MicroSpeak

This week's edition of the Only4Gurus newsletter came in this morning. I think it was like a month late or something, but then so was my latest product so I don't have much room to talk. Anyways, of note this time around was a reprint from MicroNews, MS' internal newsletter, on the different lingo uttered throughout the halls of One Microsoft Way.

Facemail: Technologically backward means of communication, clearly inferior to voicemail or e-mail. Involves actually walking to someone’s office and speaking to him or her face-to-face.
but my absolute favorite was this:

Grandmanager: My manager’s manager.
Great-grandmanager: My grandmanager’s manager.
Great-great-great-great-grandmanager: BillG.

Some other goodies:
Percussive Maintenance: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
Salmon Day: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed in the end. (I've had a LOT of those)
Crapplet: A badly written or profoundly useless applet. "I just wasted 30 minutes downloading this stinkin’ crapplet!"
Funny stuff. You can download the rest here.

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  • Many of these actually came from some computer magazine (whose name I have forgotten) which solicited these definitions from their readers. I was tipped off by the definition for "mouse arrest", which is a firing offense at Microsoft, not something you joke about having done.

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