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IT Week's 10th Birthday Special

IT Week is celebrating its 10th anniversary this week. To mark this milestone we’ve put together these features, which look back over some of the biggest IT developments of the past decade, and ahead to what the next 10 years might bring

Written by IT Week staff

IT Week: a decade on
Editor Madeline Bennett introduces the special birthday content, and points out that while the past decade has seen huge technological change, in many areas we haven’t moved on at all

That was then, this is now
Strategy editor David Neal takes a look back at some of the people and events that earned a place in our inaugural issue, and outlines what happened next

Rise of the handhelds
Technical editor Daniel Robinson outlines the rapid advances in mobile technology over the past decade

IT threats past and present
Comparing the 1998 and 2008 Information Security Breaches Surveys casts light on the changing threat landscape

Prescient IT punditry
News editor Gareth Morgan considers what was on IT manager minds back in 1998, which was mergers, upgrades and wireless apparently

So what will the next 10 years bring?
We talked to industry experts from BT, the Chartered Management Institute, the Technology Strategy Board and analysts Gartner and AMR Research how they saw technology and the role of the IT director changing in the future. The feedback was then fed through our patented Hype-o-meter to assess its reliability

The future of IT: Insider view
Industry experts give their predictions on the next 10 years of technology development

Alone after all this time
Our much cherished columnist Guy Kewney reminds us of how he came to join the team, by accident

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