2011: The year in words

"Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.

"Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple."

Apple, informing the world of the sad passing of company founder and industry figurehead Steve Jobs

November

"HP has secretly contracted with Intel to keep churning out Itaniums so that HP can maintain the appearance that a dead microprocessor is aliveThe whole thing is a remake of Weekend at Bernie's."

Oracle, accusing HP and Intel of plotting over Itanium.

December

"It was purely a predatory action."

Novell attorney Jeff Johnson, speaking at the final hurdle of a Novell vs Microsoft case, in which the former claimed the Redmond giant mislead it, resulting in multi-billion dollar losses.

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Maggie has been a journalist since 1999, starting her career as an editorial assistant on then-weekly magazine Computing, before working her way up to senior reporter level. In 2006, just weeks before ITPro was launched, Maggie joined Dennis Publishing as a reporter. Having worked her way up to editor of ITPro, she was appointed group editor of CloudPro and ITPro in April 2012. She became the editorial director and took responsibility for ChannelPro, in 2016.

Her areas of particular interest, aside from cloud, include management and C-level issues, the business value of technology, green and environmental issues and careers to name but a few.