December 16th, 2008

Microspeak: Suited and booted

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

At Microsoft’s consulting divisions, customer visits are a part of the job. A shorthand has developed to describe how formally dressed you should be at the meeting with the customer.

  • Suited and booted: Business suit including necktie.
  • Business casual: Collared shirt and trousers (no jeans).
  • Microsoft casual: Jeans and a t-shirt.

(I leave it as an exercise to develop the comparable attire for women.)

Note: This Microspeak entry was submitted by a colleague from the UK, so it may be peculiar to the UK dialect of Microspeak.

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Old New Thing
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MicrospeakNon-Computer

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Raymond Chen

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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