win32_ssh_unix_utils
Improving windows
Time and time again I use tools on linux like grep, cat, and of course ssh.
Apart from cygwin which uses an emulation layer there are also other tools that are native win 32 binaries. I've started to list them here for future reference.
sshd
OpenSSH for Windows is a sourcefourge project. Works very well, though I find you can run tools like VIM or ant others that do more than echo results back.
Unix Utils
GNU utilities for Win32 is another sourcefourge project that ported many of the GNU utils.
Cygwin
GNU + Cygnus + Windows provides an emulation layer which acts as an API. And many of the tools are already built and the installer has a powerful package manager. I've actually managed to forward an X-Session off my gentoo box to a windows machine through Cygwin.