Big Week
So this past week saw a number of announcements, both from CES and MacWorld. Obviously, we’ve all seen post after post on the iPhone, and probably more than a few about Windows Home Server, and dozens of other products that will be coming down the road in 2007. Given all you’ve read, what products are you most looking forward to? Which don’t interest you as much, which ones are you seriously going to think about buying, and which are simply too expensive?
Myself, the iPhone sounded very cool, but the price and the locked-down nature of the phone will probably cause me to pass on it. I know that won’t be true of some of the others FiT members. Not being able to connect to an Exchange server, at least for now, will keep it from showing up in our workplace as well. I was a bit more excited about the Windows Home Server announcement. Seems like a very interesting idea, having a simple server OS that can be used in the home to do some things that take more knowledge than the typical home user has now, like running backups, or accessing your files remotely, etc.
As far as Bill Gates, and the Vista rollout, I do think that as an IT professional I’m going to have to at least be aware of what’s going on with it, and what it brings to the table in the workplace. My own plans for 2007 include picking up a new desktop machine, so I’m waiting until I can get one with Vista pre-installed, not because I can’t wait for Vista, but because I do need to be familiar with it before it hits the office. (I’d like the Ultimate version but that’s not going to happen!)
How has this week affected your tech plans for 2007?
