MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR / FRÖHLICHE WEIHNACHTEN UND EIN GUTES NEUES JAHR!

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Yes, I know, another one of these posts... I'm not sure if this will be the last post of this year, but it's definitely a good moment to say thank you to all the readers, customers and colleagues and to wish you all the best! Looking back, this was a special year in many ways and my first year as the Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft Switzerland. In my new role, I have had the opportunity to do many new things, to do things different and also to learn a lot. Again, thank you for the good time!

But, what is the new year bringing? There were a lot of studies about trends for 2008, upcoming and remaining opportunities (no, I didn't say problems) and only future will show us which ones will be the true ones. However, I'm absolutely sure that security is and will be something that should stand top on our list of priorities. Yes, we still have to solve some remaining "old" stuff, but security will also help us to do our business better, to enable new businesses and flexibility in the way we do business.

And from the blog side? As this is the "Microsoft Switzerland Security Team Blog", I will re motivate the members of the team to start to blog themselves. So, I do hope that you see many blogs with different signatures than "Urs". As usual, this is also the moment to requests more feedback and comments from the readers. Statistically, I have learned, that Swiss people do not write comments to blogs, show me that this is not true! And from the readers geo map (ClustrMap), I know that there are not only Swiss readers... ;-)
Did you know, that this year, the blog had more than 900'000 hits? Yes that's amazing, you are amazing - the number almost doubled since last year! So lets break the 1M next year (or will that already happen in the remaining year?).

What else?

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
All the best wishes to you, your family and your friends.

FRÖHLICHE WEIHNACHTEN UND EIN GUTES NEUES JAHR!
Wunderschöne und besinnliche Festtage, alles Gute und "En guete Rutsch!"

Urs