No, because FreeBSD FTW! Seriously, as long as the development environment allows me to get things done, I'm not sure I care too much about the underlying OS.

No, because FreeBSD FTW! Seriously, as long as the development environment allows me to get things done, I'm not sure I care too much about the underlying OS. Here everyone is free to pick the laptop OS they want. For the moment it's 100 % Windows 7 + VMWare. Our software is multiplatform (Windows/Linux/FreeBSD). I submit Windows 7 will keep the high ground for developers because of VS2010.