nemesis wrote:
> In Linux you can locally install a whole database server under an unprivileged
> user's directory and work just fine for development purposes. 

You can do that in Windows, too, if you don't write to registry settings 
that don't belong to the user. There's just no good default place to store 
per-user binaries.  (At least Vista doesn't make it hard to find the "home" 
directory like XP did.)

> The power of
> ambient variables and simple text file configuration settings...

Windows has both of those. :-) The registry is just a more general solution.

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