> I don’t give a hoot about the native command line tools, except for needing SSH to be present WHICH WINDOWS SCREWS UP AS WELL.<p>Yes, that's true, and as usual, but there's always BitVise: <a href="http://www.bitvise.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.bitvise.com</a> , which, in spite of the impression created by the Website, has a free version that works very well.<p>I mention this because I have always required SSH access to any OS that I respected and expected to make use of, but until recently the Windows offerings were pretty terrible.<p>I have no connection with BitVise except having successfully used their SSH product.