Hell, I wouldn't even code for IE7 if I had the opportunity. This thread reminded me that I haven't checked my administration package under IE lately, and bringing it up (running more than valid CSS) everything looks nearly like it's supposed to except that there's some random MAJOR variations in margin settings that have caused my forms to not line up properly.

Why... oh why... and yes I fully agree on the Linux. I just upgraded to 4 gigs of ram from 2 in my dual core so that I could accomodate the fact that Vista itself (before any additional applications) was mowing down on over a gig of ram. And that's after I turned off over 40% of the useless services that it installs with, disabled a variety of useless features (not the least of which being the UAC), and turned off a bunch of other crap.
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