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    Cover Story: 25 Years of PC Week/eWEEK

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    February 26, 2009
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      1Cover Story: 25 Years of PC Week/eWEEK

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      by Debra Donston

      21984

      2

      PC Week makes its debut.

      31985

      3

      With the Token-Ring LAN, 260 PCs could be linked over twisted-pair cabling.

      41986

      4

      An important day in e-mail history: Competing mail services—in this case, MCI Mail and CompuServe—link up.

      51987

      5

      The “Seeing the Future through Microsoft’s Windows” headline turned out to be prescient.

      61988

      6

      PC Week’s tagline changes from “The National Newspaper of IBM Standard Microcomputing” to “The National Newspaper of Corporate Microcomputing.”

      71989

      7

      IBM’s SAA era was short-lived, as industrywide standardization—as well as the client/server model—took hold.

      81990

      8

      PC Week’s tagline changes again, from “The National Newspaper of Corporate Microcomputing” to “The National Newspaper of Corporate Computing.”

      91991

      9

      The IBM/Apple pairing didn’t happen, but a brave new world was being born: the World Wide Web.

      101992

      10

      IBM and Microsoft officially end their cooperative work on operating systems development.

      111993

      11

      ‘Outsider’ Lou Gerstner takes IBM reins.

      121994

      12

      Microsoft’s Windows 95 delay is one of many OS twists and turns that will bedevil enterprise IT managers in the years to come. 1994 was also notable as the year PC Week launched its Web site, www.pcweek.com.

      131995

      13

      IBM’s acquisition of Lotus gets a thumbs-up from IT.

      141996

      14

      In 1996, the Web enters the mainstream. Java takes off, but end users balk at thin-client computing.

      151997

      15

      Improved search and browser technology combine to make doing business on the Web more effective.

      161998

      16

      Compaq acquires Digital Equipment Corp., but, in hindsight, the bigger story is the smaller headline at lower right.

      171999

      17

      1999 marked PC Week’s 15th anniversary. But IT professionals probably remember it better for the remediations put into place to avoid a Y2K meltdown. In the end, disaster didn’t happen.

      182000

      18

      The issue dated May 8, 2000, marked the change from PC Week to eWEEK. The change was made to reflect broader technology coverage as well as the shift to Web-based computing.

      192001

      19

      The tragedy of 9/11 touched us all. eWEEK’s reporters and editors attempted to provide a measure of perspective on the events, and on the security, disaster recovery and business continuity planning systems that took on new meaning and importance in their wake.

      202002

      20

      eWEEK Labs’ tests of gear based on the then-nascent 802.11a spec show that wireless networking has the performance—not to mention easier setup and manageability—to support corporate apps.

      212003

      21

      Before SAAS—and Salesforce.com—became household (or at least corporate-hold) names.

      222004

      22

      The Labs pitted Microsoft Office against the open-source OpenOffice.com under real-world conditions. File format issues were a chief concern.

      232005

      23

      The calm before the Vista storm.

      242006

      24

      The greening of IT begins …

      252007

      25

      Companies face an increase in zero-day attacks.

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