Things Windows 7 does that Vista doesn't

17. Native ISO Burner. I haven't used Windows in about 5 years, but it still amazes me that this was not baked in to Vista. My parents purchased a Vista desktop computer a couple months back. My dad called me on day 2 asking me how to burn a cd. He gave up on Vista after day 3. The awesome dual core Vista box sits and collects dust while he continues to use his XP (1 Ghz) computer where he has Roxio or some other crap already installed/setup.

The only thing I see as genuinely innovative their is the "problem solver" taking screencaps for every mouse click then creating a webpage and allowing commentary to be added. Seems like a nice little utility app - I'd like to see that in ksnapshot.<p>The other things, MP3 preview, recently used lists (now with added marketing-ese), window placement, .. hardly revolutionary.<p>They added a seamless VM to ease upgrade from XP, nice one (but not really innovation, I can have my virtualbox run seamlessly (but prefer it windowed)).<p>Any reasons there to upgrade from Vista or XP? I didn't notice one.

Ha. In the first picture of the article, the Explorer “jumplist” shows a directory named “20 cool things windows 7 does th...”. This article only lists 18. I guess the list was hard to fill?

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_removed_in_Windows_7" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_removed_in_Windows_7</a>

I dunno, since I switched to a tiled window manager, these types of "lists of cool features in ..." have become so anticlimactic for me.. most of those features just aren't that useful once you go get used to tiling.

Yay native ISO burner! Also, the Windows Explorer built-in .zip file manager isn't freaking slow anymore (though 7-zip still puts it to shame with speed <i>and</i> compression ratios).

The article should really be called "18 things you never thought for the life of you would not be included in Vista that we will present as if they are groundbreaking features"

I think we need an "X number of things every other popular operating system does that Windows doesn't" article. To start off:<p><pre><code> * Multiple users on the same machine at the same time * Software repositories * Useful software pre-installed (windows doesn't have IM, office tools, or photo editing software) * Advanced filesystems available</code></pre>

The "Imagine Parallels on Mac OS X without the need to fish out money on an extra OS" comment regarding XP mode strikes me as a bit disingenuous. The more apt comparison I think would be Classic/OS 9 or PowerPC compatibility - which Apple did provide for free (Classic mode and Rosetta).