PIC versus AVR

I don't want to start a religious war, but could a few knowledgeable people
give me their impressions of the relative advantages of PIC vs AVR? Assume
that I will be using both, to some extent, for some time, and want to know
what their relative advantages are. Throw in MSP430 too if you'd like.

I'm mostly using PICs right now but am stuck on the fact that MPLAB requires
you to have write permissions in C:\Program Files (which we can't allow in a
big student lab with roaming profiles), and also, if you follow the
simplest, default path toward creating an ASM project, you run into a
62-character length limit on the full path to the file. Does AVR Studio
cooperate fully with normal Windows security practices, or does it, too,
require you to loosen security on the computer in order to run it?


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