With Bill gone, and speculation about Steve’s health, does the industry know where it’s gonna go..?

I’ve been giving this one a lot of thought, and I’m certain that I’m gonna tweak the heck out of this article before the final version is posted; but I have to ask the question: with Bill gone last week and Steve’s health in question, does the computer and computing industry know where it’s going?  I’m not entirely certain.  What’s worse is I think many of us are afraid to find out…

I’m 42 years old (meaning I was born in 1965). I have grown up in the computer era.  We’ve gone from punch cards to reel tape, main frames to minis, and Commodore/Atari to today’s desktop PC’s, all in the span of my life time.  Kids…?  That really isn’t a lot of time to have come as far as we have.  What’s even more interesting, we have just a handful of people to thank for the drive and innovation that got us here.  Two of them are Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

I’m not going to go through what each man has accomplished in the course of their careers.  If you want to see stuff like that, take a trip to C-Net or ZDNet, and then come back. I’m certain they have articles that do that kind of chronological dance down memory lane. We’re going to see articles like that ad-nauseam.  What I’m more interested in and concerned about is the future of computing now that the Era is ending.

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June 18, 2008 is the last day for you to place a regular order with Dell for a computer to be pre-loaded with Windows XP Pro. After the 18th you’ll have to exercise your “downgrade rights” by purchasing a qualifying machine with a qualifying copy of Vista and specifying that you want to downgrade to XP (and in some instances pay a $20 - $50 fee). Confused? Keep reading for more information that explains the process.

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Speculation, speculation… I wonder who’s going to take the Vista plunge…or not. 

Over the last few weeks, there’s been a lot of chatter over operating systems.  Who’s ready for this SP, or that, on this OS or the other… Who’s going to install them or wait it out for a while…that type of thing. I’ve heard a people grimacing over XP EOL and Vista, as well.  What is even more interesting is that some of my IT management team has been saying that they may blow by Vista entirely in favor of Windows 7.

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