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- rchtr, on 10/12/2007, -12/+41Surprised, disappointed, and in disagreement. Based on innovation and buzz, I'd say Wii would be #1.
- dododod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25Good list, but you missed one,
#4 Nintendo Wii - DSman90, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24Cleverly left out the Wii, eh?
- PhantomBantam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20I hate PCworld and it's 5 pages per article rule. I refuse to go to their website. And, by the looks of the list, it ouldn't have been worth it. Rhapsody? Come on.
- mindsnare, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19web based operating systems are one of this year's stupidest innovations..
if you can't boot to it it's not an operating system people, these are just a bunch of sites with calculators, WOW oh wait a second, every real GUI operating system in existence has one of these! AMAZING - diggsIt, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24The PC World site should not be referenced anymore. It is nothing but advertising. Enough.
- eurocrisp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17PS3 made it to the list? is high definition gaming legitimately "innovative"?
- zforrester, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16no ones digging cause it's not a very good list, generally
- alwaysmc2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Have you used Office 2007? The ribbon starts off a whole new world of how to use Office, along with other new features.
- oyvinmar, on 10/12/2007, -17/+28The list:
1. Microsoft Office 2007
2. Intel Core 2 Duo
3. Parallels Desktop for Mac
5. Samsung 32GB SSD
6. Sony Reader
7. YouOS
8. Dell XPS M2010
9. Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB
10. T-Mobile Dash
11. Pioneer Inno
12. Farecast
13. Sony BWU-100A Blu-Ray Disc Rewritable Drive
14. Olympus EVolt E-330
15. Google SketchUp
16. Sony PlayStation 3
17. RIM BlackBerry Pearl 8100
18. Rhapsody 4.0
19. Logitech NuLooq
20. Shure E500PTH Sound Isolating Earphones - krinthekuz, on 09/16/2008, -4/+14this list sucks, and i seriously questions whether the ranks in this list were "sponsored". i'd say wii, core duo, youos, and the seagate 750gb are the only ones there worthy of anything... and they left off the motorola a1200 ming, the [currently] best handheld (phone/pim/media player/radio/camera) on the market, because it makes the razr, q, and everything else look like toys. most of those are overpriced crap or unusable (32gb sd card requires extra addressing which most handhelds dont have)
also, stop submitting pcworlds ad ridden drawn out articles (5 pages for a simple top 20 list?). use the printable versions instead
http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,128176/printable.html - bleutuna, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Maybe. Someone had to do it, and it IS extremely useful. ::face_shrug::
- DigeratiPrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6without all the crap (printable)
http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,128176/printable.html - greendigger, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8I have used Office 2007 in beta and it's dream to work with, the Live Preview is definitely refreshing and cool concept. Suddenly MS application looks cool. I think, Office 2007 can save MSFT, otherwise there should not be any hopes with Vista, unless MSFT pays for virus attacks on XP and 2000 OS!! Actually, that's not a bad idea!! ;)
- wingnut21, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6What is that POS, ugly, overpriced dell computer doing on there?
- bleutuna, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7YouOS is uesless. So would be a GoogleOS. Any web based OS is ridiculous. The 750GB harddrive is more innovative/revolutionary than the Wii?
Sorry, don't think so. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I hate the pcworld website. Who the ***** wants to click 100 times to see a list of 20 things? Waste of my time.
- wilf_brim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Sony Reader? The technology is innovative, but it will fail miserably. Why? The publishers are deathly afraid of eBooks, and they charge up the ass for them. Why spend 10 bucks on an ebook (no physical product) that is difficult to back up, easy to lose the license, can't be loaned, gifted, or given; when for 3 more you can buy a real book that has has none of those drawbacks.
Until the publishers realize that eBooks are worth far less than their real counterparts eBook readers are doomed. - cgomez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Ditto to digsit.
It is such blatant page-view mongering at the PCWorld site. "Hey, let's do a top twenty list...but we make the reader click next after every two items!" ... "Brilliant!" *sigh*
As to the actual contents of the article; Office deserves the top spot, although I do have to say that the ribbon toolbar idea is awful and made me far less productive the week I tried using it. And that Dell 20lb. laptop thing form CES that they have an number eight was just ridiculous. - akinder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@Mio
Microsoft made it, so he probably just automatically hates it, like the rest of the fanboys. If Apple had done it, or Linux, it would be the cure to cancer. - davodavo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The way "Top X" lists generally work is that the higher numbers are ranked below the lower numbers. Hence, the Wii is ranked higher than the hard drive.
- adragons, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7@thatsmyaibo,
And mac sites aren't biased? - krinthekuz, on 09/16/2008, -0/+3sorry, correction: the SSD is an actual flash based 2.5in laptop hard drive... not some unusable secure digital card. either way, the rest is still mostly overpriced overhyped trash.
- MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Uh. The ribbon IS pretty innovative.......Have you ever seen a piece of software use a totally different interface like that effectively? I haven't.
- mindsnare, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@spew120
for starters, Parallels is still in Beta, so even if it did crash every once in a while, it is to be kinda expected. Secondly, you need to check your Mac's setup, because I have Parallels running constantly on another virtual desktop, and I don't even notice it's there until I have to use it, since the latest version I think it's crashed on me 3 or so times, and I go days without a reboot, and it was mainly because I was messing around with the Virtual Desktops.
Parallels is innovative, sure there's plenty of other VMware style apps out there, but this was the first one to take advantage of the mac's new hardware situation, Virtual PC is a pile of crap, and boot camp is just a partition. But all I can say is as a network admin with a mac that works in both mac and PC environments, parallels can't be beat, it's easily the most useful application I have on my Mac. - Dmitrik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Marked as lame. Where's the innovation? Oh yea, more "innovation" so we just spend more.
- rja5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2whoops...put this in the wrong place I think, digg newbie, sorry!
Re office 2007:
it is very productive that toolbar (ribbon), makes office a joy to use rather than a pain. Llots of other cool stuff in office as well like the open xml formats, very cool to see those opened up and becoming open standards - cmdrNacho, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8"The most striking change is a "ribbon" at the top of the interface that replaces the traditional cascading menus and taskbars, and can expose functions you never knew were there. Through the suite's handy new Live Preview feature, you can see how formatting changes, for example, will affect your document prior to your making them. You get greater XML-format support, too."
Either they misunderstand what innovation is , or they must have secured quite a bit of money from Microsoft. Actually this whole list is bullish. Marked as lame. - MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, they did replace all of the toolbars and menus with a totally different interface, reducing clutter, redundancy, totally shifting the way you actually interact with office (Other than the typing, obviously.)
I'd say so. - marinist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Perhaps eBooks in its present form will fail, but it's the way of the future. After working in college-level publishing for a decade, I understand all too well how publishers are dragging their heels into the digital age. The problem is, the digital age won't wait for them to catch up, and unless they find a way to develop and license their products in a digital medium, students will beat them at their own game. Many textbooks are already being scanned and distributed as pdfs, and I think the publishers will fight a losing battle by taking the riaa method against students. These publishers are unwilling to admit they have a problem with pricing their content, due to their bloated and inefficient editorial content development. I think many publishers will be overtaken by smaller, more efficient content developers with an eye for the future. That's why I've given the publishers my finger, and gone into interactive educational development. That's where the future is headed. (imo).
- n00bst3r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I was just glad we didn't have to see 20 Apple products on the list.
- nomore, on 10/12/2007, -7/+9Office 2007... is a tabbed toolbar innovative?
- EtherGnat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Office 2007 went gold on November 6, 2006, and was made available to business customers on November 30. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/nov06/11-062007OfficeRTMPR.mspx
Maybe you should have marked your comment as a beta ;) - EtherGnat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Release Candidates have been available for months, and relatively mature betas for much longer. They've had longer to evaluate Office 2007 than many of the other products on the list, including the Wii and PS3. I'm not saying I think it should be #1, but the argument they haven't had time to evaluate it is just lame.
- Siddhidecha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This kind of article is written just to merely fill in the number of pages in their magazine. There is no systematic criteria to determine which products are considered to be innovative. There are a lot of tech products out there that are clearly innovative, but they are not listed. Perhaps, the writer of this article has extremely limited knowledge in this field.
- Foot33333, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3This is stupid. Why is Microsoft Office 2007 #1? is it really that much more innovative than any other version of Office?
- rzrshrp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The author confuses innovation with evolution and it seems that websites are taking advantage of people's gravitation towards top n lists.
- thatsmyaibo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That wasn't my point, of course Mac sites are biased, but it was in response to the heading post.
- trollenlord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There are many nice new features that add productivity. For academics for instance there's the new awesome bibliography library that you can build. When you refer to an article, all you have to do is to point and click and there's a styling system (knows for instance what IEEE style guidelines recommend) that makes it look perfect for your PhD thesis. It has hundreds of these small gems that are actually new and work just great.
The interface isn't "just interface" either. The ribbon system is more natural, removes clutter and allows you to use features faster, easier and more conveniently. It's a killer application itself and really innovative. It's actually the most usable GUI ever made on any such complex application. - brandonpturner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why is the NuLooq on there? The Griffin Powermate is a much better design and VERY fluent in desktop management and multimedia interaction.
- Spikito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Obviously by a microsoft fanboy, having the PS3 on their is just plain insulting, come on guys, if the core duo made it, then why not AMD's 65nm release not make it? at least that wasnt copied.
- Petronski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@thesixthdesign: "and all the products are computer-based"
You're shocked that a PC magazine centered it's most innovative products list on computer products? WTF? - rindin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Who else closed this article after seeing Office 2k7 at #1?
I know they've really changed the *****, but MOST innovative product of the year!?> - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think that e-ink could have a lot of potential in the future. Maybe not many people like e-books, however newsfeeds could be very popular with the mainstream once the price lowers.
- mfratt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Olympus Evolt E330 was introduced in 2004. The more recent E-500 was released in Sep 2005, which I just bought for $800 with 2 lenses (14-45 and 40-150). Something tells me that the E330 isn't exactly the 14th best innovative product of 2006.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Should have made the list next year, not this year :)
- kronix2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Office 2007 as the most innovative product? Take away the shiny new interface and you have something which isn't that much different to Office 2003.
- greendigger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dude....the list is from PC World website, what else you expect them to list on there website, most innovative hair dryers???
- greendigger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's already being sold to Big Businesses and being released in Jan'07 for everybody else.
- sparc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, I went to the site with a little curiosity... but when I noticed it was done by PCWorld, my stay time on the site was shortened substantially. PCWorld sucks.. always has.
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