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Dvorak Looks Back At 'Another Crappy Tech Year'
twitter writes "The Vista Death Watch is PC Magazine's most popular column. That is just one of many items in Dvorak's review of yet another 'disappointing' year in Technology. 'I was not a fan of 2007. It was another crappy tech year--just the latest in a string of bad years dating back to 2000. Let's see some of the highlights and lowlights in no particular order ... The whopper for Intel, though, was its Viiv initiative, which was a dog from the get-go and was dropped--finally. Somewhere along the way, Intel bought into the Silicon Valley crock that CPUs were not important any more. What a laugh. Luckily for the company, it refocused on processor chips and found itself in the driver's seat once again. Of course, Intel will fall off the path again, of that you can be sure.'"
A cynic is somebody who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing. See: Dvorak.
It was a crappy year for the industry because of Viiv?! If, like Dvorak, you are so totally uninformed that you don't know about core2, the 45nm advances, the x38 chipset, Intel's steady stock price in a failing economy, AMD/ATI's competitive next gen cards, the growth of the video game industry, the iPhone, & etc, then I suppose that Viiv might stand out, provided that you are an idiot.