January 30th, 2008

Microspeak: Housing

The real estate department at Microsoft has their own weird jargon. In the real estate world, you don’t “work” in a building; you are “housed” there. Here are a few citations.

The new buildings will be able to house N workers.

Employees housed at Facility X will be able to use temporary parking spaces being constructed at Location Y.

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Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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