"Heh , tell me about it. I deal with a 10-odd group of reluctant ubuntu-(cur)sing web devs who are always whining about insignificant details; making up excuses about needing some software package from win32-land. I mean, I give them Eclipse (tm) with bells, whistles, source control and kitchen_sink, and they still WhInE about their favourite windows notepad. *shakes head* Well human nature aside, I find a bigoted stance disturbing. I mean, I still keep a stripped down windows install on a small primary partition.(skip the legal lecture) It comes in real handy for bios updates from Acer(win cmd line binaries only), firmware updates for PMPs with obscure/non-existent filesystem documentation (not iPods, I can flash them left and right on linux with dd+fdisk, because determined reversers have figured out the cylinder numbers) I'm saying there are more than a few niche use-cases where 'special' software specially written by hardware manufacturers are required. I don't mean drivers. I..." - Vimal George