It actually has less features than Vista, and for me that's a good sign. Microsoft focused on just making sure everything works better and faster. Memory usage

It actually has less features than Vista, and for me that's a good sign. Microsoft focused on just making sure everything works better and faster. Memory usage is significantly lower, for example, and boot times are shorter. The Control Panel and some menus have a more logical organization. Each app can adjust its representation in the new taskbar, so for Internet Explorer you can see a list of all open tabs, not just windows. You get Prev, Pause and Next buttons for Media Player. They took out some of the bundled applications, like Photo Gallery. They didn't even change the default wallpaper! Kudos! If only they had released this instead of Vista things would be golden.