Video claims to demo breathtaking Windows 7 features

Breathtaking?

Having wasted time watching the video.. it's a tabbed file browser, ftp functionality and shows a WYSIWYG webpage editor.

Either Vista's seriously lowered expectations or the author's got bad Asthma.

Yeah, that was pretty underwhelming. Wake me up when they do something interesting, like finally decide to drop the legacy core and run with a bsd subsystem.

"Microsoft begins work on the user interface last"

This is part of the problem that Microsoft is having. I'm pretty sure that interface decisions and design aren't the last thing to be done at Apple.

http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-c...

Interesting read.

"The end result of all this is what finally shipped: the lowest common denominator, the simplest and least controversial option."

This is probably the absolutely worst way of creating a good interface.

breathtaking? not. just more like Apple OSX. Yawn.