Microspeak: Double-click and drill down - The Old New Thing
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- Microspeak refers to jargon needed to survive at Microsoft, not just exclusive term.
- The term 'drill down' is used at Microsoft to mean delving deeper into a topic, with verb, noun ('drill-down'), and adjective forms.
- Microsoft Writing Style Guide approves 'drill down' for data analysis but discourages metaphorical use, providing hyphenation rules.
- Around 2020-2021, 'double-click' emerged as a cringier synonym for 'drill down', used more in speech than writing.
- The author finds 'double-click' bothersome and suggests using 'drill down' instead.