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That was how Steve Jobs introduced the topic on everyone's mind at the WWDC today. Apple is switching to Intel processor chips. I wasn't there of course, but got the chance to watch the webcast on Apple's preview release of Quicktime 7 for windows. It's pretty good, though still definitely preview release, and maybe it was because of internet load, maybe it was another reason, but it was quite patchy, not at all smooth as I expected on my machine, 1.8Mhz AMD, 512MB.

A broader view of this event as related to the the computer world can be to see that it fits into the overall direction of things these past two years. Half the world's major software companies are going Open Source. Email and Web hosting space is practically being given away at 2GB a pop. VoIP is quite literally exploding into the market - Heck, I'm using vonage as my primary business line.

Add to that, Macromedia and Adobe merge, and now Apple, bless their hearts is moving to Intel(x86) line of processors. Steve Jobs' Demo was on an imac running a pentium 4 3.6GHz PC.

What does this mean for Apple's future? What does it mean for Apple Hardware. Will I by this time next year be able to pick up Mac OS X Tiger for my HP Desktop? Only time will tell.