And Dignan... Remember that Windows has its own share of similarly annoying effects which have similar deactivation steps

I didn't say it didn't. In fact, I'm pretty sure I was implying that they had equally annoying effects.

Of course I'm sure that both operating systems have ways to deactivate their "annoying" features, but my point was that Apple was just as guilty of what Bit was saying about MS. I never said Windows was better with it, just that I dislike all those attempts at making an OS prettier instead of more functional.