eWEEK: The Top Five Web Application Developments of the Year:

Opera 9

Maintaining its tradition as the most innovative Web browser of recent years, Opera 9 has once again set the bar high when it comes to new capabilities and improving and extending the experience of using the Web and the Internet.

SharePoint Portal Server 2007

Office SharePoint Server 2007 will be a welcome upgrade from previous versions of the platform, including a cornucopia of new template options for quickly building a wide variety of Web sites, portals and community pages as well as much-improved workflow and routing features

Word Press 2.05

The added ability to create a new category directly from the post-writing interface should be standard in any blogging system. An improved roles system for users replaces previous versions' bizarro level system, and the post preview area now actually reflects what posts will look like in the real blog.

FireFox 2.0

eWEEK Labs found Firefox 2.0 to have the greatest out-of-the-box usability of any Web browser that we have tested. From improvements in tabbed window management to built-in spell checking to integrated search aids, new features make it very easy for any user to take full advantage of modern Web browser capabilities.

IIS 7.0

The improvements in IIS 7 are all worthwhile, based on eWEEK Labs' tests, and should ease the task of managing and securing the Web server while making it possible to build rich and dynamic applications on top of it.

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