Happy New Year!

Dear Habravchane!

Congratulations on your upcoming New Year 2014!
Good luck, fulfillment of desires and dizzying success to you in the New Year!

Last year flew quickly and rapidly.
During 2013, we shared with you more than 600 technical materials and reports that we saw and, I hope, used in our work and life more than 1.5 million times!
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Our application ecosystem with your help grew in front of our eyes, including Instagram, Yandex.Navigator, Yandex.Taxi, 2Gis, constantly updating “VKontakte” and the opportunity to earn 3000000 rubles for a Telegram client on Windows Phone from Pavel Durov right now!



Our partners have released a lot of bright devices - for example, Nokia introduced a completely new line of Lumia products over the past 12 months:



This year in our blog published:

• 285 publications
• 2,887 comments
• 5,653 votes
• 11,100 favorites

Number of followers: 6555
The most popular post of the year, which scored 62 108 views and over 200 comments: Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013 are available for download

In the past year there were a lot of bright events, materials and announcements:

• Conferences: Windows Azure Summit , DevCon 2013 , HTML5 Camp , International Final Imagine Cup , launch of Visual Studio , Windows Camp , Cloud OS Summit , Design Camp and many other events.
• Over 1600 entries posted on Techdays.ru
• Online events: All about Windows 8.1 , Build for both , Apps design , Jump start
• Release of a new version of Visual Studio 2013
• Created more than 600 articles and castes, which collected more than 1.5 million views. All materials can be found on MSDN (more than 130 articles) and TechNet (more than 30 articles), as well as in the blog on Habrahabr.ru
• Running an updated version of the MSDN portal
• Launch of new hubs on TechNet : Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8.1, System Center 2012 R2, Windows Azure, Data Platform, Productivity.
• More than 30 courses on application development and more than 20 courses on IT infrastructure prepared and published on the MVA portal
• 15,000 people joined the training on the MVA website for 2013
• 40 IT Camp events held for Russian IT professionals

In the coming year you will find even more interesting content, contests and conferences! Stay with us in the New 2014! Be happy!

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Respectfully,
Microsoft team