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Microspeak en · PROPN

Etymology

Blend of Microsoft + -speak.

Meanings

  1. (informal) The computer and business jargon associated with Microsoft.
    • Actually, preview, in Microspeak, is what blunter software companies call "beta" — meaning incomplete, buggy, and unsupported. 2002, James Gleick, What just happened: a chronicle from the information frontier:
    • 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). 2004, Sarah Milstein, Rael Dornfest, Google: the missing manual, page 174:
    • Welcome to the world of Microspeak — the unofficial language of Microsoft. 2003, Steven Lattimore McShane, Mary Ann Young Von Glinow, Organizational behavior: