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Windows 7 demo: Window management
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Top five blogs of 2008
ZDNet Editor in Chief Larry Dignan counts down the most popular tech blog posts based on traffic for the year. Watch the video to find out which were the top five.
>> Welcome to ZDNet's year in review, and our five most popular blog posts based on traffic. Let's start our countdown. Number five. At the turn of 2008, it appeared that Blue Ray was the clear victor in the DVD format wars. Robin Harris, our resident storage guru, begs to differ. He predicts that Blue Ray's in a death spiral, and even a hundred and fifty dollar players won't save it. Harris effectively argues that Blue Ray doesn't have the mass volume you'd expect from a format war winner. Number four, Bill O'Reilly's website gets hacked. Instead of the no spin zone, perhaps O'Reilly's motto should be the no security zone. In September, Dan inaudible outlined how O'Reilly's website had been hacked. The attackers, who prefer to call themselves hacktivist, disseminated personal details and passwords of members of O'Reilly's site. In the end, O'Reilly's web crew left the password and other data unencrypted. Oops. Number three, multiple takes on Windows Vista. Depending on your point of view, Vista is either not so bad, a complete disaster, or something in between. I'd put it in the in between category. Vista was a train wreck in the beginning, has gotten better, but now the name is clearly tainted. Number two, Ubunti's assumed spelling hearty inaudible beta was our second most popular item on ZDNet. Initially I put this open source OS in the early adopter super geek category. But it works just swell for the rest of us too. I have it on one of my laptops and have no complaints. But we're still far away from mass adoption. And number one, Ed Bot's assumed spelling ten favorite Windows programs of all time was our most popular blog post this year. Why was this interesting? Ed has been fiddling with Windows for nearly two decades. When he finds a program and sticks with it, that's really saying something. What's truly comical is that most of his picks you probably haven't heard of. How many of us have said I can't wait to get the process explorer, or fine print dispatcher. There you have it, the top five blog posts for 2008. We'll see what 2009 brings.