A Windows 7 Review:

Taskbar: It looks like a stripped Tiger Dock. Remove all Applications except Finder, that'll be the same. Or look at the AmigaOS 4 beta Dock. The icons in the systray are now only in black and white (call it 'simple style') - like in the Apple menu bar.

Windows: Transparent windows you also had in the AmigaOS 4 betas, I think there were patches for AmigaOS 3.x versions. But anyway - what sense make transparent window frames when the contents have to be opaque?

Explorer localizations: That may not know all guys here - Vista (and so Windows 7) also uses now file and folder localizations. In the German version of XP the 'Program Files' has the name 'Programme', in Vista it's still 'Program Files', but shown 'Programme'. OS X does the same, the Finder only shows special system folders and filenames localized, the real file and path names are in English. Screenshot: both windows /Applications/Utilities - in German it's shown /Programme/Dienstprogramme in Finder.

Viruses, Trojans, annoying requesters: These are not copied from OS X - Microsoft knows better how to turn users into a nervous wreck.

Windows 7 is only a remake of Vista, with more OS X copies. It's like Ubuntu Beryl - looks cool if anyone needs entertainment but isn't really useful. Beryl also has a lot of similarities to OS X, hm? Menu bar, Dock, etc... Looks like a mixture of Windows and OS X, only that you don't get professional programs for it :-P But if you compare it to AmigaOS 4.1 hasn't to hide against this, it's a lightweight OS which runs on PPC platforms - also on the Mac Mini.

For me is Windows definetively dead. I have in Parallels a Media Center Edition for a very few reasons, but without visible taskbar and in Coherence mode you don't see anything of it.

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2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination.

My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter • MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interface • Behringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor • RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64