I've been using Windows 7 pretty much primarily since it became available for public use. There are a LOT of features I like, but I'm having a hard time understanding the hieroglyphs in the system tray. Since Windows XP we've always had the ability the animate the network connection and that gives an idea, at glance, how the network connection is operating. Windows Vista's network connection icon is the pinnacle of value. I have a satellite, high speed broadband connection that frequently drops packets. If I had any other way of connecting, trust me, I'd be all over it. Until then, please bring back, or allow the option to change the icons in the system tray to something intelligible.

dont get me started on this :-) I think when it comes to functionality and efficiency windows 7 is doing a pretty good job. But, on the aestheticsfront,Ifinditquiterough...almosttasteless...A small example, very small one, if you pin too many appz to your taskbar a navigation icon with up and down buttons will show up next to your system tray icons. It is an ugly icon first of all :-) you have to click on it to navigate. And instead of going one by one to the next pinned item, you either are on one part of the taskbar or the second part, or even third pard (if you have too many icons.) An asethetically better way (subjectively) of doing this would be to use an ipod type navigation :-)