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17:56 16th January 2009
An eight-year-old boy from Macedonia has officially become the world's youngest certified computer system administrator, the Times reports today (January 16th).
Marko Calasan, from Skopje, has been labelled the 'Mozart of computers' by the press in his homeland after passing exams for IT professionals devised by computer giant Microsoft.
As a result, he has become a local celebrity and recently had an audience with Macedonian prime minister Nikola Gruevski, who gave him an IT lab with 15 computers fro his achievements.
Marko told the newspaper: "The Microsoft officials gave me computer games and DVDs with cartoons when I passed the exams because I am a child. That was nice, but I'm not really interested in those things.
"I'd like to be a computer scientist when I grow up and create a new operational system."
The qualification means he could theoretically operate complex office networks and his parents have confirmed that they hope to send him abroad to a learning institute for gifted children.
Microsoft had an estimated market capital value of $230 billion as of September 2008.
