The fact that it is cross platform means that the primary platform for application development is independent of the low-level OS features.

Fundamental OS features were released very late in the game.

You mean where third party software doesn't work when underlying OS features are changed?

Maybe we'll see some other new OS features (e.g., Java support) in it, maybe not.

With Windows 7, Microsoft's speech recognition has become a decent productivity tool and one that the company should be proud to proclaim as an OS feature.

Should developers push the envelope and take advantage of the latest OS features?

Hibernate (OS feature)

The OS features were successfully added to UnixWare.

LEO: Is that an OS feature?

The "Other OS" feature is disabled by firmware version 3.21 but still runs on older consoles that have firmware 3.15 or lower.