I think you all need some perspective.
You're all arguing about which OS is better, but a lot of you have completely different requirements and expectations for your OS.
An example would be this : Alot of people are defending Windows history of crash and BSODing, by saying "it doesn't happen much anymore" or "so what? reboot and you're fine!" but I'm willing to bet that simply by you reading this page, you're pretty much a computer nerd. I'll admit it, I enjoy using, fixing computers, but I'm also a balanced human being, and I understand that the VAST majority of people affected by these OS changes and features, are NOT computer nerds. They DON'T know how to recover their documents that got lost when Office XP crashed. They DON'T know how to disable the annoying apps that load in the Windows system tray. They DON'T know how to pick and choose what software is ok to download and use and what will have their computer dialing some porn outfit in Romania while they're asleep in bed.

I have built and maintained Windows systems for about 15 years now. I grew up with Windows. I played games, networked all that good stuff as a kid. I was ALWAYS fixing friends and families computers.
Then I grew up. I got sick of fiddling endlessly with my computer just to get a simple job done. Almost everyone reading this site loves fiddling and messing with computers. Some also game. Some also work.

Get my point? If you're a computer whizz and can (and don't mind) fixing your computer when it does something retarded, awesome, that's really great - more people to help fix other's computers.

But for EVERYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD they don't want to know HOW to get the job done, they just want to DO IT. This has already become an area of huge importance over the last 10 years as computers went from geeky hobby to a basic requirement for any workplace.
In the future, OS and hardware designers are going to have to work even harder to make computers EASY (and I mean really intuitive) for HUMANS to use. No training. No certificates. No geeky know-how.

I wanna get it to see to make it do the mac startup chime, when it rings, boots up - everything!

The question I have is : If the 2 tech support questions are about system tray icons, and defragmenting, what did they ask the apple tech support?
Macs automatically defrag themselves, and the closest thing to a system tray is the right hand menu bar, which rarely gets cluttered and is very easy to control through any application that utilises it.

So what did they ask Apple?

I can't believe it! This is happening to me in New Zealand with vodafone and Mino Wireless Voip. It was just a suspicion I had, and now they're being sued in Europe! Fantastic, I'll call my lawyer first thing tomorrow! Thankyou engadget!