There is a poll on Kaixin001: If you were to use one word to describe 2008, what would it be? More than half of the netizens chose "beyond words." Snow disaster, earthquake, Olympics... After experiencing great joy and sorrow, when we pause to look back at the IT industry in 2008 which rose and fell with the larger environment, how can we sum it up in one word? So let's put these ten keywords into our memory dictionary to commemorate this extraordinary 2008.
Blu-ray Reigns
War and peace are the world's eternal themes. But for the IT industry, war has always inevitably taken center stage.
Just as 2008 began, with the sound of the New Year's bell still ringing in our ears, the six-year-long format battle between Sony-backed Blu-ray and Toshiba-backed HD-DVD took an unexpected dramatic turn - Warner, the strongest supporter of HD-DVD, defected to Blu-ray, catching Toshiba off guard.