Acronyms Profound! Representation Organic! Novel / Yare Mnemonics! Self-evident!
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| CAIRO | Can Another Incarnation Recruit Others? |
Sean Lamb (Cairo was Microsoft's code name for Windows NT 4.0, which was supposed to get everyone off the Win9x kernel series) |
| FLAWS | Faulty - Like A Windoze System |
Angela Brett Assorted Nouns |
| GPF | Greatly Pooched Files |
Sean Lamb, referring to the results of a General Protection Fault. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| INDIGO | It Never Did Integrate Global Objects |
Sean Lamb (Indigo is Microsoft's code name for the .NET communication technologies) Names:Code Names:Microsoft |
| KORGO | Keyboard Output Recorder Generates Opening |
Sean Lamb (Korgo is the name of a new worm that exploits a hole in Windows security and installs a keylogger, sending the keystrokes to a remote, malicious computer) |
| LONGHORN | Late Or Not, Gates Holds Out. Releases Nothing |
Sean Lamb (the next version of Microsoft Windows, codenamed Longhorn, has now been delayed until 2006). Names:Code Names:Microsoft |
| MCP | Mastered Crappy Programs |
Angela Brett (MCP usually stands for Microsoft Certified Professional) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Education:Qualifications |
| MEMPHIS | Maybe Every Microsoft Programmer Hates Information Services |
Sean Lamb (Memphis was the code name Microsoft used for Windows 98) Names:Code Names:Microsoft |
| MONOPOLIST | Microsoft Owns Ninety-Odd Percent Of Labels In Software Trade. |
Angela Brett, who hopes that figure isn't true. |
| NTFS | Not Trustworthy, Format Soon! |
Kuroneko, discussing the correct expansion of NTFS, which usually stands for New Technology File System. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| PC | Plastic Crap |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| PUTER | Pathetic Useless Tangled Electronic Rubbish! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| RAPIER | Redmond Application Platform Is Engineered Roughly |
Sean Lamb (Rapier is Microsoft's code name for Windows CE 3.0 for Pocket PC version 2) Names:Code Names:Microsoft |
| RUGRAT | Ruffians Use Gadgets, Release A Trojan |
Sean Lamb (Rugrat is the name of the first 64-bit Windows virus discovered 5/27/04) |
| TWITCH | There's Windoze In This Computer... Help! |
Angela Brett |
| VFAT | Verily, Files Are Truncated |
Sean Lamb (VFAT = Virtual File Allocation Table; the filesystem type that Windows 98 uses) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| WHISTLER | "Windows Has Inconsistencies" Said The Laboratory Engineer Relentlessly |
Sean Lamb (Whistler was the internal code name used by Microsoft for Windows XP) Names:Code Names:Microsoft |
| WINDOWS | Will I Never Discover Original, Wondrous Software? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| WINFS | Well, It's Not Fail Safe |
Sean Lamb (WinFS is yet another Microsoft acronym [a Micronym?] for WINdows Future Storage, which was originally planned to be included in the upcoming Longhorn release) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| WIX | Will It Xtinguish? |
Sean Lamb (WiX really means Windows Installer Xml; Microsoft's latest attempt to "embrace and extend" XML) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| WMV | Watch My Video |
WMV usually stands for Windows Media Video Re-expansions of existing acronyms |