You're giving a very shallow comparison overall. This is a set of trivia rather than any detailed analysis. installation of apps can be confusing to people not

You're giving a very shallow comparison overall. This is a set of trivia rather than any detailed analysis. installation of apps can be confusing to people not familiar with macs Either you run an installer, or you drag a file to Applications. Are you joking? That's actually one of the easiest things. no reasonable way to uninstall software along with its data Not built-in, no. Get AppCleaner, which is free and very reasonable. disk volumes (dmg files) can be confusing to people not familiar with macs Each family member of mine who's used a Mac figured this out instantly. They treat it like a plugged-in device, which is a really nifty way of simplifying a complex process. not clear whether installing a virus checker and/or firewall is important to people not familiar with macs It's not, which is why it's never talked about. window management not as nice as win 7 although Exposé is very cool Something like this doesn't give any information. Does Windows 7 attach its notifications physically to the generating window, sliding the window into view if the notification needs room? Something like that adds significantly to usability, and there are a lot of small window features like that. strange that closing the last window of an app does not quit the app The rule on the Mac is as follows: if there's a reason you'd keep the application open when the last window closes, it stays open. That way I can hear iTunes with the window closed (and without some crap about minimizing the window), or I can close a TextEdit window and immediately open a new on. iPhoto, meanwhile, closes instantly, because it's a single-window system. pdf files are not shown in the browser window Yes? They do? Preview is built-in.