By Alex Ward PUBLISHED: 10:57 EST, 17 July 2012 | UPDATED: 12:56 EST, 17 July 2012 Move over Bill Gates, there’s a new whizz kid in town and he really is a kid. Gates may have been the world's youngest self-made billionaire but Shafay Thobani, 8, could be his up and coming rival after becoming the world’s youngest Microsoft specialist. The boy from Pakistan has mastered complicated internet protocol and domain name systems to become a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in Microsoft Windows 7 Configuration and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. Whizz kid: Shafay Thobani, 8, has become the world's youngest Microsoft specialist, doing 13 months of training and classes to get the Microsoft certification
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Shafay Thobani is now a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
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He spent 13 months studying for the exams
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Afternoons after school spent doing five hour computer classes
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The title validates Shafay's skills in Microsoft software
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