IE 7 as a plant.

When you install Internet Explorer 7, accidentally because of the update, you notice just how irritating windows is. let me explain it with a metaphor.

You have a nice plot of dirt. flat, solid and this plot represents your computer as is. IE 7 is a seed you plant in this plot and as it grows the roots spread throughout the dirt. and when you decide "hey i hate IE 7 cause it is fucking stupid." and you decide to uninstall it. it is like tearing the plant out of the ground. and as the plant is torn from the ground the ground comes with it. leaving the ground all disfigured and malformed. and the ground will never be the same.

Also i always like to use this as a way to describe the OS's. Unix is a circle, Linux is a triangle, and OS is a katamari ball. UNIX over time they evenly added updates. Linux was the same way. but DOS they just clumped stuff on at random times and at the end they had this giant disfigured ball of added and un-needed stuff.