More ‘wow’ than Vista
Published by James January 30th, 2007 in NoneSomething about spending $500 million on marketing to launch a product that is coming out after years of delay sounds anything but ‘wow’ to me. This photo below is the coolest iteration I have seen to the Windows platform and it is not even Microsoft(or Apple for that matter, outside of switching to Intel chips) that did it.
Coherence from Parallels running Windows XP, in what looks like a native OS X environment (right down to the icons in the dock).

For further detail, here is a demo of coherence by one of the founders of Parallels, interviewed by an FM author, Andru Edwards, of Gear Live fame.