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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.'"
I am with Bjarne on this one
Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C++ programming language, claims that C++ is experiencing a revival and that there is a backlash against newer programming languages such as Java and C#. "C++ is bigger than ever. There are more than three million C++ programmers. Everywhere I look there has been an uprising - more and more projects are using C++. A lot of teaching was going to Java, but more are teaching C++ again. There has been a backlash.", said Stroustrup.