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10 Best IT Products Of 2006
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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It's when you read sentences like those, that you are sure the article is written by some marketing departement, and not by a technology specialist.
Yes, I'm left. You have a problem with that?
So a product that will be released in 2007 is the product of the year in 2006? Now I'd defend Microsoft to a point, but this is absolute bullshit. Vista should not win this at all. It's not even released to the mass market yet.
that and terms like 'revenue stream' and 'value added'.
yeesh.
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Is this the MPAA? Is this the RIAA? Is this the DMCA? I thought it was the USA!
I wonder how much Microsoft paid those guys to make Windows Vista one of the best IT products of the year?
Oh the cynicism...
The big problem with this list is that it's mislabeled as the "10 Best IT Products of 2006," when it should be labeled "Ad Copy for the 10 IT Products whose sales force managed to sweet talk the analysts who wrote this thing enough to be included."
I've read enough trade magazines to recognize that the blurbs on all of these products come pretty much verbatim from the sales office of the respective companies.
This article is purely for VARs. None of the blurbs are anything close to actual reviews. Having worked for a company whose product looked cool but had major problems under the hood (due to feature creep and unrealistic deadlines primarily), but still managed to get great reviews from "analysts," I can tell you it's distressingly easy to get publications like this to give glowing reviews, even if what you're offering is either broken or primarily vapor.
Is prompting you for approval every time you run an app really considered innovative security?
I will never fully trust a gui to develop another gui.
There are no loopholes. It's either legal or it's not.
CRN = Computer Reseller News. Of course they're going to love Vista!-- rolling out Vista will be a boon to computer resellers everywhere, because few businesses are going to bother upgrading the vast majority of their existing machines, they're going to replace them with hardware beefy enough to run Vista with most of its bells and whistles.
This is hardly an award given for technical merit. Vista represents a full trough for all the revenue-hungry pigs to crowd around.
Any such list that includes Windows Vista as the "Best Operating System" loses all credibility.
I have been running Vista for a few weeks now and it is nothing more than an incremental improvement on Windows XP/Server 2k3.
Given the resources of Microsoft, the worldwide importance of the OS and the time taken for development, Vista is a disgrace.
-- Jeff P. Realname
I mean, in the sense that they've been mucking about with it for at least that long. Isn't it Cairo, finally arrived? Something like that, anyway.
Of course, it won't really be all there until next year, so perhaps they're being premature in including it on the list. Also, it will indisputably be the product of the year next year in terms of money.
One almost wonders if it made the list this year so they can omit it from next year, when other OSes might embarrass it. Not to name any names.
I am the one true god. However, as an atheist, I don't believe in myself. I guess I have a self-esteem problem.
Basically most of the things solve problems that no one cares about.
You are clearly not a manager.
This guy's the limit!
I don't mean to nitpick, but did you note the magazine? It's whole subject matter revolves around VARs. That's Value Added Reseller
Raging in an online forum won't do anything for the world around you. To see change, you must take action.
This is thinly disguised link-bait from a site I've never heard of. Is there any special reason that it was deemed /. worthy, apart from the fact that their inclusion of Vista will incite a vicious troll war?
To make things even worse, each of the 10 "winners" appears on a separate page to pump up ad impressions.
Yeah, I figure they mean this kind of dialogue:
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
I actually own the workstation edition of this laptop (the model from last year, nw8240). I think that while the specs (at that time) were top notch and could not be beat in a smaller package, the build quality of the computer is kind of bad. The casing is quite easy to break and is easier to look "beat up." The screen is also questionable, as mine had dead pixels and "yellow" spots after less than six months of use. The service department of my school replaced that computer's motherboard two times in the last year alone, and I am not one to put my computers through the rough.
Why aren't any of IBM/Lenovo's Thinkpad offerings on that list? I see that computer used more often than the high-end HP's in business anyway, which is well deserved because they are rock solid and last a really long time. I had their 760L from 10 years ago working until 2 years ago when someone took the computer and smashed it to the floor. And even after that it still worked! The same went for my Thinkpad 600.
If my computer's internals hadn't been replaced, the thing would have been gone in less than six months, which is unacceptable to me.
In other words, it's a popup window that says "Your computer is infected with spyware. Click here to buy our spyware remover!"
Did you notice the relevance of your own sigline: "Attack the message, not the messenger."?
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
Wow, who would have thought that you could cram 5 single processor dual core 1U boxes into the space that you could cram 16 quad processor quad core blades into? This is simply AMAZING!
Yes, for the pedantic nitwit lurking out there ready to pounce, IBM does not recommend this without some serious upgrades to the BladeCenter power supply and a very good external cooling system. Seriously though, generic dual core 1u servers are so two years ago.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Vista's new "security feature"
(install "untrusted" software aka we didn't pay MS $500)
run software
Vista: whoa! are you sure you want this to run? click yes
Vista: whoa! your software is accessing your HD, is this ok? click yes
Vista: whoa..... you get the picture
basically its going to be a pain in the ass to run open source software unless you turn this "feature" off, and then its just as insecure as any other windows. Vista security is just a bandaid, nothing more.
I got nothin'
It is more like, "Hey, that's a nice computer you have there. I would hate to see it get infected by a virus because we got lazy about maintaining security on older versions of Windows. Here, buy Vista."
-matthew
"THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE IS ONLY ME." -Death
So it's like somebody holding you at gunpoint and offering to sell you a bulletproof vest?
I've upped my standards, so up yours.