Lots of the teams use CFD to help design their cars but basically CFD doesn't work anywhere near as well as old fashioned wind tunnel testing and so all the top teams spend all year (24/7!) doing tunnel testing!

Office 2007, open from cache in less than 1 second on a crap machine!!

...and pays for all calls. Nice little tax break for me.

It's a complete non-starter on a computer with multiple user accounts. How do you update it? Do you really want to update every single version separately? Really? What about corporate environments?

Firefox installer isn't great for corporate Windows environments either because it isn't delivered as an MSI package. Why on earth the FF people can't follow a nearly 10 year old platform packaging standard is beyond me. Yes you can get FF MSI packages from 3rd parties but that has its own problems and barriers.

I think you'll find that Chrome's record with regards security is no better than IE8 or FF.

Also, as far as rocking, I still can't get over the way it rides roughshod over installation standards and copies program files to your user profile. Until they get that sorted I won't touch it.

I'm not sure how you equate slashdotters and intelligent people. I'm sure some slashdotters have brains, but they are few and far between.

Clearly you wait until the money hits your account before paying out!

I got an XP -> 7 upgrade for GBP65 which I think is excellent value for money.

Flamebait now appears to mean 'holds an opinion that differs from mine'!

Vista and 7 rock. What's the problem?

Since the most advanced device, pelamis, appears not to work at all this all seems moot right now.

You need to take off your blinkers. Windows is a great platform for developers and has been stable for around 20 years. Can't say the same for either Mac or Linux.

Wow! I stand corrected. Guess I don't know as much as I thought I did. I always assumed that Linux and OSX were proper grown up client operating systems - apparently not. Makes Windows look pretty good. Developers Developers Developers!

The author implies that adobe can't use gpu for flash on mac. Why not? Is he getting confused with iphone which is different from the mac, at least the last time I checked.

Guess it actually had a different destiny!