The Old New Thing

Microspeak: bubble up

February 19, 2013 Feb 19, 2013 02/19/13

Raymond Chen

Bubble up is the name of a soft drink, but at Microsoft, it means something else. (Remember, Microspeak is not just terms used exclusively within Microsoft, but also terms used at Microsoft more often than in the general population.) To bubble up information is to expose the information at a higher reporting level. For example, you might ...