Firstly, this is probably old to some of the existing experienced Mac users, but may help some of the newer Mac users.
Yes, it may seem somewhat "wrong" and no doubt the review will probably invoke the gag reflexes for a large number of people who are hardened mac addicts and consider touching windows to be sleeping with the enemy. The reason I decided to write this is because some of you out there may want to OSX your windows at work, or you VM. Yeah, its not quite installing OSX on your machine, but at least you pretend you're not using Windows for the odd couple of hours between each system crash or blue screen.
I installed this for my wife as a means to try get her smoothed over to the idea of using OSX (she will be getting a Mac for her next machine whether she likes it or not) and after installing it on her machine, I realised how helpful it would be on my own machine and promptly installed it on the 5 VM's I have running. In short, its a dock for windows, and it'll make you feel a little more like you're using Mac. I won't go through a massive review of docks vs windows, if you're here, no doubt you know how good it is working with docks, but it does mimic a large amount of the functionality found in OSX, and best of all, its free.
The functionality as it stands is simple, its a dock, has some basic functionality like mac including minimizing windows to the doc, bouncing icons when they need action (like when a mail arrives in outlook), zooming in as you move your mouse over the icon, you get the idea. You can also adjust the themes of the dock.
So for those people stuck with windows work machines, VM's or boot camp, here is your chance to feel at home again. As I said, its free, and you can download it from
RocketDock - About RocketDock. There are also plenty of custom docks, icons etc available if you don't like the standard ones.
From my wife's perspective, she has now put a copy on her memory stick to put it on her work machine, and this of course is the first step towards moving her to the dark side. Now that she has tasted the fruit, it'll be hard for her to resist it when it comes to machine replacement time.
