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Today I just happen to read the the 100 Best Products of 2007 from PCWorld; and was surprised to see there is no Windows Vista in the list, instead Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Ubuntu 7.04 and Microsoft Office 2007 was there. Yahoo! has two products in the top slot, Yahoo! mail beta at 27 and Flickr at 44.

Good to see that Both Macbook Pro (at 82) and Parallels is in the top 100 list (at 6); and there is no VMWare fusion in the race; but VMWare player is at 77. Once the parallels start supporting Bootcamp vista and readyboost with high-speed USB capabilities, then you can see the real power of Parallels. I just received a next beta version (yet to release to public) from Parallels team, so time for me to play a bit to see how it performs.

Out of top 100, I use the following products as part of day to day life:

1. Intel Core 2 Duo (2)
2. RIM Blackberry 8800 (5)
3. Parallels Desktop (6)
4. Apple Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” (9)
5. Canonical Ubuntu 7.04 (16)
6. Samsung Blackjack (25)
7. Yahoo! Mail Beta (27)
8. Google Gmail (31)
9. Google YouTube (34)
10. Firefox 2 (35)
11. Flickr (44)
12. Apple iPod Nano (45)
13. Dell UltraSharp 2007WFP (47)
14. Microsoft Office 2007 (56)
15. Digg.com (58)
16. Apple iTunes (61)
17. Craigslist.org (68)
18. VMWare Player (77)
19. Apple MacBook Pro (82)
20. Microsoft Windows Media Player 11 (91)

Thats a good amount of 20% share from me too :). There are 2 products which I wanted to buy in coming days are Nintendo Wii and Sansa Connect.

From today 23rd April to 26th April, I will be attending MySQL 2007 users conference and expo in Santa clara. Mainly focussing on MySQL 5.x and HA related topics and to meet old MySQL fellow employees.