Locking down my development machine would cause my resignation. I'm always amazed that people will put up with stuff like that.

you're important enough in you company to "resign"? most of us peons here have to make do with "quittng"

Thats right, I told my boss this is shit, and he answered me that its the way it is and cannot be changed per security reasons. He is anoyed too.

What he told me is that the system is designed for the normal users, so is as restricted as possible so that they cannot break it.

Since more and more developers have been joining the company this is becoming a really anoying issue, but nobody of the people who have enough power and could force a change cares about this stuff.

Personally, with my own custom system I would be very much productive, altough vim already boosted my productivity even being on windows (xp) ...