Happy New Year 2016

Dear friends,

Congratulations on your upcoming 2016 New Year ! Let the next year bring interesting projects and the joy of new victories, even if there are always non-standard ways to solve complex problems. We wish you prosperity, family well-being and success in business!



I want to share with you the results of the year. This year in our blog published:

• 256 publications
• 2,080 comments
• 5,257 votes
• 13,734 favorites added to favorites
• 2,517,477 views

Total number of subscribers: 10,027
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The most popular post of the year was the first post in 2015 - JavaScript Trends for 2015 , which scored 108 votes, 73 comments and 100,295 views!

The outgoing 2015 year was rich in events and events:

• Conferences: ALM Summit , IT Conference , Russian final of the Imagine Cup , DevCon 2015 , Microsoft Tech Day , Windows Camp , Windows Camp // Labs , Community DevCamp , TechDays , MBLTDEV and Web Standards Days .
• The first technological expedition of Microsoft Developer Tour took place in 13 cities of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
• Virtual events dedicated to Visual Studio 2015 :
• Cross Platform Development with Visual Studio 2015
• Visual Studio Connect 2015 in Russia
• Jump Starts Series:
• JumpStart: Monitoring: from server to application. System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2
• JumpStart: Windows 10 in a corporate environment
• JumpStart: Modern Hybrid Solutions
• JumpStart: Cloud Services Prescribed by Microsoft: Russian Service Providers Practice
• 35 IT Camp events held for Russian IT professionals
• 536 videos have been posted on the Youtube channel; they have scored 652,984 views.
• Created more than 100 articles and materials, which collected more than 57 000 thousand views. All materials can be found on MSDN ( 41 205 895 views) and Technet ( 16 614 553 views), as well as in a blog on Habrahabr.ru
• The MVA portal published 31 new courses for developers and 70 new courses on IT infrastructure.
• 23,180 people joined the training on the MVA website in 2015.

In the upcoming 2016, we are preparing for you many new and interesting things:

• DevCon 2016 - the conference will be held in a new format on May 25-26. The participants of the event will have more opportunities for practical immersion in technology and for obtaining new knowledge. At the same time, DevCon is still more than just a conference with a rich program and communication with experts and colleagues outside the program. Sign up now!
• 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

Read about our key announcements for 2015 in the post .

Thank you for being with us in 2015!

We hope that for you it was as productive and memorable as for Microsoft. Let 2016 be no less successful, let the code be written easily, and the projects are submitted before the deadline!

This year there is only one important task left - to deliver the Christmas tree to the party - http://aka.ms/happynewyear_2016
And only you can help!

Stay with us, you will find many more interesting things in the New Year!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Respectfully,
Technical Audience Team