Microsoft Subnet: a look back at 2009, forward to 2010
The editors and bloggers that make up the Microsoft Subnet community wish you and your loved ones a happy holiday season and best wishes for a great 2010. We’ll be taking a short hiatus from December 24 through January 3. We’ll be back on January 4 bringing you more news, blogs, podcasts, opinion and discussions about Microsoft. As has become a holiday tradition, I have assembled a quirky list of Holiday 2009 resources for your reading pleasure this week.
Year-in-review stuff …
Most popular Microsoft Subnet blog posts in 2009.
- Windows 7 Will Not Sway XP Users
- 12 killer freebie SharePoint add-ons
- Microsoft Linux: Why one free software advocate wants it
- How To Dual Boot Vista and Windows 7
- Watch out Microsoft: GNOME is poised to have a killer 2010
- Microsoft, researchers release new operating system project: Barrelfish
- Why Windows 7 will crush Linux
- Intel CPU cache poisoning: dangerously easy on Linux
- 5 Reasons Macs Can’t Claim They’re Better than Windows 7
- Using Linux for a crummy WAN connection to test W7’s Branch Cache
Most popular Microsoft news stories on Network World in 2009
- Microsoft submits Hyper-V source code to Linux kernel
- Microsoft announces $250,000 Conficker worm bounty
- Europe charges Microsoft with abuse of monopoly again
- Microsoft Windows on a mainframe?
- Ex-Microsoftie: Free software will kill Redmond
A list of the most important Microsoft products released in 2009.
- No. 13: Zune HD
- No. 12: Windows Mobile 6.5
- No. 11: Office Web Apps
- No. 10: Microsoft Security Essentials
- No. 9: Silverlight 3
- No. 8: Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack R2 2009:
- No. 7: Exchange 2010:
- No. 6: Internet Explorer 8
- No. 5: Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2:
- No. 4: Windows Server 2008 R2:
- No. 3: Hyper-V Linux device driver
- No. 2: Bing
- No. 1: Windows 7 (what else)?
Feel good stories during the season of goodwill-toward-others
Microsoft employees, in part thanks to a donation-matching program from the company, give more than $70 million to charity in 2009.
Microsoft employees donate 950 kits for AIDS caregivers
Gifts for yourself?
Shopping doesn’t end when the gifts are opened. Post Christmas deals are sometimes the best. If you didn’t get that Windows 7 PC you wanted, here’s a list of some on sale (at least as of Dec. 23).
Celebrating the New Year
- Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform is set to go live on New Year’s Day.
- How to create guilt-free New Year’s resolutions that will actually work for you.
- The Top 30 business New Year’s resolutions (there’s something in there for everyone … such as my personal favorite, “I will not let e-mail rule my day.”)
- Ten career-related New Year’s resolutions
- Countdown to the Rose Bowl Parade (which starts January 1 at 8 a.m. PT).
- and last, but not at all least, the post-season college football bowl schedule which runs throughout December and the first week in January.
