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Then this new holy war boils down to an good old *nix vs windows holy war, or open-source vs closed applications.

Absolutely - to my shame, I only appreciated the irony of re-hashing an older holy war on this thread after I'd posted the comment!

No it doesn't. There just hasn't been a windows developer who cared enough to write the interface you want. That could be you if you care.