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…