Editor's blog: The top stories of 2007 may "make you glad to have a ringside seat on the technology industry," but as Editor in Chief Eric Knorr observes in this week's blog, InfoWorld is all about "spotting trends and analyzing events that other tech journalism outfits overlook." In the Top 10 underreported stories of 2007, "we've picked our sleepers carefully, with an eye toward stories we think will have lasting impact."

Blade servers: During the course of testing for InfoWorld's head-to-head comparison of three of the big four blade server vendors -- Dell, HP, and Sun (minus no-show IBM) -- "it became clear that the new crop of blade servers is a giant step up from the previous generation." Get the full story.

In the news: Microsoft is claiming that a data corruption bug in Windows Home Server crops up only when the system is under an "extreme load." Unsurprisingly, the news that Windows Home Server could corrupt files has raised a storm of criticism from customers and observers alike.

Posted by Caroline Craig on December 31, 2007 05:57 AM