Do you know what I'm talking about? Did you see the Wave demo video? It's *real time typing* - not just a notification like "dude is typing...", it's ACTUAL typing showing on your screen as it happens. Pardon me for not believing it will scale across federated servers or even Google's own ones.

I wouldn't believe Google's ability to have real time typing notification in federated servers, or even in their own...

... which OS it ships with?

... but Visual Studio Express is actually quite good. I'm a Linux guy, and I use Komodo Edit (I do mostly "dynamic language" development now) and before that I used Eclipse for C/C++ and Java, and although Eclipse gets a lot of things right, it can't beat Visual Studio's breadth of features and simplified work-flow. Of all the things MS has done over the years, VS is hands down (IMHO) the best. They don't give it away with all the features so as to not kill the 3rd party market, but it's clear nothing out there in Win[32/64] land comes close (especially for C++ and C#).

... running the site on the laptop - with this much load now, it's a fire hazard.

Adobe Reader's flaws are more visible than Foxit's. Or do you think Foxit is perfect? It's not considered an attack vector due to its smaller user base, but rest assured it is flawed as well (MAYBE not as much).