The Old New Thing

Microspeak: Landing, especially the heated kind

July 16, 2013 Jul 16, 2013 07/16/13

Raymond Chen

Work on Windows occurs in several different branches of the source code, and changes in one branch propagate to other branches. When talking about a feature or other task becoming visible in a branch, the preferred jargon word at Microsoft is landing. In its purest form: We expect the feature to land in the trunk early next week. The term...