Ten Technology Letdowns of 2007

We had much to hail this year, including rising IT salaries and better virtualization tools, but we also sighed over IT products and ideas that fell short. H-1B visa reform? Not likely. "Spam king" arrested? Yeah, that was a big help. We can't wait to buy a Palm Foleo! (Um, never mind.) Has your business deployed Microsoft Vista? And while environmentalists cheer Al Gore's Nobel, the green IT movement looks like a crawl. Read on about what's got us feeling cheated this year. And since misery loves company, please add your own bubble bursts. Click here to add your own.

Cloudy Corporate Skies Over Microsoft Vista

One of the longest—five years!—and priciest development projects at Microsoft, the Vista OS has yet to penetrate enterprise computing in any major way. The corporate version shipped in late 2006, and 2007 was supposed to be Vista's march into the enterprise. But many IT leaders have called it a costly resource hog that makes them love Windows XP. Even Vista's much-touted security isn't helping. Now, some companies who've been waiting for the first service pack before deploying may skip Vista altogether due to lingering performance concerns.
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