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The list unearthered by Neowin contains the top 61 request submitted by participants in Microsoft's Early Feedback programme.

In their own words they include the following, with the respective OS X features in parentheses.

• request for an integrated Font Manager (Font Book)
• Network Tray - "Currently Connected To" with context menus (Leopard's Shared menu)
• Network/Internet bandwidth monitor (Activity Monitor)
• Auto clean of Temp folders (automatic maintenance scripts)
• IE should have a close button on each tab (Safari)
• Make all Windows Updated descriptive (Software Update, though to be fair

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Apple be a little economical, so half marks on this one)
• WMP - Support Songs without Albums (iTunes)
• Rotate JPF files according to EXIF information (iPhoto)
• Drag Tabs from one instance of IE to another (Safari 3)
• Image (ISO, BIN) supprt in Windows (disk images)
• Family license [sic] (Mac OS X Family Pack)
• Allow reordering Taskbar (Application) Buttons (Customize Toolbar)
• Add Folder Size to data displayed in Windows Explorer (Finder)
• Windows Backup should have more file choice options and should allow user to back-up specific files he [sic] selects (Time Machine)
• Built-in spell [sic] checker for Internet Explorer (Safari and system-wide)
• IE direct file download - do not download to temp folder (Safari)
• Internet Explorer MUST have inline find (Safari)
• Add a feature to parental control letting you choose how much time children can connect, not only when (Parental Controls)
• create a new user type for Child with a protected desktop controlled by parent (Parental Controls)
• replace error ID number with plain language explanation (System-wide)
• Re-sizable dialog windows (again, system-wide)

Microsoft has yet to set a date for the release of Windows 7, its internal name for the the successor to Vista.