The Old New Thing

Microspeak: Tenet

April 23, 2013 Apr 23, 2013 04/23/13

Raymond Chen

In standard English, a tenet is a fundamental belief held by a group of people. At Microsoft, the term tenet is used as a generalization of what we previously called taxes: Things that everybody has to do in order to be a good software citizen. While taxes are typically very low-level and specific, like supporting roaming user profiles or...