Happy New Year!

Dear friends,

Congratulations on your upcoming New Year 2015!
New victories and new discoveries, new projects and new heights, and, of course, incredible, great achievements in the coming year!
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Summing up the year 2014, we want to thank all our readers. In our blog published:

• 247 publications
• 2,565 comments
• 7,119 votes
• 15 202 favorites

Total number of subscribers: 8711

The most popular post of the year - the announcement of Windows 10 Microsoft introduced Windows 10 , which scored 134 votes, 474 comments and 276 193 views!

The outgoing 2014 year was rich in events and events:

• Conferences: ALM Summit , App Summit , DevCon 2014 , Russian final of the Imagine Cup , Russian App Day and others;
• The first technology talk show Azure Business Talks ;
• A series of virtual events:
  • Development of corporate applications on the Windows 8 and Azure platform
  • Creating games for Windows 8 using Unity3D
• Jump Starts Series:
  • Configure virtualization hosts
  • Upgrading the organization's infrastructure using Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Deploying Virtual Machines and Services
  • Ensuring the security and high availability of virtual machines
  • Hybrid clouds and services with Windows Azure and System Center 2012 R2
• Release of a new version of Visual Studio 2015
• Published more than 500 reports on Techdays.ru , Channel 9 and YouTube, which collected more than 5 million views!
• Created more than 400 articles and materials, which collected more than 600 thousand views. All materials can be found on MSDN (more than 140 articles) and Technet (more than 40 articles), and also in the blog on Habrahabr.ru
• Launching New Hubs on MSDN: Developing Games on MSDN, Windows Hub on MSDN
• The MVA portal has published 30 new courses for developers and 40 new courses on IT infrastructure.
• 33,778 people joined the training on the MVA website for 2014
• 67 IT Camp events held for Russian IT professionals

Last year, Russian students from Perm became the winners of the largest international student technology competition Imagine Cup in the games category and received a prize from the hands of the creator of Tetris Alexey Pajitnov!


In the New Year, we invite you to take part in our largest events, as well as interesting promotions and contests.
Hurry up to register for events now at the best prices and get prizes for participating in contests!

• Anniversary DevCon 2015 - May 20-21. Special price is valid until January 16! Register now!
• Upgrade your application to Windows 8.1 or Windows Phone 8.1 and win promotion for your application - participate in the contest until December 31, 2014!
• Take part in the Gamepad Games Contest and win a Lumia phone.
• Watch the new free video course Microsoft Virtual Academy Everything about the new Windows 10
• Enjoy all the benefits of the new version of Visual Studio 2015

Stay with us, you will find many more interesting things in the coming year!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
And see the interactive version of our postcard for you!

Microsoft team