According to this early review from Gizmodo, the best feature so far in Windows 7 is the dock.  Not surprisingly, the dock looks a lot like the OS X dock that’s proven so useful in the Mac world.

First, you’ll notice that the Quick Launch Bar (the little tray on the left in XP and Vista where you can click to launch apps) has been combined with the Taskbar (the place where open apps used to sit so you can access them). Now, it’s just one bar of icons that opens up “in place”, much like OS X’s dock. You then can right click on these and pin them to to the Taskbar (again, like the Dock) so you can launch these apps when not in use.

I had to look at the pictures a few times to notice that the “task tray” is still in place, so now you’ll have TWO indications of running applications.  I also don’t see any way to easily tell if something is running or not without floating your mouse over the icon on the bar and seeing if the window pops up.  Yeah, that’s right.  Might as well just put the little blue dot on them and call the lawyers.

Is the rest of it just like Vista?  We’ll have to see.  Early reviews are good, but so were the non-technical early reviews of Vista.   Has it gotten easier to run Aero Glass on less powerful hardware, or does it still suck down all your resources?

For today just go out and get a netbook and Rocketdock and leave Windows XP on it.   7 still has a ways to go to overcome what’s left of Vista.