Another year is going to say good bye to us and its been an eventful year for me. For me, this year started off in the worst possible manner, in the causality of a hospital. Sitting there, I thought it was not a good omen and expected lot of worst things in the days ahead. But to my surprise it turned out to be one of the most interesting time in my life. I ventured in to many new things like blogging, got involved with a technical community, delivered a presentation on WP7 and so on. My blog was up and running this and got over a thousand visitors. A big thank you to all and expects a lot in the coming years also.
Also my long cherished dream of having an SLR was finally fulfilled this year by a friend of mine who bought it from overseas. Then there were a lot of weekend getaways with my friends from college and office. This year also helped me to network with many people from Vijay Raj, an active blogger widely known as msigeek, Janakiraman from MS, Sreeju, Anoop aka AmazedSaint, Jairam, Ramprasanna, again a MS guy who is very familiar these days with this adventures in robotics, Anuraj, Shalvin, Yanesh, Saravana Kumar, Bijith, Safil, Shiju, Satheesh, Saleem and the list goes on. Thanks a lot guys, loved every second spent with you.
Speaking of technology, we experienced an eventful year. We finally the saw the uprising of tablets and smartphones which are poised to dethrone PC’s and laptops in the coming decade.Its that time of year when we take a stock of the developments happened in the past year and here from my perspective the end of the season accolades goes to……
Company of the Year – Facebook Inc
Finally Facebook is seen as a challenger to Google is now the second largest site behind Google and poised to overtake them in 2011. Recently FB announced their plans to create a new messaging platform which will finally replace email. As the year gone by, we had also seen many efforts from Google to tackle the rise of FB such as Buzz and Wave has failed miserably.
Flop of the Year – Microsoft Kin
MS released a series of phones targeting the youth this year and failed to caught the attention. After years of development at a cost of billions of dollars, Kin was released early this year and decided to discontinue by June because of poor sales.
Comeback of the Year – Windows 7
For the first time in its history, MS delivered an OS whose minimum requirements was less when compared to its predecessor, Windows Vista. After the failure of Vista, MS introduced many new features in Win 7 and instantly caught the imagination of the people. There is a perception about MS products is that their products are considered stable only after the first service pack is released. But Win 7 has changed all that and now more and more people are upgrading to Win 7 from XP without waiting for SP1.
Developer Tool of the Year – WP7 Developer Tools.
Again MS takes the plaudits in the section for creating a tool to develop, test and deploy applications for WP7. Because of its seamless integration with Visual Studio and Expression Blend reduced the time needed for acquainting with a new platform and its support for Silverlight and XNA framework helped the programmers to create applications with much ease.
Upcoming Trend – Tablets & Smartphones
Although these were available in the market for some time, introduction on iPad and popularity of iPhone and Android powered devices is slowly pushing the laptops and personal computers down the gadget stack. iPad has taken the world by storm and suddenly the sales of other tablets such as Amazon Kindle and Samsung Galaxy has shot up up. And also with more and more manufactures introducing Android based phones and MS foray into the smartphone market with WP7 has increased the sales considerably.
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