PC Pro's biggest stories of 2007

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By Stuart Turton

Posted on 20 Dec 2007 at 14:31

As 2007 draws to a close we cast an eye over the stories that attracted the most clicks on the PC Pro website this year.

1. Asus stuns Computex with £100 laptop
Long before it was the reviewer's darling, the Asus Eee PC was already causing a stir on the PC Pro site. Our report from Computex of a £100 laptop, running Linux and weighing less than a hardback book, generated a lot of excitement among the tech community and swiftly made the story our biggest of the year.

2. Firefox:"We caught Microsoft asleep at the wheel"
With Firefox flying we caught up with Tristan Nitot president of Mozilla Europe, to get his thoughts on what had made the open-source browser so popular. In between lambasting Microsoft and explaining the secret of Firefox's success, he also gave us the low-down on the progress of Firefox 3. Clearly you liked what he had to say, because you made it our second biggest story of 2007.

3. BBC admits massive underestimate of Linux users
The BBC's attempt to palm off the Linux faithful with a stripped-down streaming version of the iPlayer might rank as one of the year's more unpopular moves, so when it subsequently claimed only 600 Linux users visited its site every week anyway, there were more than a few willing to argue the toss. As it turned out, the Beeb had gotten its figures ever-so slightly wrong, underestimating the true amount by around 97,000.

4. Facebook facing shutdown over "stolen code" claim
As the three-year court battle between Facebook and ConnectU drew to a close, news that a loss for Facebook could result in the site being shutdown had you clicking in droves. Facebook would ultimately triumph, with ConnectU failing to provide any evidence that its rival had stolen its code, leaving everyone free to poke, superpoke and ninja attack complete strangers at their leisure.

5. PC World offers free laptop with Orange broadband
When PC World announced it was giving away a free £300 laptop with Orange broadband packages it sounded too good to be true, and it was. However, by the time it took PC World to admit the free laptop was a limited offer and quietly drop the ad, we all had a nice time dreaming of free stuff and propelling this story to fifth place in our chart.

6. Evesham collapsed owing millions
While the convoluted collapse and rebirth of Evesham Technology captured your imagination this summer, it was the news that it had done so with bills of around £7 million that really stoked your interest. A quick root through the administrators' records revealed that the company had a list of creditors as long as your arm, including Microsoft, AMD and ViewSonic.