Microspeak

English Etymology en Microsoft -speak. Proper noun en informal The computer and business jargon associated with Microsoft. en 2002 James Gleick What just happened: a chronicle from the information frontier Actually, preview, in Microspeak, is what blunter software companies call "beta" — meaning incomplete, buggy, and unsupported. en 2003 Steven Lattimore McShane; Mary Ann Young Von Glinow Organizational behavior Welcome to the world of Microspeak — the unofficial language of Microsoft. en 2004 Sarah Milstein; Rael Dornfest Google: the missing manual 174 The browser buttons, shown in Figure 7-1, are simply links that you can place on the same toolbar that holds your most frequently used bookmarks (known as "favorites" in Microspeak). en Microsoft