I tried Mac OS's "natural" scrolling for about 5 seconds before switching it off.
I'm generally very supportive of UI changes when they provide a better way of doing things but changing the scrolling seemed kind of pointless to me. I've never confused the scrolling window paradigm with touch screens where you're manipulating the content.
It's not like smartphones (including iOS) don't use both anyway. When you're scrolling down slowly in an app or on a web page you drag the content upwards. But if you want to quickly scroll down through a long list or something you drag the scroll bar downwards, just like you would with a trackpad to go down a webpage.
It's a minor thing that I'm sure I could get used to quickly (save for scrolling down to zoom in on a map, I think that'd drive me crazy for a while), but I can't think why I'd bother, especially when every other computer uses so-called "reverse" scrolling.
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