For me... some of the best tech items of the naughties would have to be the following:
- Windows XP, excellent, clean, hassle free OS
- LCD monitors, lighter than CRTs, requires less space, easier to look at
- MP3 players, all that music on a little hand held device!!

Some of the worst things i have ever encounted would have to be:
- Vista, worst than ME, it was so hard to use, and still is
- unreliable HDD's, all that data. GONE!!!
- Prescott based Xeons, Seriously. The performance was laughably bad. They were an embarresment to Intel.

Years - Date Version of a Year.
1 - 2000
2 - 2001
3 - 2002
4 - 2003
5 - 2004
6 - 2005
7 - 2006
8 - 2007
9 - 2008
10 - 2009

That's a total of 10 years.

I know it's slightly odd since we start off counting at 0, but that's the same as birth years too. We live our first year and it's called 0, during our 2nd year we are called 1, and so on.

Hope this is of some help, and I really hope I've not gotten it wrong but the curse of the internet will probably mean I have made the error I was trying to correct! ;-)

Even though you're running an IT site (which should require a somewhat high education in maths), it looks like simple arithmetics, that children learn when they're about FIVE, are still way above your level.
HELLO???? Please, count the first ten natural numbers: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and TEN! So, will you please take notice that the decade will finish NEXT YEAR?
Admitting I'm wrong and you're right (which is as likely as me forking out money...), there would two nice consequences from your reasoning:
a) the first decade would count only nine years, going from year 1 AD to year 9 AD (so it would actually be a NINEADE)
b) the first century would count only 99 years, from 1 AD to 99 AD... and again it would rather be a ninetynintury.

So, even if the rest of the (so-called) press tries to sell us this s..t, please don't offend our IT minds doing the same.

Actually, if you cut on best/worst of decade/century/millennium, that would be even better!

And now, go to sleep and enjoy your huge share of coal!

OMG, I'm off to tell my Dad a newspaper on the internet mentioned me. He will be proud, sort of.

This is the best tech thing this decade for me!

If I hadn't written such nonsense I could have boasted about this on my CV, but I can't! Fcuk it. ;-)

My favourite techs of the past 10 years:
GPS - Tomtom, but most in-car GPS are still piss poor and cost £1k-£2k.
SKY+ - I agreet, it is excellent.

Charlie D, I wish he would come back and do some Fact specials. What happened there?

Nick F - keeps the Friction going.

Is there a way to get some more insider scoops?

Yeah, I am so excited about this, yeah me!

Drashek, what you got to say about this?

there is STILL another year to go in the decade, dudes! The AD period started with year 1, not year 0. So the first millenium ended at the end of the year 1000 (start of year 1001). Ditto the second millenium ended at the end of 2000 (start of 2001). Likewise, centuries end at the end of a year ending in '00' (like at the end of 2000. Ditto, decades END at the end of a year ending in '0'. So there's another year to go, regardless of what you think!

Vista made me go to 10.5.6 and then snow leopard - how bad a tecnology of the noughties was vista if it creates turnpikes.

... for not linking to that V3 "sister site" for another inane best/worst article. It's good to see some actual writing on here for once.

The Inquirer has become a distinctly better site since that crazed nvidia bashing schizo charlie demerjian left i must say....

Compared to Snow Leopard, Win 7 is the Best OS release of the Decade. Someone isn't using it if they think it's not much better than Vista.

In the same way that the BAFTAs have a roll call of luvvies who've died that year, what about a list of the IT deceased* of the noughties?

Psion has to be in there (looking at all of its divisions - Dacom fell when modems got integrated, Infomedia fell when DAB stalled and Digital never got Conan off the ground), along with Symbian (or at least the Symbian that launched in 1998), perhaps Alan Sugar who no longer runs AMSTRAD, Palm, Netscape, Overclocking & Evesham, Marconi (especially after BT pushed them out of the 21CN kingsize bed), Compaq and, of course, Apple - who abandoned IT in favour of colourful plastic bits & bobs.

My name is Bob Monkfish, I invented this idea and I demand a statue of me to be placed on the fourth plinth if used.

* Dead or near as makes no difference

Ebay dosn't qualify as its' Over 10 years Old. Drashek Is Perfect Example of Why Al Quyeada LOST. Junior Pilot From First, Head'in 777 Straight into Glass Curtain thousand Feet Up? No, Mind of Millions of Wannas' Condensed into Eye Spot of Worm W/Glasses.

Try theINQ for Ten More Years, WithOut DRASHEK & You'll Still See graphene, Molecular 'Puters & McKinseys Still awaiting Extradition.

By then Drashek Will Probably Taken Hon Presidency from Jerry .

LaLa.