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The year 2008 have been of many ups and downs in the technology industry with companies like Apple, Google making some great impressions in the industry. It was a year of credit crunch largely felt on world's biggest developed economies which include US and UK. Even then there were some great tech releases from one of the very well known companies around the world which are further disscussed below.
- One of the biggest hits came from the Apple factory, the famous iPhone which once again proved that Apple is indeed the leader in innovative and creative interfaces. The iPhone 3G had major improvements over its former flagship of iPhone. Even the price of the handset was reduced in almost everywhere which also made it an affordable and not to be missed device.
- Some great hits and misses from Google this year with the launch of Android operating system on a HTC phone from T Mobile called G1 which created some good reviews but was not a hit with the masses as did not have the looks in it to sell. Secondly there was a new browser calld Google Chrome which once again highlighted a great innovation from them. And then the biggest failure of Google came up which was similar to Second Life called as Google Lively which was scrapped even before getting some rave reviews from the media.
- And then the Microyahoo agenda that was the mother of all the news in the tech industry. Microsoft failed twice in acquiring Yahoo (taking a stake of 60%) which resulted in a resignation from Jerry Yang from the post of CEO and becoming the chief of Yahoo. As of now there is no one who has replaced him and the position is still vacant. Lets see who will be the lucky one to take over the CEO chair. Then there was Sean Suchter, VP of Search, Yahoo who was hired by Microsoft to gain an upper hand against Google.
- And then the saga continues from the stable of Microsoft with its Vista operating system facing much criticism from the tech industry professionals, home users and from almost everyone involved in the usage of Windows Vista. They tried to rectify it by realeasing a service pack within 1 year of the actual release of the OS, but even that failed. As of now they are testing the beta version of service pack 2 for Vista which they claim that it will solve almost all the issues (lets wait and see what happens) and will be released much before the release of the next version of OS ie. Windows 7.
- Last but not the least again from Microsoft , a new operating system which is expected to be released by the end of 2009 has gained some positive reviews from the beta testing community. Till now the builds that have been released so far of Windows 7 is very stable and reliable both in speed and performance as compared to Windows Vista. The interface has been greatly enhanced by introduction of Aero Peek and AeroSnap and the introduction of ribbon interface in both MSPaint and Wordpad - same interface as in Office 2007.
All the views expressed above are my own and does not reflect any authoritative agency or authority. Please feel free to leave your comments on this article.
About The Author
Farooq Ahmed is a technology writer who reveiws latest technology innovations especially related with Google and Microsoft and many other tech companies who has or will be transforming the face of technology in the coming years. I currently run a website related with the latest Tech news at http://www.technology-portal.com and u can email me at farooq@technology-portal.com
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