Where's the Innovation? surely not with Microsoft!

I'd like to qualify my complaint to the open source developers with one really big complement: OSS is the only place keeping innovation in computing alive. Microsoft has had the same damn interface design since Windows95. Apple has shown awesome innovation, but not so much on the usability front, more so in sexiness. Definately Apple is number one for having the most user-friendly interface, but more than that, it's sexy, cool, sleek, &c. But still Apple doesn't have all of the productivity features that KDE does:

• fully utilised 3 mouse buttons;
• multiple desktops fully integrated with the window manager (MacOS can have multiple desktops with Desktop Manager, but it's somewhat buggy, and doesn't feel as integrated with the DE as in KDE; Windows has never heard of it, well, the mods I found for XP were pretty dysfunctional);
• kioslaves (check out ipod://);
• complete customisability of the panels &c.;
• configuration of window behavior on different types of mouse clicks (activation, raise, &c.);
• Awesome amounts of customizable eye candy;

• SuperKaramba!

  with which you can do incredible things. Check out the GMail applet, and Liquid Weather

  ;
• Kompose, which is basically Expose for KDE. This is a tool that immensely improves productivity, but MSFT?, never heard of it;
• Kat (similar to Spotlight on Tiger);
• Cool translucencey effects built into kwin, if you have a decent gfx card, or a decent processor
• much more that I'm missing here...

The only problem, that is, if you don't want to spend a week or so molding everything to your liking, is that the DEFAULT configuration hasn't been given enough thought, so most users can't take advantage of most of these things. But things are changing! It looks like KDE4 will be awesome (and probably released before Vista), just check out Appeal. As far as Vista goes, unless you have a superfast gfx card, you probably won't notice the difference between it and XP. Wake up Microsoft!