pete

# re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

MCS(A|E):(S|M) in 2k3 could be interesting too.

Monday, March 19, 2007 8:26 AM by Alfred Myers

# re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

From MCPDs, how many are Enterprise Applications Developer?

Monday, March 19, 2007 9:47 AM by MagnusJ

# re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

It would be interesting to see a breakdown in the MCTS group. Biztalk/.NET 2.0 Web/SQLServer/Mobile etc...

Also, similar in the MCPD group:

Web/Windows/Enterprise

/M

Monday, March 19, 2007 9:48 AM by MagnusJ

# re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

It would be interesting to see a breakdown in the MCTS group. Biztalk/.NET 2.0 Web/SQLServer/Mobile etc...

Also, similar in the MCPD group:

Web/Windows/Enterprise

/M

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 2:40 AM by Kjetil

# re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

And maybe breakdown on the one that got the specializations on 2003? (Security/Exchange)

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 8:51 AM by S.Y.Paul Lai

# re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

Wow, I didn't expect the number is still so low, after a whole year.  I passed the MCPD exams in beta and the certification dates of all my 3 MCPD credentials are 1st March, 2006.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 1:13 PM by Niall

# re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

Cool numbers.. Is it possible to get a break down of the devs and the disciplines???

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 2:05 PM by Niall Merrigan's Blog

# 1 in 1433

Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:08 AM by RhysW

# re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

As a few others have mentioned, it would be good to see the specialisations in MCSA or MCSE.

I would also be interested in geographical breakdown per continent  and MCA certifications.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007 11:41 PM by Miklos

# re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

It will be great if we can see also the number of MCT that are in the world :)... the challenge here is that the number can increase or decrease each year (but more probably increase)..

And also what about the MCA? a number should be great to know how many are in the world

- Miklos

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 6:29 PM by Helmer

# re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

Hi there,

It would be nice if the Security and Messaging specialisations would be visible in the table.

Too bad MCTS isn't in the list :-(

I'm curious how many MCTS - Windows Vista Configuring there are in the world...

Wednesday, June 13, 2007 11:16 AM by Sean Bryson

# re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

I would really like to see a complete breakdown of certifications and not just a bucket approach.  For example, instead of just listing total number of MCTS certified individuals, do a breakdown.  So, show us how many people hold the MCTS: Office Live Communications Server 2005 or the MCTS: Office SharePoint Server, Configuration.  This should also be done for the MCSE tracks like the MCSE: Security on Windows Server 2003, etc.  I think this would provide better value so both those certified and those looking at certified job candidates can get a clear picture on the total number of people certified.

Friday, June 15, 2007 6:47 AM by Martin

# re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

To some of the asking

There used to be a good site and column about this topic in MCPMAG. ("MCPs in the Numbers")

Too bad they stopped it.

Here's a link to the final edition - with some MCP/MCSE numbers:

http://mcpmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=529&page=1

Monday, July 02, 2007 11:26 AM by Niall M

# re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

What are the chances of getting these numbers.. I would like it to show the value of the certs in our place

Tuesday, July 03, 2007 3:59 PM by Larry West MCSD, MCPD, MCITP, MCTS x5, etc.

# re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

Trika,

How hard would it be for someone at Microsoft to write a trigger that would poll the certified professional database and update the numbers on a regular (even nightly) basis? Surely, someone at Microsoft knows how to do it!

I agree with the others that the breakdowns should be included.

I am also curious as to how many people besides myself have the MCPD, MCITP, and MCTS (multiple certifications).

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 7:18 AM by Meile Zetstra

# re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

Trika,

How about an estimate on when we could expect a new refreshed page with the numbers? Seeing that the current page is dated March 1, 2007, I'ld say it's time for an update.

And of course the many breakdowns mentioned would also be very nice to have.

Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:24 PM by trikah@microsoft.com

# re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

Check it, this request is in the web queue (it won't have all the new certs yet but most/all of your other requests were used). I think it will be updated in the next week? or two? I'll let you know when it is. We have a new person to help with this stuff now, so the plan is to update this page once per month.

Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:31 PM by trikah@microsoft.com

# re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

Larry. That is a great idea. I'll ask if that could be on our list. The thing is, it probably isn't "hard," the question is more 1) how many MSFT policies, people capacity, existing software, database feeds & firewalls, web platform limitations, etc. do we have to navigate to get it done! And, if we can... is this more important than one of the other requests in the list. But I'd love it - I'll see if someone can scope it out for us.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 8:38 PM by "So, a booth babe and a geek walk in to a bar..."

# Evidence That You Are Special

If it isn't enough to have your mom tell you, you can now find out how special you are by seeing how

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 8:40 PM by trikah@microsoft.com

# re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

http://blogs.msdn.com/trika/archive/2007/07/19/evidence-that-you-are-special.aspx

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 9:10 PM by Noticias externas

# Evidence That You Are Special

If it isn't enough to have your mom tell you, you can now find out how special you are by seeing

Thursday, July 19, 2007 4:32 AM by Jesper Bernle

# re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

Hi Trika!

It would be nice to be able to see how many MCTS: Live Communications Server 2005 there is in the world.

I think that LCS, or really more accurate OCS, will come out of its hiding behind Exchange Server and start taking more ground than ever before.

A nice indicator of how well it´s received in the hands of the IT Consultants, as well as customer demands, is the number of certified professionals.

Regards

Jesper Bernle

Thursday, July 26, 2007 3:27 PM by AdamV

# re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

I am an MCP and striving for my MCSA:Messaging then MCSE

I work a lot with small businesses and my MOS:Master qualification helps me provide them an all-round holistic service in building systems for _people_ to _use_ - so I look at how they use their apps as much as the backend infrastructure.

With Sharepoint increasingly moving into this space this combination is really valuable.

So, I would like to see:

MOS qualifications (per app, per level (normal / expert), per version 2000 / 2003). Or at least total normal / total expert / total master. I appreciate this is somewhat different from the technical track, so maybe a different page to show this would make sense.

*wishlist* the overlap of MCP-track and MOS-track ie how many people hold both. (I accept this may be empirically hard to tie together with any degree of accuracy because of the separate registrations for the two systems via different exam houses etc).

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