> This is my second internship at Microsoft. I worked on Office last year and now I'm working on Windows Live

real talk: have you ever worked on an 'embrace, extend, extinguish'[1] feature or are rank-and-file engineers shielded from that? the only microsofties I know worked at MSR and from what I understand that is a much different environment than actual microsoft. kind of curious what it's actually like in there[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

[2] I tend toward the side of linux zealot so I'm trying to soften my tone here