Alternatives To Apple Dock - Taskbar This box helps explain the association that I always have had.

 

We bought a Mac.  I like many parts about it.  It syncs with my iphone etc...

I can't learn the dock.  I am afraid we might need to move back to Windows.  I can't stand it.  I've tried explaining to myself how to minimize it into the corner and tried minimizing applications to icon, but no luck.

Is there an application to display a list?  I'm not looking for alternative techniques for understanding.  I really needs a list, not a dock.

Preferably it would work look similar to Windows Dock.

Having used applications like Quicksilver before, and knowing the ingenuity and geniuses in the Mac community it feels like someone could create something like this.
uBar is a Windows-style taskbar for OS X that I developed. Be sure to set Window Grouping to Never in the preferences, and it will exactly replicate the behaviour you are looking for.