Special Edition: The Year in Review - Top Stories of 2009 [ZDNet Week in Review]

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DEAR READERS This special year-end edition highlights many of our top stories of the year. ZDNet Week in Review will resume its regular publication schedule Friday, January 8, 2010. Happy New Year!
2009: A year to remember - or forget Windows 7, Oracle-Sun, Google, gadgets, cell phones, netbooks, browsers, Chrome, clouds, security, and the social revolution are just some of the top stories from 2009 as ZDNet takes a look back at the year in technology and how it affected you. Browse this newsletter or follow this link for some of the most useful and informative bits of data delivered this year by ZDNet's stable of bloggers, editors and producers. SEE FULL SPECIAL REPORT Must-Read News Stories of The Year Windows 7's default UAC bypassed by 8 out of 10 malware samples Ryan Naraine: A recently conducted test by malware researchers reveals that eight out of ten malware samples used in the test, successfully bypassed Windows 7's default UAC (user access control) settings. READ FULL STORY Andrew Nusca: Conficker wakes up, updates, drops payload Recommended Have you made your New Year salary resolution? It's still not too late. Find out how much your peers are earning and manage your salary expectations for the year. IT professionals - Join activeTechPros and use the IT salary benchmark wizard to find out how much other IT professionals earn Business professionals - Join activeBizPros and use the salary benchmark wizard to compare salaries. Join us and access these services absolutely free! Firefox hit by multiple drive-by download flaws Ryan Naraine: Mozilla's flagship Firefox browser is vulnerable to at least 11 "critical" vulnerabilities that expose users to drive-by download attacks that require no user interaction beyond normal browsing. READ FULL STORY Microsoft exposes Firefox users to drive-by malware downloads 55,000 Web sites hacked to serve up malware cocktail Snow Leopard bug deletes all user data Jason D. O'Grady: Several posts on the Apple Support forums (1, 2) dating back to 12 September indicate that some users have been losing all their data due to a nasty bug in Snow Leopard, a.k.a. Mac OS 10.6. READ FULL STORY Snow Leopard update squashes bugs New ransomware attack blocks Internet access Ryan Naraine: Security researchers have stumbled upon a new piece of ransomware that blocks an infected computer from accessing the Internet until a fee is paid via SMS (text message). READ FULL STORY Facebook password-reset spam is Bredolab botnet attack Researchers find insecure BIOS 'rootkit' pre-loaded in laptops Recommended Have you made your New Year salary resolution? It's still not too late. Find out how much your peers are earning and manage your salary expectations for the year. IT professionals - Join activeTechPros and use the IT salary benchmark wizard to find out how much other IT professionals earn Business professionals - Join activeBizPros and use the salary benchmark wizard to compare salaries. Join us and access these services absolutely free! Top Picks of The Year Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap (or even free) Ed Bott: If you've read any reviews of Windows 7, you've seen references to its price list, which ranges from $120 for a Home Premium upgrade to $320 for a fully licensed copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. Well, guess what? You don't have to pay that much. READ FULL STORY Windows 7 setup secrets Six Vista annoyances fixed in Windows 7 Can you upgrade an old XP PC to Windows 7? Should you? All about Windows 7 Mary Jo Foley: Windows 8: More early clues start to emerge Benchmarks: Windows 7 RTM versus Vista, XP Now that the final version of Windows 7 has been released to manufacturing, it's time to find out how much of an improvement or not it will make over its predecessors, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Kai Schmerer of ZDNet Germany put all three operating systems under the microscope and here's what he discovered. READ FULL STORY Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 - Strengths and weaknesses Windows 7 RC 32-bit vs. Vista SP1 32-bit - Gaming shootout Top Photo Galleries The decade's 25 biggest tech flops slideshow After nearly 10 years of working at CNET, executive editor David Carnoy looks back at the most hyped tech products that didn't pan out as planned -- or just flat out bombed. VIEW THE GALLERY First look at Windows 7 beta 1 Boeing 787 Dreamliner's first flight 21 changes to look for in the Windows 7 Release Candidate Palm Pre device running Palm Web OS More Photo Galleries Will your Mac boot 64-bit Snow Leopard by default? Not unless it's an Xserve Jason D. O'Grady: If the current developer seed (build 10A432) of Snow Leopard is indeed the Golden Master version (as has been highly rumored) only Xserves will be able to boot into 64-bit version of Mac OS 10.6 by default. READ FULL STORY Hold 6 and 4 keys at boot to enable 64-bit Snow Leopard Mac OS X Snow Leopard: What price? The $200 "Mac" Ubuntu Karmic Koala launches Dana Blankenhorn: Ubuntu 9:10, known as Karmic Koala, has officially been launched at Ubuntu. It comes in desktop and server editions, which have been getting wildly different reviews. READ FULL STORY Gallery: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Will Ubuntu remain a minor player 7 reasons why Windows 7 will not wreck Ubuntu Christopher Dawson: Yes, Ubuntu can absolutely be the default Windows alternative Dana Blankenhorn: The Linux laptops of 2009 Featured TalkBack of The Year Windows 7 beta 1 performance - How does the OS compare to Vista and XP? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How does Windows 7 beta 1 compare to Vista and XP in terms of performance? That's a question that's been hitting my inbox regularly. Let's see if we can't answer it! READ FULL BLOG How do you think Windows 7 compares to Vista and XP? Post Your Thoughts in TalkBack Google's Chrome OS: Will you give up desktop apps? Larry Dignan: Google released the Chrome OS to the open source community, laid out its security vision and promised to deliver a simple operating system. READ FULL STORY Sam Diaz: Live from Googleplex: Chrome OS details revealed Rachel King: Google Chrome OS has arrived as free VMWare download Gallery: Chrome OS revealed Acer announces first Google Chrome OS netbook Droid Preview: iPhone's first real competition has arrived Jason D. O'Grady: I've been testing the new Droid mobile phone from Motorola running on Verizon Wireless for a couple of days and have to admit to being impressed by way the new handset has filled many of the gaps left by the iPhone. READ FULL STORY Motorola DROID on Verizon: Is this the iPhone killer you're looking for? Jason Perlow: My First Week With DROID Gallery: Droid vs. iPhone - battle of the screens Gallery: Droid by Motorola and Verizon Wireless Special Coverage: DROID takes on iPhone Top ZDNet Videocasts The lightbulb of the future? Silicon Valley's Luxim has developed a lightbulb the size of a Tic Tac that gives off as much light as a streetlight. News.com's Michael Kanellos talks to the company about its technology and its plans to expand into various markets. WATCH THE VIDEO Sex, games and videotape Samsung introduces flat-panel wireless TV Windows 7 demo: Windows XP Mode Windows 7: A worthwhile upgrade? More ZDNet Videocasts ZDNet Readers' Choice: Top 25 free, lightweight apps Andrew Nusca asked ZDNet readers what free, lightweight applications they simply can't live without. After tallying the suggestions in the comments and via e-mail - here are the 25 most popular. READ FULL STORY Ed Bott: My 10 favorite Windows programs of all time	More Top News and Blogs The "no bull" guide to Conficker -- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes Pigs do fly: Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines of Linux code-- Mary Jo Foley The Web's most dangerous keywords to search for -- Dancho Danchev Nine worst social media fails of 2009... thus far -- Jennifer Leggio Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for May/Jun 09 -- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes PhotoSketch: better than sliced bread, Photoshop -- Andrew Mager Microsoft to laid-off workers: Give us back our money -- Sam Diaz Swine Flu: Where to find virus, track outbreak, learn symptoms, more -- Andrew Nusca Obama's new BlackBerry: The NSA's secure PDA? -- Declan McCullagh Oracle buys Sun; Now owns Java; Becomes a hardware player -- Larry Dignan Microsoft will allow Windows 7 users to downgrade to XP -- Mary Jo Foley Shocking discovery harnesses free energy -- Harry Fuller Hackers steer clear of Google Chrome, say too challenging -- Garett Rogers Is IE8 really fat and slow? -- Ed Bott Icahn to resign from Yahoo board -- Sam Diaz New Technologies Sponsored White papers Have you made your New Year salary resolution? It's still not too late. Find out how much your peers are earning and manage your salary expectations for the year. IT professionals - Join activeTechPros and use the IT salary benchmark wizard to find out how much other IT professionals earn Business professionals - Join activeBizPros and use the salary benchmark wizard to compare salaries. Join us and access these services absolutely free! Oracle's Journal of Management Excellence: Building Trust. Free Download Read compelling insights on why rebuilding trust is key to ending the recession, and how performance management can help restore consumer confidence. Free White Paper: Top 10 Strategies for Managers of Mobile Workers Discover how to measure, manage and build relationships with your distributed employees and teams in today?s increasingly mobile work environment. On-Demand Videocast: Web Conferencing, The Power of Show Plus Tell Examine the true potential of Web conferencing, using cost-effective Web-based solutions to improve collaboration and reduce your travel costs. Video White Paper: Speeding and Enhancing Load Testing Cycles Quickly uncover Web application performance limitations--and determine their impact on end users? with revolutionary Rapid Bottleneck Identification. More white papers: Most popular papers Recently added papers Most popular papers by industry More Popular Resources 10 things you should know about moving from Windows XP to Windows 7 Windows Vista IPConfig Gadget Windows XP SP3 services that can be disabled 10 mistakes that rookie IT consultants make 10 ways to recover a corrupted Excel workbook Videos and Podcasts Top 5 stories of 2009 What were the top five stories that shaped 2009? From the launch of Microsoft's Windows 7 OS, to the departure and return of Steve Jobs to Apple, ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das and senior editor Sam Diaz share their views on the tech news that mattered most. WATCH THE VIDEO The decade in tech: Top 5 stories of the 00s CBSNews.com Executive Editor Charles Cooper talks to ZDNet Editor in Chief Larry Dignan about the five most important tech events of the decade and what they mean for the technology industry going forward. WATCH THE VIDEO Tech predictions for 2010 What will be the big trends that will capture the attention of techies in 2010? ZDNet Editor in Chief Larry Dignan talks to senior editor Sam Diaz about the tech themes and product announcements they're keeping an eye on. WATCH THE VIDEO Play more video and audio Most Popular Downloads Recover Files 3.21 Recover permanently deleted files from hard disks and removable media. License: Free Platform: Windows   System Explorer 1.5 This full-featured system analyzing tool lets you take a sneak peek at everything that's going on in your system. License: Free Platform: Windows AVG LinkScanner 8.5.361 AVG LinkScanner is the most effective protection against poisoned web pages. License: Free Platform: Windows   TweakNow PowerPack 2009 1.6.4 A fully-integrated suite of utilities that let you fine-tune every aspect of your computer's operating system and Web browser. License: Free Platform: Windows Free Fire Screensaver 2.00.120 This nifty screensaver sets your desktop ablaze. Each item on your desktop - including icons and all open windows will appear to catch on fire, glowing and emitting a smoke effect. License: Free Platform: Windows
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