Forwarded by: Richard Forno <rfornoat_private> For his novel "1984" George Orwell developed "Newspeak", a modified English language using ambiguous or deceptive words, metaphors, or euphemisms to influence public opinion on various matters - a common business practice refined to an exacting science by news media, marketing companies, and corporate PR departments. Nowhere is Newspeak more perfected than in the halls of the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington - a place where legions of well-paid spin-meisters attempt to morph the reality of their company's business, legal, and product information into innocuous -sounding, politically-correct, calm-inducing statements when released to the public. Naturally, this has a confusing effect on the general public who is unfamiliar with this particular form of language. As a public service, this article contains a helpful list of terms used by the company and what, in reality - not Newspeak - such terms actually mean. It's my hope that such insight - culled from personal experience and the input of other technology professionals - will cut through the Newspeak fog and assist readers in determining for themselves what Microsoft is really saying in its public statements. The Microsoft-English Dictionary is organized into four sections: (1) Legal, Marketing, and Internet Community Terms; (2) Security-Oriented Terms; (3) Product-Related Terms; and (4) Miscellaneous Terms. Article Found at: http://www.infowarrior.org/articles/2001-04.html ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email isn-unsubscribeat_private
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