[mrfumier]

Legally in most countries, it's up to the company to provide you with the tools to work, therefore it's up to company to choose these tools.

In other words, if they provide you with a PC on Windows 7 with Notepad as an editor, you shouldn't (and you probably don't have the admin rights anyway) to install anything else on company's property.

In reality, it's usually in the interest of the company to allow you to work with tools on which you are the most productive. But they don't have to.

[tamarind8]

I agree. This company provided a windows box, but did not provide any set any proper guidelines or specifications on how it should look. All the knowledge about that was locked into different developers heads.

I was trying to fix that, by documenting everything in the wiki but I guess I use Firefox, so red flag, I've got to go.