Special Edition: Top Stories of the Year 2009 [TECH UPDATE]

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DEAR READERS This special year-end edition highlights many of our top stories of the year. Tech Update Today will resume its regular publication schedule Monday, January 4, 2010. Happy New Year!
2009: A year to remember - or forget Windows 7, Oracle-Sun, Google, gadgets, cell phones, netbooks, browsers, Chrome, clouds, security, and the social revolution are just some of the top stories from 2009 as ZDNet takes a look back at the year in technology and how it affected you. Browse this newsletter or follow this link for some of the most useful and informative bits of data delivered this year by ZDNet's stable of bloggers, editors and producers. SEE FULL SPECIAL REPORT Top Picks of The Year Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap (or even free) Ed Bott: If you've read any reviews of Windows 7, you've seen references to its price list, which ranges from $120 for a Home Premium upgrade to $320 for a fully licensed copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. Well, guess what? You don't have to pay that much. READ FULL STORY Recommended Live Webcast: Delivering High Availability For Virtualized Data Centers Learn how to use the new features of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V to boost the availability of your virtualized data center. Benchmarks: Windows 7 RTM versus Vista, XP Now that the final version of Windows 7 has been released to manufacturing, it's time to find out how much of an improvement or not it will make over its predecessors, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Kai Schmerer of ZDNet Germany put all three operating systems under the microscope and here's what he discovered. READ FULL STORY Recommended On-Demand Webcast: Managing Large Objects in a DB2 for z/OS Environment Learn why large objects (LOBs) represent such a critical DB2 resource, plus tips and techniques for managing LOBs more efficiently and effectively. Windows 7 setup secrets Ed Bott shares seven of the lessons he's learned on the right and wrong ways to set up Windows 7, including a few setup secrets that even some Windows experts don't know about. READ FULL STORY Nine worst social media fails of 2009... thus far Jennifer Leggio: Social media has taken the marketing world by storm. Major agencies and internal divisions are hosting think tank sessions to try and come up with witty ideas to market their products and drive customer loyalty. Some of the ideas they come up with are great. But others, let's face it, are serious thuds. READ FULL STORY ZDNet Readers' Choice: Top 25 free, lightweight apps Andrew Nusca asked ZDNet readers what free, lightweight applications they simply can't live without. After tallying the suggestions in the comments and via e-mail - here are the 25 most popular. READ FULL STORY Featured TalkBack Blog of The Year Windows 7 beta 1 performance - How does the OS compare to Vista and XP? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How does Windows 7 beta 1 compare to Vista and XP in terms of performance? That's a question that's been hitting my inbox regularly. Let's see if we can't answer it! READ FULL BLOG How do you think Windows 7 compares to Vista and XP? Post Your Thoughts in TalkBack Elsewhere on ZDNet Top Photo Galleries The decade's 25 biggest tech flops slideshow After nearly 10 years of working at CNET, executive editor David Carnoy looks back at the most hyped tech products that didn't pan out as planned -- or just flat out bombed. VIEW THE GALLERY First look at Windows 7 beta 1 Boeing 787 Dreamliner's first flight 21 changes to look for in the Windows 7 Release Candidate Palm Pre device running Palm Web OS More Photo Galleries Top ZDNet Videocasts The lightbulb of the future? Silicon Valley's Luxim has developed a lightbulb the size of a Tic Tac that gives off as much light as a streetlight. WATCH THE VIDEO Sex, games and videotape Samsung introduces flat-panel wireless TV Windows 7 demo: Windows XP Mode Windows 7: A worthwhile upgrade? More ZDNet Videocasts	Top News and Blogs Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for May/Jun 09 Microsoft releases final Windows 7 system requirements Can you upgrade an old XP PC to Windows 7? Should you? PhotoSketch: better than sliced bread, Photoshop Swine Flu: Where to find virus, track outbreak, learn symptoms, more Six Vista annoyances fixed in Windows 7 How many Intel CPUs will fail the XP Mode test in Windows 7? All about Windows 7 Safari dominates browser benchmarks Obama's new BlackBerry: The NSA's secure PDA? How to recover accidentally deleted photos from a memory card (for free!) Will your Mac boot 64-bit Snow Leopard by default? Not unless it's an Xserve 7 reasons why Windows 7 will not wreck Ubuntu How to REALLY erase a hard drive Microsoft will allow Windows 7 users to downgrade to XP Videos and Podcasts Top five blogs of 2008 What were the top five stories that shaped 2009? From the launch of Microsoft's Windows 7 OS, to the departure and return of Steve Jobs to Apple, ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das and senior editor Sam Diaz share their views on the tech news that mattered most. WATCH THE VIDEO The decade in tech: Top 5 stories of the 00s CBSNews.com Executive Editor Charles Cooper talks to ZDNet Editor in Chief Larry Dignan about the five most important tech events of the decade and what they mean for the technology industry going forward. WATCH THE VIDEO Tech predictions for 2010 What will be the big trends that will capture the attention of techies in 2010? ZDNet Editor in Chief Larry Dignan talks to senior editor Sam Diaz about the tech themes and product announcements they're keeping an eye on. 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