I really encourage microsoft to 'cheat' mac a little bit more for windows 7. I highly recommendwindows 7to include the chatting over adhoc feature using people near me and also the ability to chat between windows laptops and mac laptops using it as well. and more to that, it would be great if windows 7have this 'photobooth' same like mac did....getting artistic with the webcam...because it is a fact that most windows users are teenagers not oldies. So yea..i really really encourage you microsoft guys to consider this before you release the final windows 7 to public. thx.

A bit late for that. The final version was frozen last month. it has already been released toMicrosoft partners and to Technet/MSDN subscribers.Bill

The features that you're requesting ("photobooth style"management) are readily avaliable from third party developers and are typically shipped in software bundles with hardware, but are also avaliable on the web (search engine time!).It's rumoured and reported trillian is working on ad-hoc messaging via the ethernet protocol for 802.11x transmition. I believe that this is somewhat supported with the use of Rendevouz in Trillian 3 Pro(beta).Cheers,James

I know we could get those easily out there. but still. think how many people would have the initiative to do that? but with windows 7 have those features with just one or two clicks, it would be really great especially knowing not many teens know computer stuff. i'm a teen on some private school with 1800 students and out of that, my fingers are more than enough to count how many computer geeks out of that 1800. 50% of them uses mac and mostly their reasons is really the ease of use, where as us, we think performance.