10 categories of warnings now pile up quietly in a single, unified Action Center and don’t interrupt you at all.
David Pogue on Windows 7 new non-nagging security “alert” system. What could possible go wrong with that approach, David?
10 categories of warnings now pile up quietly in a single, unified Action Center and don’t interrupt you at all.

Just one of the many incredible innovations in Windows 7. On an iPhone, displaying a text-heavy dialogue about a seperate in-window notification is the sole purpose of at least 17,000 apps.
(h/t marco)

Windows (and, more generally, Microsoft) in 20 words or less.