These are some notes that I'm taking for Windows 7. They really are for myself - but if you'd like to comment feel free
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. I wonder what other OS's would put a small "system files" partition at the beginning of a disc.... To paraphrase the Church Lady, "...could it be, UNIX?!?"
simple startup screens are nice. I still wish they'd steal the startup screens from Linux tho. It's nice to see a list of what is starting up
The desktop is very KDE-esque. Imitation truly is the greatest form of flattery.
The Control Panel is very deceiving. Change to "Small Icons" to make it usable
ODBC is the same...
Services.msc is the same...
You'll want to customize the start menu to add "run" (why do they hide this stuff?!?)