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The article “25 More Top Technologies” refers to CP/M and QDOS as “the spiritual and the actual parents, respectively, of what became MS-DOS” [Sept. 18]. Its sad to see CP/M, the operating system that helped establish the largest part of the PC market before the IBM PC, given the same status as QDOS, a functional […]

When eWeek Labs named 25 products as the most influential of the 25-year era of the PC (see “25 products define 25 years of personal computing” at eweek.com), we had regrets about important innovations that didnt make the 25-year cut or that didnt muster Top 25 scores in our rankings. Readers were even more vehement […]

To celebrate the 25th birthday of the IBM PC coming in August, eWEEK Labs considered assembling a Top 10 list of the most influential products that iconic machine ushered in. But we couldnt do it: A list that short omitted far too many innovations with far too great an impact to be ignored. Having agreed […]

The eWEEK Excellence Awards program focuses on tasks rather than technologies. Were not identifying the word processor of the year or the desktop database of the year. Rather, were looking from the top to the bottom of the enterprise IT stack and asking where innovation is focused in any year at every tier. That question […]

Regarding Jason Brooks April 3 article “eWEEK Labs Apple Birthday Bash”: While I dont disagree that Apples secrecy keeps us in the dark as to product road maps, its no worse (or perhaps better) than other enterprise computing manufacturers that have us performing 180s every time a product is announced, changed, recalled, delayed and so […]

The conversation revolves around Garcias first-out-of-the-block tests on 802.11n draft tests conducted on the Linksys WRT300N Wireless-N Broadband Router and WPC300N Wireless-N Notebook Adapter. Hear special commentary not already covered in the story packages available at eweek.com regarding upcoming specification meetings, recommendations for enterprise IT managers regarding testing new radio gear and more details about […]

Spring is here, baseball season has begun and new products have made their way to the benches of eWEEK Labs, where they will undergo rigorous testing and evaluation at the hands of our analysts. Among the new products on which testing has begun are: Salesforce Automation Applications: Michael Caton begins testing of products from The […]

Maybe there will be a year when we will be able to say, “You know, only good things happened in technology this year. There was only progress–no dirty tricks, no security breaches that could easily have been avoided, no making life harder for the end user.” Well, 2005 was not such a year. In fact, […]

Every year, the analysts at eWEEK Labs evaluate hundreds of enterprise products. The goal is to provide technology decision makers with a strong sense of direction as they navigate IT waters made choppy by hype, regulatory mandates, security concerns, competitive issues, budgetary and personnel constraints and, well, the list goes on and on. This year […]

Platform neutrality by defaultIts time for vendors and service providers to recognize that we live in a technologically diverse world, particularly when it comes to the Internet. Real security awarenessWe hope that 2004 is the year that companies take security seriously and treat it as an important part of their infrastructure—not just a cost center. […]

DMCA MisuseA number of organizations this year invoked the Digital Millennium Copyright Act—written to stave off Internet piracy—in an attempt to limit their competition. Whether theyll succeed remains to be seen. Product ActivationIn 2003, many software vendors introduced product activation schemes that inconvenienced and annoyed customers by working only some of the time and almost […]

Samba 3.0Version 3.0 of open-source Samba does a better job than ever of providing users with a replacement for Windows for file and print services—both as software that companies install and configure themselves and as a component that functions behind the scenes in products such as Mac OS X.—Jason Brooks See eWEEK Labs review of […]