Merry Xmas to all Software Ruminators!

2012 is the 5th year I’ve been blogging and it keeps getting better – at least for me! I really enjoy writing these posts and helping bring some clarity to the often confusing world of Microsoft licensing – I hope you all enjoy reading them…or at least find them useful 🙂

Some choice stats:

• 2012 saw around a 20% increase in views over 2011
• Both the highest monthly total and highest daily average were in 2012
• The top 8 posts of 2012 were:
• Microsoft Open Licensing (OLP)
• Windows 7 Presentation Mode
• Windows 8 Enterprise SideLoading Keys
• How to make a custom ringtone for Windows Phone Mango
• Windows Server 2012 Licensing Changes
• System Center 2012 Licensing Changes
• Windows 8 New Features
• Microsoft make changes to Core CAL Licensing
• The top 10 most frequently visiting countries were:
• USA
• UK
• India
• Australia
• Canada
• Germany
• Netherlands
• Russian Federation
• France
• Brazil
• I also had blog visitors from countries such as:
• Burkina Faso
• Eritrea
• Andorra
• Greenland
• Aruba
• Aland Islands
• and more

I’d also like to give a shout out to the excellent Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet for the great conversation at WPC and also the blog links and retweets throughout the year – most appreciated, thank you very much! 🙂

Microsoft have given me a lot of things to blog about in 2012 and hopefully 2013 will be the same. Thank you to everyone who has visited this blog, tweeted a link, shared it in LinkedIn, shared it on Facebook etc – it’s hugely appreciated 🙂

See you next year.

Cheers

Rich