What is in this article?:
- 2012 Windows IT Pro Editors' Best and Community Choice Awards
- Best Active Directory/Group Policy Product
- Best Antivirus/Anti-Malware Product
- Best Auditing/Compliance Product
- Best Backup and Recovery Product
- Best Cloud Computing Product
- Best Deployment/Configuration Product
- Best Hardware: Server
- Best Hardware: Workstation
- Best Hardware: Portable Computer
- Best Hardware: Storage
- Best Hardware: Networking
- Best Hardware: Appliance
- Best High Availability Product
- Best Interoperability Product
- Best Management Suite
- Best Messaging Product
- Best Microsoft Product
- Best Mobile and Wireless Product
- Best Network Management Product
- Best Patch Management Product
- Best Scripting Tool
- Best Security Product
- Best SharePoint Product
- Best System Utility
- Best Systems Monitoring Product
- Best Task Automation Product
- Best Training Product or Service
- Best Virtualization Product
- Best Free Tool
- Best Vendor Tech Support
Our annual Windows IT Pro Editors' Best and Community Choice award programs give us a unique way to recognize the hottest products on the market for the current year. Our Editors' Best program highlights products that Windows IT Pro editors and contributors believe are worthy of recognition, whereas our Community Choice program lets readers like you decide which products are the best.
Our editors always face a challenge when choosing their Editors' Best favorites from such a competitive and multifaceted field. But we feel, as always, that this year's winners show an uncommon breadth of functionality and originality. As for Community Choice, we followed the same process as in previous years by opening up the Community Choice nomination process to all. We let you nominate your favorite products and services, built the voting survey from there, and let everyone participate in the final voting phase.
In these pages, you'll find our Gold, Silver, and Bronze Editors' Best winners in each category directly adjacent to your Community Choice winners. Sometimes our editors and readers have agreed on favorite products and services in a given category, but more often they haven't. Do you agree with the choices our editors have made? Or do the picks that our readers have made carry more weight? Let us know! Regardless of whether these winners were chosen by editors or readers, you can be sure that all these products are worthy of serious consideration if you're in the market for a new tool.
Our annual Windows IT Pro Editors' Best and Community Choice award programs give us a unique way to recognize the hottest products on the market for the current year. Our Editors' Best program highlights products that Windows IT Pro editors and contributors believe are worthy of recognition, whereas our Community Choice program lets readers like you decide which products are the best.
Our editors always face a challenge when choosing their Editors' Best favorites from such a competitive and multifaceted field. But we feel, as always, that this year's winners show an uncommon breadth of functionality and originality. As for Community Choice, we followed the same process as in previous years by opening up the Community Choice nomination process to all. We let you nominate your favorite products and services, built the voting survey from there, and let everyone participate in the final voting phase.
In these pages, you'll find our Gold, Silver, and Bronze Editors' Best winners in each category directly adjacent to your Community Choice winners. Sometimes our editors and readers have agreed on favorite products and services in a given category, but more often they haven't. Do you agree with the choices our editors have made? Or do the picks that our readers have made carry more weight? Let us know! Regardless of whether these winners were chosen by editors or readers, you can be sure that all these products are worthy of serious consideration if you're in the market for a new tool.
- Best Active Directory/Group Policy Product
- Best Antivirus/Anti-Malware Product
- Best Auditing/Compliance Product
- Best Backup and Recovery Product
- Best Cloud Computing Service
- Best Deployment/Configuration Product
- Best Hardware: Server
- Best Hardware: Workstation
- Best Hardware: Portable Computer
- Best Hardware: Storage
- Best Hardware: Networking
- Best Hardware: Appliance
- Best High Availability Product
- Best Interoperability Product
- Best Management Suite
- Best Messaging Product
- Best Microsoft Product
- Best Mobile and Wireless Product
- Best Network Management Product
- Best Patch Management Product
- Best Scripting Tool
- Best Security Product
- Best SharePoint Product
- Best System Utility
- Best Systems Management Product
- Best Task Automation Product
- Best Training Product or Service
- Best Virtualization Product
- Best Free Tool
- Best Vendor Tech Support
