What I mean is that if I go to the explorer, there is NO menubar. File, Edit, etc.
This to me is basic stuff. And you sit an average user who has a little experience of Windows 95, or XP in front of Vista, they are going to be lost.
You guys are not what I call 'average users', you are here after all. But what about your parents?
Like I said, I have 23 years in the IT industry, and have a good knowledge of most OS's out in that time. For me, and in my opinion, (and with a lot of the people I talk to in the industry too) MS have released a product that is an age away from OSX in term of a non-computer-literal person sitting down and being able to easily do what they want.
As for OSX crashing, Skarteh, I will confidently say you are in a minority if you think OSX crashes a lot. I've had about 10 different Mac's running in my house, office & shop over the last 6 years, being used on a daily basis and OSX has been the most stable OS I have ever come across. No disrespect intended, but when you hear these sorts of reports, it's often due to people playing silly buggers with the computer/OS as opposed to the OS itself. I know, I used to do it on linux all the time... to be honest, OSX has been more stable than linux for me. But the reason for that is that I no longer have to stuff around to make things work... they just do!
More importantly, if you treat a Mac like a Windows PC... you're asking for trouble!! :^)