You can paste a filepath in the top bar as you would paste a URL. There's also the window snapping, which is not specific to Explorer, but is awesome. Those two features are absolutely killer. I'm not ready to switch from a Mac yet, but I have to agree with the article that the overall Mac situation seems to be getting worse.
It's also in the "Go" menu, under "Go to Folder...". Which, sure, you'd have to want that feature to go looking for it, but if you did search for it in the interface, it's pretty clearly the obvious place to look.
The Go to Folder feature does not show the current path when you're in a Finder window.
In Windows, you can modify the path, eg, change from C:\Users\Scott\Desktop to C:\Users\Fred\Desktop easily just by selecting and typing.
In OSX, the Go To Folder dialogue remembers the last path you entered. So yet another step to drag the current Finder's folder icon into it, and then modify. For example.
You're right, but I don't really think it's too bad. The Go To Folder dialogue generally works like cd. So you can enter a relative path and it will work, you can type ~Fred/Desktop and it will work, and you can type lon[TAB]/ot[TAB] and get longfoldername/otherlongfolder. They have different strengths, I suppose.
