Top 10 technology stories for 2009

It's that time of year when we are all looking back to evaluate 2009. What can be categorized as the best of times and the worst? How can we learn from these and what can we change?

CIO magazine came up with one of the best lists we've seen: "Top 10 technology stories for 2009." And it pays tribute to a year of enormous change when the recession cut off many enterprising ideas, social networking came of age and some IT titans took risks in an ever-volatile market.

Here are a few of their top stories:

• Microsoft launches Windows 7, leaving Vista in the dust, thankfully.
• Microsoft buys Yahoo for $44.6 billion; a deal which includes Microsoft's Bing running Yahoo's search site. Are you listening, Google?
• Government 2.0 becomes a reality when President Obama takes office. Transparency is in, and information previously hidden in the government's dark, dank corners becomes easily accessible on the web.
• Steve Jobs makes a comeback again. He went on leave, received a liver transplant and came back to work. A pancreatic cancer survivor, he is a classic example of the bionic man.
• The social networking revolution: Twitter steps in as a communication tool that never existed before, providing real-time information around the world.

While all of the news articles may appear to be just a blip in your world, many of them may have an impact on your IT challenges in the future. It's like the well-known parable that says, a butterfly that flaps its wings in one part of the world may set off a tornado in another.

For more on best tech stories in 2009:
- see this CIO.com article

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