I'm a Microsoft guy and Windows is in my blood.  There's one (and ONLY one) feature that I love in our competitor's product, the Icon Dock. Now, I have been looking around to get a similar look and feel of the Icon Dock on Windows. And, finally found one at the StarDock's ObjectDock site. I have since become a fanatic of this freeware product. The product has many features that excel in pleasing the eyes of the beholder - you gotta try it to enjoy it.

I do see a few issues w/ running this on my Vista build laptop. Especially, the SysStats docklet crashes ObjectDock - I see why that is the case, because, SysStats tries to inquire system performance stats and believe it needs to be rewritten for AppCompat on Vista.