PC World 's Best 100 Products of 2007

javipas writes "The popular PC World magazine has published its annual list of the 100 best products of the year, with a few surprises on it. Google Apps Premiere Edition ranks first, with 4 other service products on the list. Apple has six products on it, with Tiger — a two-year old OS — on the ninth position. Microsoft and Dell have four each, and Canon and Nikon, three. Ubuntu 7.04 has made it, and has entered on the 16th position. That makes you think about the kind of ranking process, doesn't it?"

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[dalmiroy2k]

Less ads:

http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,131935 /printable.html

Hmm

[satellite17]

Well I'm not sure about the integrity of the article but there are a couple of things that stand out

Games:
Wii at no 3
XBox 360 elite at 18
PS3 nowhere to be seen.

The 360 has been out for over a year and I'm not sure how much 1080p and a bigger HDD make now, I guess in a couple of years when HD downloads become the norm this will make a difference. 1080p TVs have been quite rare in the UK until recently but I saw a very nice looking 40" Samsung the other day for about £1000 so I might treat myself at the end of the year.

(for the record I've got a 360 premium and a wii, I'll probably end up with a PS3 if FFXIII is exclusive but not before, too expensive at the moment!)

OSX Tiger at 9
Apple TV at 11
80GB iPod at 26
Macbook Pro at 82

No Zune
No Vista
I'm assuming that the HP DV900t 17" laptop runs Windows Media Center

iTunes at 61
WMP 11 at 91

So it looks like Apple "wins" over MS in the home media dept

Strangely on my XP box I use iTunes for music and WMP / VLC for Video. I just don't like Quicktime. No rational reason (now it plays video at full screen) but I just can't get on with it. It seems slow and unresponsive.

Still it looks like Apple were right to drop the computer from their name and go for the media market. I get the impression that they've always had the Pro market and so the move to consumer seems to be quite easy for them. (now if they'd just drop the phone bit from the iPhone and sell me a widescreen touch sensitive iPod I'd be a happy man)

Re:December, try January!

[Control Group]

I can only speak to two franchises, because they're the ones I've played, but:

For Madden, the game is numbered according to the year the Superbowl takes place in. For the '07-'08 season, of course, that's '08.

For the MLB franchise the name of which I can't remember, the game was numbered according to the year the Series took place in, which means that MLB '07 would represent the '07 season.