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  • Blog Post: Microspeak: Future-proofing

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    ...common language. The same holds true for Microspeak . In the Redmond dialect of Microspeak, we talk about extensibility : Designing...namespace extension. In the Reading dialect of Microspeak, the term for this is future-proofing...
    Posted on1 Feb 2010
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  • Blog Post: Microspeak: Pencils down

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    I'm particularly fascinated by Microspeak terms which nobody actually knows the...completely turned on its head. The Microspeak that allegedly allows people to communicate...mine introduced me to this new type of Microspeak. Our conversation takes place in an...
    Posted on26 Aug 2008
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  • Blog Post: Microspeak: Net out

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    ...citations, but they aren't relevant to Microspeak, so I've left them out.) In finance...your net change for the tax period. In Microspeak, well, I'm not sure what it means...that net out is unrelated to that other Microspeak phrase net net , discussed earlier.
    Posted on2 Nov 2009
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  • Blog Post: Microspeak: Reporting through

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    ...through? "He reports up through Jane Austen's org." The Microspeak term report through (or report up through ) comes up often...the manager who directly reports to Steve Sinofsky. Bonus Microspeak : Org is a common short form of the word organization , meaning...
    Posted on5 Jul 2011
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  • Blog Post: Microspeak: Turds

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    In Microspeak, a turd is a graphics glitch which results in old pixels appearing on...a "make clean". Note that this particular term turd is not formal Microspeak. You won't find it in a specifications document. But you may encounter...
    Posted on5 Jun 2012
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  • Blog Post: Microspeak: Granular

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    Today's Microspeak word is granular . Here are some citations. Please bring your cost...relieved to know is also wildly popular at Microsoft. (Remember, Microspeak is not only about words and phrases unique to Microsoft. It also...
    Posted on2 Oct 2012
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  • Blog Post: Microspeak: Action on

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    ...to have been spared exposure to this particular corner of Microspeak, but others have not been so lucky. Have you actioned on...impede communication . The inventors of this particular form of Microspeak must be proud of themselves, for not only have they verbed...
    Posted on18 Aug 2009
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  • Blog Post: Microspeak: Informing a product

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    Microspeak is not always about changing a word from a verb to a noun or changing a noun to a...today to inform the release? I like how that brief snippet combines three pieces of Microspeak: take-away , learnings , and inform .
    Posted on13 Dec 2010
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  • Blog Post: Microspeak: Hipo

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    ...It was not about the Greek root hypo but rather the bizarro Microspeak word hipo , shorthand for high-potential employee . As I...before), I found that it fell into that special category of Microspeak known as if you have to ask, I'm not going to tell you...
    Posted on28 Apr 2011
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  • Blog Post: Microspeak: Dogfood

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    Everybody knows about the Microspeak term dogfood . It refers to the practice of taking the product you are working on and using...caught on. ² I made up the term "double-dogfood" just now. It is not part of Microspeak.
    Posted on2 Aug 2011
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