Microspeak: Persona

Raymond Chen September 14, 2021 Sep 14, 2021 09/14/21

A template for a prototypical user.

Microspeak: Placemat

Raymond Chen August 11, 2020 Aug 11, 2020 08/11/20

Everything in its place.

Microspeak: Click stop

Raymond Chen February 18, 2020 Feb 18, 2020 02/18/20

A place to pause and refresh.

Microspeak: Bucket bugs, bucket spray, bug spray, and failure shift

Raymond Chen January 21, 2020 Jan 21, 2020 01/21/20

How failures in the wild get categorized by analysis.

Microspeak: Occupant compression

Raymond Chen April 16, 2019 Apr 16, 2019 04/16/19

This is not so much Microspeak as it is Microsoft Real Estate and Facilities-speak. The following notice was displayed in one of the buildings: Microsoft Real Estate and Facilities will be converting lab 1234 to a team space. The new space will ease occupant compression. Occupant compression? Ouch, that sounds painful. The term compression...

Obsolete Microspeak: TDBN and the six-pack

Raymond Chen August 29, 2018 Aug 29, 2018 08/29/18

Old Windows 8 terminology.

Microspeak: knobs

Raymond Chen June 19, 2018 Jun 19, 2018 06/19/18

Recall that Microspeak is not merely for jargon exclusive to Microsoft, but also for jargon that you need to know because nobody will explain it to you. Here are some citations. This class has a lot of knobs and controls to support many scenarios, but are they all necessary? The controls have a number of events and knobs to allow you to ...

Microspeak: ZBB, recall class, glide path, and RTM

Raymond Chen May 8, 2018 May 8, 2018 05/8/18

Remember that Microspeak is not merely for terminology specific to Microsoft. It also covers terms in common use which you are expected to know because nobody will explain them to you. In an old Microspeak entry, I included a snippet from an old document that included the sentence Project XYZ is at ZBB and we are now at a recall class only ...

Microspeak: Tented

Raymond Chen April 25, 2018 Apr 25, 2018 04/25/18

Here's a citation for the Microspeak term tented from an old Microsoft job listing that is no longer available, maybe because the req has been filled. You and your team will decide how the Office clients and services measure their success in performance sensitive areas like latency, memory/disk footprint, and battery life not only for the ...

Microspeak: The triad, the ad-hoc acronyms that result, and the arithmetic problem 3 × 3

Raymond Chen March 6, 2018 Mar 6, 2018 03/6/18

At Microsoft, you'll often encounter three letters put together to form an acronym representing what appears to be a group of people of some sort. Document title: Monthly meeting with CMR CMR will review the status of all projects in the upcoming weeks. From: Morgan ... email message ... Thanks for all your hard work,CMR This acronym ...