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?"

Rubbish

[Edie O'Teditor]

Save it for December already!

Um? Time Warp?

[ericdano]

Is something messed up over there at PC World? Vista clocks set wrong?

How can you do a Best of 2007 when we aren't even half way through 2007????? Seriously. 2009 cars coming out next week?

I like compression and all, but moving political primaries up, now this.

Top 100 advertisers?

[lintocs]

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

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

so the #1 product

[asv108]

Is essentially a web e-mail service for businesses with extra applications, but there is no protection against data loss or leaks. [pcworld.com]

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.

Don't worry too much about it

[drinkypoo]

The list is chock-full of piles of shit that have superior competition. It's paid advertising. Nothing to see here, move along.

Re:Top 100 advertisers?

[leandrod]

Indeed, they totally ignored the excellent 4/3 "standard" [wikipedia.org] in use by Olympus, Panasonic and Leica, to choose totally proprietary, unexceptional Nikon and Canon cameras. I bet Nikon and Canon have far bigger digicam ad budgets.

Re:Where's Vista?

[HappySmileMan]

Well since Dell have had to continue selling XP after they stopped... Due to public pressure, I can safely assume it wasn't a good product. I haven't used it, but only one person I know who has used it actually likes it, and he moved straight from a Windows 2000 to Vista, everyone I know who had an XP prefers it to Vista.

Re:Rubbish

[Animaether]

where's my mod points already? Troll? More like INSIGHTFUL. Even though it shouldn't take any insight to realize that you can't claim "car of the year 2007" in february either - but I guess it's more profitable not to be insightful. Perhaps the Troll mod that parent poster got is evidence thereof.

PS3?

[pionzypher]

Absent from the lineup is Sonys wonderchild.

And again ...

[PPH]

...online porn tops the list.

Not too bad, but...

[Aphrika]

I would've stuck the Core 2 architecture at #1 as it's made such a huge impact this year across all platforms; desktop, laptop and servers.. There are some notable omissions; the MacBook for one. Why is the overpriced MacBook Pro on there when the oh-so-cheap MacBook isn't? OneNote 2007 deserves a mention. I'd also like to think the Momento 70 digital picture frame should be on there - it's wireless and actually works properly with a PC.

Stuff that shouldn't be on there? iTunes (yawn) - yes, it's iTunes and in 2007 it's done nothing different from what it did in 2006. As I'm in the UK I'd also wager Apple TV too. The concept's nice, but until Apple start selling video over here, it's not particularly inspiring sat under my TV. Ditto for Adobe CS3 - until they start selling it an a realistic price in the UK, it's not getting my vote at all. We're paying something like $700 for a Photoshop CS2 > CS3 upgrade for Pete's sake!!

Oh yeah, and why are we doing top 100s in May again?

Reminds of something

[HangingChad]

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

Re:Where's Vista?

[peacefinder]

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.

Price clearly wasn't a factor

[Anonymous Coward]

They went from a $4000+ gaming PC which is the epitome of poor value for money to freeware like Firefox and Audacity.

This list is just a bunch of stuff some guy thinks is cool. If I cared about that I would read people's Amazon lists all day instead of Slashdot :)

Counterexample

[Anonymous Coward]

4 people modded this up, 3 people posted replies above me, and no one mentions the obvious counterexample: Vista with its $500 million marketing campaign doesn't make the list.

Re:Top 100 advertisers?

[jmitchel!jmitchel.co]

Eh - 4/3rds just isn't an especially lovable standard. It pushes the sensor size a bit smaller than a lot of DSLR people would really like to see. I'd have to use some pretty ridiculously wide lenses to get a decently wide Field Of View. The 1.5x crop sensors that the rest of the DSLR makers (Nikon / Canon / Pentax) use are already a bit small.

I could almost forgive the small sensors if the manufacturers were really doing nice, innovative things with them, but the 4/3rds cameras are (unless I've missed something) staying relatively clunky/large, and features like live preview aren't being done well yet.

December, try January!

[WIAKywbfatw]

I'd rather look back on the whole year rather than 11/12ths of it. Or are we just saying that December is totally irrelevant?

This ridiculous game of one-upmanship that people play with each other to try to get their annual reviews in ahead of others, etc is just ridiculous. Frankly, it just makes them look stupid.

And while I'm on the subject, why the hell does EA title the annual releases of their sports game for the following years rather than the years that they're published? Are people really stupid enough to think that when they buy Madden 2008 this year that they're somehow getting next year's game in advance?

Re:Top 100 advertisers?

[thetable123]

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.

Re:Where's Vista?

[spisska]

I'm just kinda shocked that PCWorld didn't include the latest PC operating system in a top 100 list.

But they did include the latest. Ubuntu is at number 16.

Re:yay abuse of moderation

[Anonymous Coward]

"Trolling" is posting in such a way as to illicit angry responses from people on the forum - getting them to "bite". Whether the poster believes what he's posting is irrelevant. The phrasing and intent are what matters.

Re:Printer friendly link

[eMbry00s]

What's the point of doing that when the article itself is a humongous ad?

(don't answer, I know)

Thanks!

[RocketScientist]

Thanks to PC World for not making this a 10-page article with 10 items on each page, with gloriously large ads for each of the 10 products.

While we can argue on the merits of individual items on the list (which, arguably, is part of the reason to post such a list) the presentation format is top notch.

Re:Rubbish

[bkr1_2k]

Not to mention some of the products aren't even from 2006, much less 2007. OS X Tiger was released in April 2005. How is that relavent to 2007? Or is it preemptively supposed to say Panther and they just screwed up?

Even as an Apple user, I call bullshit on this "100 best list"

Re:Trusted Computing and GPL3 FUD...

[Anonymous Coward]

IANAL, but if you don't RTFM you can STFU. YMMV.

Re:OS X Tiger

[Glove d'OJ]

"The 100 Best Products of 2007," not "The 100 Best NEW Products of 2007."

If this is the case, then where are:

• Airplane
• Automobile
• Penicillin
• Democracy / Democratic Republic
• Electric Lightbulb
• Radio
• Personal Computer
• TCP/IP
• CAT-5 cable
• Space Shuttle
• Ballpont Pen
• Cat's Eye Road Reflector
• Phonograph

Each of these is available (potnetially under a branded name, i.e., Ford Mustang vs. generic "automobile") as a product in 2007.

Or is this just a huge slashvertisement for the PC World advertisers?