{"id":411,"date":"2009-01-02T09:39:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T09:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2009\/01\/02\/a-look-back-at-2008-and-a-look-ahead-to-2009.aspx"},"modified":"2009-01-02T09:39:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T09:39:49","slug":"a-look-back-at-2008-and-a-look-ahead-to-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back at 2008 and a Look Ahead to 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>With 2008 drawing to close, Microsoft is at a crossroads between its past and the cloud computing future. But that doesn&#8217;t mean that the software giant&#8217;s most traditional products won&#8217;t continue to impact us in the year ahead. Today, I&#8217;d like to take a short side trip and look both back at 2008 and ahead to the year that&#8217;s coming.<\/p>\n<p>First, let&#8217;s reflect a bit on the year that&#8217;s now coming to a close. I primarily cover Microsoft, of course, so I will focus on what I consider to be the top 10 most important Microsoft product releases of the year. Here they are, in alphabetical order.<\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/server\/retro_2008.asp\" href=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/server\/retro_2008.asp\">http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/server\/retro_2008.asp<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 2008 drawing to close, Microsoft is at a crossroads between its past and the cloud computing future. But that doesn&#8217;t mean that the software giant&#8217;s most traditional products won&#8217;t continue to impact us in the year ahead. Today, I&#8217;d like to take a short side trip and look both back at 2008 and ahead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}