Really? I'll admit that the general Aero UI looks good, but the new taskbar thingy is awful. I feel like MS hired a design firm that started from the top down, and just before they got to the bottom, fired them and replaced them with a chipmunk.
I mean, it's significantly bigger, yet it contains less information?
I like it quite a bit, yes. No, it's not as pretty as other OS's, but everything's relative, and that icon is ugly in any OS

But yes, I think it's an attractive operating system, including the taskbar. I also appreciate the way the taskbar works, but lets continue this in another thread...