Of course I’ll probably not remember everything, but for this Blog posting I thought I’d take a look back at some of the highlights I may have blogged about in 2008.

We looked at a lot of Notebooks, and 2008 was the year that the Netbook created a category and a niche all of its own. Being an early adopter, I missed out on some of the more recent and more powerful Netbooks running Windows XP. For the moment Netbooks are a force to be reckoned with – the consumer saying “No!” to overpriced, bloated Notebooks.

Consumers also said “No!” to bloated Operating Systems, and Windows Vista bore the brunt of it. After defending Vista for a while, Microsoft announced that they were working on Windows 7, the next Windows after Vista. It is hopeful except that Microsoft wants to keep it compatible with “changes” in Vista, whatever that means.
I put my money where my mouth was and ordered a new desktop machine with Microsoft Windows XP Professional pre-installed, paying more than I would for Vista.

Just after mid-year I moved from the iPod Touch to the iPhone, and discovered what all the fuss was about. The iTunes App store is also a major highlight.