[pfletcher]

you do realise you are late for April Fools Day? - this article will mark the day that PCWorld Magazine sunk to levels of mediocrity hitherto reserved for the National Enquirer

[KellieCM]

Again (and for the third time in this thread), we produce the awards mid-year because we used to give out actual awards at a PC World tradeshow at this time of the year. We no longer do the tradeshow, but we still give out the awards.

[kellyg]

Tradition is your best excuse for this absurdity? Wow. Amazing that no one has thought about moving the Best of 2008 to the December issue. PC World has just jumped the shark. How about retitling this simply "Our favorites so far" and take the year out of the title?

[redofromstart]

And where in the title does it say "best American-only products"?

[Ampirate]

Bah, some I agree with, some not. iChat above Pandora? I'm sorry.

[textmonkey]

Firefox 3 is listed under the last category, Wireless Routers...
shelley

[assembler]

Half of this list are SERVICES and not a product and should not be included.

[ernesto4160]

Wasn't Leopard one of your 25 greatest dissapointments of 2007?

[Phyrie]

Oh my, typical American arrogance.... I was excited to think I would be able to access high-quality videoat Hulu... Nope, just for the Americans. Do you all really think you're the only ones in the world?? Damn, that psses me off. Not at the site, who can choose whomever they like to access their site, but to PCW for misleading us, yet again, in thinking they are representing us all, when in reality they represent American readers only. Even a disclaimer, before I go rushing off to waste time and energy, that the sites you so blithely recommend are US only would be appreciated. But no.... sigh* I haven't even looked at the rest of the list...
Should I bother?
Phyrie

[Bans]

Hulu? Really? I guess its ok if your an American who just learned how to check e-mail. I'm honestly disapointed in PCWORLD.

[ch1d3th]

"The products that were the most fun, offered the most productivity gain, or the ones that made everyday stuff easier"


How about Digsby? Hell, it even came out in 2008. It is revolutionizing instant messaging by integrating social networking and being completely cross-platform, without being bloated and is making the previous top messaging clients sweat. If iChat is on here, Digsby should heftily outrank it.

[dnyhan]

So many of these applications/products are available to the US only.
I wasted lots of time reading the article and getting excited about these products.
I am so enraged!!
ARGGGGHHH!!! FEEL MY RAAAAGGE!!!!

[stuck008]

Why dont you have the Drudgereport listed. The Drudge site gets far more hits then any of the "news sites" you listed.

[chriahx2]

So some IDIOT thinks VISTA should be in the top 100 best products of 2008? He must be insane and an escapee from a mental institution if he thinks VISTA is even worth a mention. That system has had more problems than any other edition of Windows since the 1st edition. 8 out of 10 people have negative issues with it, that is IMO but with all the bad press it has gotten and the rotten reviews it has received, if this list HAD have included VISTA I would not have even bothered to read anything beyond that. The composers of this list, like most of the uses of VISTA all agree it was a big big FLOP, you must be a hard core Microsoft fan. Well sorry to say, MACINTOSH IS BETTER, it always was, It STILL IS and it ALWAYS WILL BE!!!!!

[michaeldunage]

Great list. We are in 2009, so it makes sense as a review for 08. Another good resource on finance articles