wow, my worst job infrastructure experience ever was when we were all forced to run a windows virtual machine to run outlook as our mail client, even though we were developing on linux and there was no real reason to prefer outlook over a linux mail client. (our company was making software for the windows vm market, and the ceo got the bright idea that everyone should run a windows vm to dogfood our product.)<p>it was a pretty miserable experience, but this kind of puts it into perspective :)