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10 Best IT Products Of 2006

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-do-so-love-a-top-ten-list dept.

digihome writes "CRN.com chooses the ten best new products of 2006, including the best development tools, server, notebook and storage device. Some of the choices may surprise you ... such as their choice for operating system of the year." From the article: "With Windows Vista, Microsoft has refreshed the user desktop experience. While debate rages over whether the five-year wait was worth it, the truth is Vista is pretty much the only game in town. One may question whether Vista should be bestowed with Product of the Year recognition in the operating system category. But the product unquestionably brings new features and capabilities to solution providers that in turn promise new revenue generation dialogues with end users."

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  1. Impressive! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    But the product unquestionably brings new features and capabilities to solution providers that in turn promise new revenue generation dialogues with end users.

    Wow! It must be really cool if it does that!

    1. Re:Impressive! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      But the product unquestionably brings new features and capabilities to solution providers that in turn promise new revenue generation dialogues with end users. *head explodes*
    2. Re:Impressive! by jbrader · · Score: 5, Funny
      "Buy it."

      "Why? We don't need it."

      "sudo buy it"

      "ok"

      With apologies to xkcd

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    3. Re:Impressive! by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 4, Funny

      That article really drove a value added decision process with this end user based on business intelligence marketing strategiums! Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres...

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    4. Re:Impressive! by bitt3n · · Score: 5, Funny

      My crowbar should get product of the year. I use it to engage in revenue generating dialogue with random people on the street.

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    5. Re:Impressive! by a.d.trick · · Score: 5, Funny

      I took me a while to figure it out, but this is the best Engish translation I can come up with:

      The product provides a way for businesses to commit highway robery on their customers.
    6. Re:Impressive! by cyber-vandal · · Score: 5, Funny

      The mangling of the English language for no good reason really sucks though. Revenue generation dialogues indeed. Why don't these arseholes just disappear up their own arseholes and do us all a favour.

    7. Re:Impressive! by jacksonj04 · · Score: 4, Funny

      If anybody want to hold me at gunpoint then provide me with a taylor made suit, I'm fine with that.

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    8. Re:Impressive! by dosquatch · · Score: 2, Funny

      An asshole disappearing up its own asshole is like dividing by zero.

      I'm sorry, you must be looking for the "undefinity" article. Down the hall, to the left.

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    9. Re:Impressive! by misleb · · Score: 3, Funny

      And then they shoot you in the foot after you buy the vest.

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    10. Re:Impressive! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Actually that sentence does sort of serve a purpose. Let's actually read it...

      But the product unquestionably brings new features and capabilities to solution providers that in turn promise new revenue generation dialogues with end users.

      The pop quiz:

      1) According to this sentence, what does the product bring to end users?

      2) Which of the following could be described as a "revenue generation dialogue"?
                  a) "Check out the new features." "Neat"
                  b) "This new product will save you a lot of money." "Great"
                  c) "Give us all your money or we will kill your servers" "Ulp"

    11. Re:Impressive! by ToasterofDOOM · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well, not all of us are into that sort of stuff, it's a little kinky. Also, it's not extremely high tech, however innovative it may be.

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  2. No! No! No! They got it all wrong by antifoidulus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tiger was released LAST year so it shouldn't be considered a winner for this year....oh wait, that ISN'T Tiger? Well I'll be damned....

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  3. Does this remind anyone else... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    ...of a high school book report? FTA:
    "That simplicity continues through to wireless networking capability, which allows users to quickly and securely join both public and private wireless networks with click-and-play simplicity."
  4. Re:Top 10... by hey! · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah, I see. They're from the Captain Louis Renault school of trade mag journalism.

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  5. Re:If I cared by PingSpike · · Score: 4, Funny

    That sentence was a typo...it should have read "..the only game in town willing to pay for a spot on our shitty list."

  6. Re:Hate these lists. by Moofie · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pirates can TOTALLY take out ninjas because CANNONS!

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  7. Re:Vista is the product of the decade by SoulRider · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, No, No. Vista is not the product of the decade, its the product that took a decade.

  8. was i the only one by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 2, Funny

    that read that as 10 Base T products of 2006?

  9. Re:wow what a spammy website by JD-1027 · · Score: 2, Funny

    You only got about 50% blockage?

    I just got a blank page when I went there.

    My blocker figured out the article was an ad.

  10. Re:Hate these lists. by hoojus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually best way to kill ninja is by shouting "bedtime".