PC Pro's review of 2007: July - December

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By Stuart Turton

Posted on 17 Dec 2007 at 23:24

November was also the month competitiveness minister Stephen Timms met with leading telecoms executives to discuss Britain's broadband future. Timms had earlier mooted the idea of the government part funding a fibre-to-the-home solution, though with BT touting its 21CN network and Ofcom loudly sceptical about fibre no-one was holding their breath on a compromise being reached.

December

December was a particularly chilly month for Facebook, which was forced to apologise to users after being bombarded by protests following the introduction of a web monitoring feature that notified users' friends when they visited affiliated websites.

It was the latest in a string of setbacks for the company, which had already been investigated for not removing users profiles and bombarding its users with ads. Despite that, Microsoft still saw fit to invest £120 million in the company for a 1.6% stake, valuing the social networking site at a cool £7.5 billion.

And, is if to prove the old adage that the more things change, the more they stay the same, December closed as January opened with Microsoft and the XO hitting the headlines. The software giant admitted it was working on putting XP on the XO, ensuring that even children in developing nations know what a blue screen of death is.