2007 Year in Review

December 22nd, 2007

2007 year in review…

2007 was not The Year of the Linux Desktop.
2007 was the year of Google. They released app upgrades at at astonishing rate, and the pace is accelerating.
Phrase of the year: wide stanced.
Actually, 2007 was the year of the taser. Don’t tase me, bro.
2007 brought us the most disgusting video in the history of the internet. That’s saying something. Recording people’s reactions to the video is a popular YouTube meme.
Vista is about a year old. We have far more device drivers and stability is just fine. It is still a resource hog compared to XP, the bundled apps (Paint, Notepad, etc) still suck, and usability is hampered by constant popups (affectionately known as barkware, a term I learned from Brad Shuler). Overall impression? Meh.
Apple didn’t tell us how they feel about Java.
An astronaut wore a diaper and drove 900 miles to confront a romantic rival.
Celebrities in the news: OJ Simpson, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Lindsey Lohan.
In 2007, the Zune finally caught up to iPod. The 2005 iPod.
A never-ending list of Java 7 features are on everyone’s mind. Meanwhile, thousands of corporate IT departments still use 1.4.