Not content with waiting for another 7 months and 10 days to elapse, PC World has published their list of “The 100 Best Products of 2007.”
We guess it’s really a list of “The 100 Best Products of 2007, So Far.” Therefore, products like Apple’s iPhone are not on the list, but iPhone is #1 atop PC World’s “Most Anticipated Products of the Year” list.
Numbers 1-3 are Google Apps Premier Edition, Intel Core 2 Duo, and Nintendo Wii respectively.
Apple hits the 2007 list six times:
9. Apple Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” (released April 29, 2005!)
11. Apple TV
26. Apple iPod (80GB) (released September 12, 2006!)
45. Apple iPod Nano (8GB) (released September 12, 2006!)
61. Apple iTunes
82. Apple MacBook Pro (released January 10, 2006!)
Notably absent from PC World’s list is Microsoft’s critically panned Windows Vista.
Microsoft does have four products on the list:
18. Microsoft Xbox 360 Elite
56. Microsoft Office 2007
75. SysInternals/Microsoft Process Explorer
91. Microsoft Windows Media Player 11
See the full list, including Parallels Desktop for Mac at #6, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Bizarro Ballmer” for the heads up.]
Doing a “Best of 2007” list in May is just plain stupid. But it is PC World after all, so no surprise.
Tiger is #9 on the list and it wasn’t even released in 2007 – or 2006!!!
“Journalism” at it’s height. Like people reviewing the iPhone before it is out. Amazing. And these choads get PAID for this?
They should have done this list end of this year…like in November or December….which would logically make more sense, since its best products of “2007”. So what happens to the great products that get released in the next seven months? Wrong timing at its best here.
Products from rest of this year are eligible for inclusion in the 2008 or 2009 list!
How can someone possibly say that Office 2007 is an improvement? I suppose it’s only possible if the user enjoys searching for commands, bad GUI design, and just an overall headache.
As Carl Finch would say
“Let’s Have Christmas in July!”
Hell, might as well.
No Vista? Hehehe
Two-year-old Tiger (at #9) beats out brand new Vista (at #. . .er. . .well, nothing)?!?!?
Actually, I’m surprised that I’m surprised.
Why am I surprised? Should I be?
no zune?
some trends to share:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=zune,+ipod&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
“Microsoft does have four products on the list …”
And it would only be three if Microsoft hadn’t bought Sysinternals.
Where is Ballmer’s uncle, the best Zune accessory?
Where’s M$’s aweful smart phone OS? Ya know, part that strategy of which Balmer commented “I like our strategy. I like it a lot?”
Apparently not many other people do…
Pee-Cee World is like the auto industry. My son has just purchased a 2008 truck. I think I’ll wait until November and get a 2009 new car. NOT!
We’ve been robbed! 2 iPods and NO Zune? Preposterous. And don’t get me started on the Vista omission. Can iPods play WMA files? I rest my case.
Et tu, PC World?
I am sickened by the clear manipulation and bullying of the media by Apple. It’s bad enough Cupertino copies everything from Microsoft, but to callously spread lies is despicable. Unfortunately we can’t count on media outlets to do proper research and tell the truth.
Microsoft, thank you for taking the high road. Don’t let Apple drag you down.
Your potential. Our passion.™
Ah Zune Tang-
We’ve all missed your humor.
WMA files on an iPod! That’s the funniest.
Vista, glaringly absent.
Wow.
Those Google search graphs are quite telling. At no point did Zune (as a keyword) ever come even close to iPod; not even at its own highest point, to the lowest point of the iPod in four years! When you look at the ‘News References’ graph, there wasn’t any shortage of news and hype about Zune. You’d think free publicity is good publicity! For a while there, during November (pre-release hype for Zune) the two were neck-and-neck in the media. Yet, when you look at the search graphs, iPod outruns Zune by 10:1. In other words, regardless of what the news are telling the world about the Zune, the world is still searching for iPod.
On another note, a comment for Eric (above), on his inference of bad journalism for publishing reviews of iPhone before it’s out. I can see how many people are annoyed by the hype over this (or any other) product. However, the reviews that are based on actual experience with a working iPhone (and there are many out there) are what we all want to see. We don’t want to buy this phone if it’s all hype and no substance. These reviewers had an hour with the real, working phone to try it out. Before they got their hands on it, they saw Jobs do things with it. While you and I may not be able to buy it until later in June, the phone itself exists and can and should be reviewed by those who do that for a living, so that you and I have something to base our buying decision upon. For those who are annoyed by these reviews, my advice is not to read them. I am very curious and will definitely read every legitimate review (i.e. from a person that actually held and played with the device).
Windows Media Player? In what category? Best iTunes knock-off?
I think the editor’s of PC World published this list now simply so they could leave Window’s Vista conspiculously off the list. That is obviously the most important piece of data from this story; that after 5 years of development, Vista couldn’t even squeek into the top 100 of products. It was beat out by the like “Adblock Plus” for Christ Sakes!
Wait’ll the end of the year, Vista will be on the list after the service pack arrives and everybody cheers their new DRM machines.
5 years.. how many billions spent on Vista? The flagship product for one of the worlds largest company, and the single largest software company in the world..
Billions in sales.. nearly 300 billion market cap, over 70 thousand employees..
And Vista is not even in the top 100 products listed by a magazine that calls itself “PC World” which is clearly a Windows-centric publication.
MDN “using” as in no one is using Vista.
i do not personally LOVE vista…it ruined my hdd while installing da service pack 1 update…
i think vista was a public PROTOTYPE for Windows 7
-techabhi
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