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PC World 's Best 100 Products of 2007

Posted by Zonk on from the have-to-love-those-product-lists dept.

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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  1. Rubbish by Edie+O'Teditor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Save it for December already!

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  2. Top 100 advertisers? by lintocs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Reads like a who's-who of PC World Advertisers...

    Did they rate them by number of ads, or total dollars spent?

    1. Re:Top 100 advertisers? by thetable123 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Both you and Nikon are missing the point of the Nikon lens mount. The beauty of it is (or at least should be that you can take any lens of any Nikon and put it on any other Nikon. I have a 40 year old lens I can still shoot with it on my brand new Nikon. When you buy into a camera, you are buying into a lens system too. (That is unless the lenses are nothing to write home about.) The lens puts the picture on the film (or sensor), the body just holds everything else in place. Nikon lately has started missing the boat on the low to mid level cameras with compatibility. If I can't use my old Nikon lenses with a new Nikon camera, then I have no real reason to stick with Nikon.

      As to TFA, I can't be the only one is is sick of "Top XX" articles from an (at best) mediocre advertising supplement.

  3. so the #1 product by asv108 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Is essentially a web e-mail service for businesses with extra applications, but there is no protection against data loss or leaks.

    Google's terms of service for Google Apps has some alarming boilerplate about the company not being responsible for lost data.

    I think a lot of organizations will have qualms about sensitive files living on some Google server somewhere.

  4. Reminds of something by HangingChad · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The awards list reminds of a manure spreader: Not much accuracy but lots of coverage.

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  5. Re:Where's Vista? by peacefinder · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm not saying that it's good or bad; I haven't used Vista at all so I have no basis to judge. I'm just kinda shocked that PCWorld didn't include the latest PC operating system in a top 100 list.

    That's a conspicuous silence which speaks volumes about Vista.

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