Yeah, lots of the differences are just differences. > and windows 7 has definitely fixed a lot of the clutter that really annoyed me with the taskbar and makes

Yeah, lots of the differences are just differences. > and windows 7 has definitely fixed a lot of the clutter that really annoyed me with the taskbar and makes it a lot less annoying to minimize a whole bunch of windows. I agree, it really is a completely different way of operating. I used to spend a lot of time trying to get the old taskbar out of the way, with Win 7, it feels really nice, operates even better, and in many ways makes a lot of sense. > and the whole "minimize to tray" was just a way to get around the taskbar clutter Truer words were never spoken. The process tray is really quite abused. Do I really need 37 icons in there. At least with 7 you can configure the behavior a bit. I do like how OSX's dock operates, and how it indicates running programs and the like. I think Windows 7 copied very liberally from this in terms of function, but it looks quite a bit different, with some updated ideas. I still think Apple can optimize the dock and toolbar and notification area of OSX a bit more. > my fav trick for quitting apps is holding cmd, tabbing to the app you want, then pressing q to quit. Yeah, that's almost as nice as Chrome's tab closing operation.