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Your pre-school coleagues aren`t MS programmers :))))..Here is a small list

Soulstorm 12th May 2009

BitLocker drive encryption - OSX only has folder encryption. Windows has had that since Windows NT 3.x.

Active Directory - now being copied by Linux

Access Control List - only recently added in OSX. Has been in Windows NT 1.0.

Remote Desktop - no equivalent at all in Linux or OSX. All they have is VNC. VNC started in the Windows world that got implemented in Linux and OSX. That is the worst form of remote desktop (screen scraping). Its like a high school student's home work. With Remote Desktop, Windows users threw away VNC as trash, and Linux/OSX picked it up - they really have nothing else, but junk.

SMB - copied as Samba. Where is AppleTalk now? Apple does not know how to write an OS. They had to take BSD.

DirectX - makes Open GL like a kid's work.

Etc. etc.

Who again is overtaking who?

New in Win7...

BITS Branch Cache (Vista had something called Peer Cache) - serverless P2P.

Support for TRIM command for SSD - now perhaps being added to Linux. Another me too effort. Definitely not in OSX.

Improved (less chatty) SMB - Samba is behind again. Nobody in the Linux world could make a better SMB. MS had to do it.

VHD Booting - Linux folks probably scratching their head now. What is that? they say. How do we copy that?

Now go back to your basement and keep talking to your imaginary friends/MS programmers