I often hear how OS X "just works" and how it's so easy to do pretty much everything.  Often the differences between the Windows and OS X way are just that, different, not really better or worse.  That's why I was so surprised to find out how relatively hard it is to assign a drive letter to a network share on OS X.

Chalk one up on the Windows side of things.  On XP and Vista it's as simple as right-clicking on the share and selecting "Map Network Drive..."