Speed isn't everything. For the love of all web developers everywhere, pick any browser (Safari, Chrome, Opera, or Firefox) and dump IE. We would greatly appreciate it.

I just let it start up when I log-in. By the time Outlook and the anti-virus (and, presumably, all the malware that was not caught by either my anti-virus or my IT staff), Firefox will be there too.

In the meantime, I walked the floor, said "good morning" to my co-workers and got a nice warm cup of coffee from the espresso machine.

Could I use Linux, I would have to start working only a couple seconds after my computer was turned on. Think of it as a quality of life issue ;-)