My favorite analogy of being a Microsoft developer comes from this article: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/wjs_Windows.html http://www.stepwise.co

My favorite analogy of being a Microsoft developer comes from this article: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/wjs_Windows.html http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/wjs_Windows.html "Lots of small programmers have a vision that working with Microsoft is like being one of those little toothbrush birds for crocodiles - sure, the crocodile is the one eating the zebras and gazelles, but there's plenty of crumbs left in the cracks between his teeth. The crocodiles don't hurt the birds, as they appreciate clean teeth, and the tiny birds can live very well off the morsels that the 20-foot crocodile deems not worth bothering with, so everybody wins. The problem with this analogy is toothbrush birds never grow up to be crocodiles - they spend their whole lives just living off the gunk in crocodile's teeth."