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创新的强烈愿望是永远不可能被抑制的:只要看一看我们的年度技术卓越奖获奖产品,就足以使你对此深信不疑。毫无疑问,大量人员被解雇、企业预算大幅度被削减使得业界在过去的这一年遭受了很大的打击。尽管2002年的经济发展确实很糟糕,但是计算机工业并未被吓倒,而是继续保持着前进的势头,推出了颇具特色的新产品和极富创造力的新技术。在此,我们评选出了过去一年中在13种产品类别中脱颖而出的佼佼者。在评选出的33种产品中,无论是获奖者还是入围者,在技术上都十分出色。今年,我们见到了更快、更小和更高效的计算机,更酷的移动产品,等等。虽然技术发展的速度有所放缓,但是我们的编辑们仍然每天忙于参加厂商的会议、接听电话,当然,还有潮涌般的、宣传新硬件和新软件的电子邮件。这甚至可能会让你对现在的时局产生乐观的错觉。和往年一样,为今年的技术卓越奖选定入围者和获奖者仍然是个令人兴奋的过程。取得评选资格的产品必须是在2001年9月到2002年9月之间发布的。8月末,我们的编辑部和实验室人员对给业界带来最大影响的产品、协议和人物进行了提名。9月份,我们讨论了哪些是真正具有创新性,哪些是仅仅应该获得我们的“2002年最佳产品奖”—我们将在下一期杂志上刊登。
The strong desire for innovation can never be dampened: Just having a look at our award-winning product of the annual Technology Excellence Awards is enough to convince you. Undoubtedly, a large number of personnel were dismissed and the drastic reduction of corporate budgets has caused the industry to suffer a great blow in the past year. Despite the really bad economic development in 2002, the computer industry has not been intimidated. Instead, it has continued its momentum and introduced distinctive new products and innovative new technologies. Here, we have selected the best of 13 product categories in the past year. Out of the 33 selected products, both the winners and the finalists are technically very good. This year we saw faster, smaller and more efficient computers, cooler mobile products, and more. Although technology has slowed down, our editors are still busy daily with vendor conferences, answering calls and, of course, tidal wave emails about new hardware and new software. It may even give you an optimistic feeling about the current situation. As in previous years, the selection of finalists and winners for this year’s Technology Excellence Awards is still an exciting process. Products eligible for selection must be released between September 2001 and September 2002. At the end of August, our editorial staff and laboratory staff nominated products, agreements and personalities that had the most impact on the industry. In September, we discussed what are truly innovative and which ones should deserve our “Best Product of the Year 2002” award - we’ll be covering the next issue of the magazine.