Apple released the details of their operating system upgrade, OSX Lion. The concept behind Lion is meshing Snow Leopard with an iPad. This seems like a good idea, but I'll reserve my judgment for when I actually use it. Luckily, Apple's operating system upgrades are only $50, so I'll pick it up when it comes out.
Besides the features of Lion, I'm thinking that Apple is trying to one-up Microsoft. (Yes, I know that Linux rocks, but in the mainstream, it's really OSX vs. Windows.) Windows 7 is just plain good... I love it. When it was Vista vs OSX, OSX won hands down. If you didn't like OSX, you either went to Linux or just stuck it out with XP.
Once Lion is formally released, we'll be able to accurately compare it with Windows 7.
