On 'Seamless Computing' and Other Microspeak:
"You can tell a lot about a company by the phrases it coins. And Microsoft continues to mint some telltale ones.

More than a few Microsoft-spawned terms have made their way into the wider tech lexicon. Think 'dogfooding,' 'show stopper,' 'three-finger salute,' etc.

(Hats off to the MicroNews crew, the folks who produce Microsoft's internal company newsletter, for keeping tabs on the latest lingo from Redmond, documenting everything from 'blibbets' to 'Lake Bill.')"

Check a Partial Guide to Microspeak (from MicroNews)

But Microspeak is always morphing. Just this past week, we heard Chairman Bill Gates toss around his seeming new favorite: "Seamless Computing." Gates used the term in both his Comdex keynote and subsequent press interviews, ad nauseum.


Microsoft execs first began talking about seamless computing (no "TM," but Microsoft is using initial caps when referring to the term) back in 2001, when the company rolled out Windows XP.

Microsoft seems to be equating Seamless Computing with interoperability. But Redmond's kind of Seamless Computing isn't focused interoperability among heterogeneous systems and software from different vendors (which is what most folks mean when they talk interoperability). Instead, Seamless Computing, according to Microsoft, is all about interconnecting Windows-based systems, from the Auto PC, to the Media Center PC, to the data-center hub.…

http://www.gisuser.co.nz/pdfs/MicroSpeak.pdf

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,4248,1394053,00.asp