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.'"

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[Ibiwan]

I propose another topic of discussion, specifically a question raised by my dad after I read him several of the current comments:

What individual piece of tech do you use that you've used for the longest period of time?

For reference, he's got a computer he's happy has lasted 6 years, and some woodworking tools he's hoping will last 50.

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[cgenman]

Great bits of technology this year:

Consoles finally hit their strides. This was the best year for videogames in a very, very long time.

The iPhone was released. Even if this particular phone has issues, suddenly everyone is talking about phone interfaces and features that aren't mired in 1993.

VOIP is really taking off. Sure, people are shutting it down, but it is doing well.

Amazon MP3 sales.