The single most useful feature of windows over mac is the users ability to manipulate files anywhere in the OS. It saves a great amount of time to be able to right click on files in save/open dialogs and create new files, zip other files, or delete. Additionally, you can right click on your 'Favorites' and 'Start' menu items.
Having a pervasive menu bar is extremely useful, especially when combined with the 'folders' view.
Finally, the right click to 'create new shortcut' is actually quite useful as well.
I'd rather use Mac any day, but the Finder is missing so many features that I can work more efficiently on winXP. Using Spotlight is fine, but I have tons of data files whose names I don't remember, so I need a solid file browser to back it up and Finder no longer makes the grade.
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The single most useful feature of windows over mac is the users ability to manipulate files anywhere in the OS. It saves a great amount of time to be able to right click on files in save/open dialogs and create new files, zip other files, or delete. Additionally, you can right click on your 'Favorites' and 'Start' menu items. Having a pervasive menu bar is extremely useful, especially when combined with the 'folders' view. Finally, the right click to 'create new shortcut' is actually quite useful as well. I'd rather use Mac any day, but the Finder is missing so many features that I can work more efficiently on winXP. Using Spotlight is fine, but I have tons of data files whose names I don't remember, so I need a solid file browser to back it up and Finder no longer makes the grade.