I still think the one thing Windows really nailed is printing. Browse for a print server. Find the printer by name. Oh, server says, you don't have a driver? Here's one from the print server. Done. You're up. None of this browsing of an out-of-date pile of files to find the printer that almost, but not quite, matches the printer.
Overall, I've never used anything I like quite as much as that. Not even OSX can compare -- OSX is just about as painful as any standard Unix for adding a new printer. I'm sure that, being Windows, there are lots of flaws and holes, but overall it's less painful than anything else I've seen. ron
