
Happy New Year 2016!
Dear friends,
Congratulations on the upcoming New Year 2016 ! May the next year give interesting projects and the joy of new victories, may there always be non-standard ways to solve complex problems. We wish you prosperity, family well-being and success in business! I would like to share with you the results of the outgoing year. This year our blog posted:

Total followers: 10,027
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 year 2015 was rich in events and activities:
In the upcoming 2016, we are preparing a lot of new and interesting things for you:
Read about our key announcements for 2015 in a post .
Thank you for being with us in 2015!
We hope that it was as productive and memorable for you as it was for Microsoft. Let 2016 be no less successful, let the code be easy to write, and projects should be submitted before the deadlines!
This year there was only one important task left - to bring the 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! Sincerely, Technical Audience Team

Congratulations on the upcoming New Year 2016 ! May the next year give interesting projects and the joy of new victories, may there always be non-standard ways to solve complex problems. We wish you prosperity, family well-being and success in business! I would like to share with you the results of the outgoing year. This year our blog posted:

- 256 posts
- 2,080 comments
- 5,257 votes
- 13,734 favorites
- 2,517,477 views
Total followers: 10,027
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 year 2015 was rich in events and activities:
- Conferences: ALM Summit , IT Conference , Imagine Cup Russian Final , DevCon 2015 , Microsoft Tech Day , Windows Camp , Windows Camp // Labs , Community DevCamp , TechDays , MBLTDEV and Web Standards Days .
- The first technological expedition of the Microsoft Developer Tour took place in 13 cities of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
- Visual Studio 2015 virtual events :
- 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 an Enterprise Environment
- JumpStart: Modern Hybrid Solutions
- JumpStart: Microsoft Prescription Cloud Services: The Practice of Russian Service Providers
- 35 IT Camp events held for Russian IT professionals
- On the Youtube channel published 536 videos, gaining 652,984 views
- Created more than 100 articles and materials, collecting more than 57,000 thousand views. All materials you can find on MSDN ( 41 205 895 views) and Technet ( 16 614 553 views), as well as on the blog on Habrahabr.ru
- 31 new courses for developers and 70 new courses on IT infrastructure published on the MVA portal
- 23,180 people joined the training on the MVA website for 2015.
In the upcoming 2016, we are preparing a lot of new and interesting things for you:
- DevCon 2016 - the conference will be held in a new format on May 25-26. The event participants will have more opportunities for practical immersion in technology and for 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. Register now!
- Watch Microsoft Virtual Academy's New Free Video Course All About New Windows 10
- Enjoy all the benefits of the new version of Visual Studio 2015
Read about our key announcements for 2015 in a post .
Thank you for being with us in 2015!
We hope that it was as productive and memorable for you as it was for Microsoft. Let 2016 be no less successful, let the code be easy to write, and projects should be submitted before the deadlines!
This year there was only one important task left - to bring the 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! Sincerely, Technical Audience Team
