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Other Corporate Idioms

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(Thanks to Jill & Steph for the content.)

Comments (2)

slbush:

I thought of the phrase "eating your own dogfood," while watching Bill Gates on the Daily Show yesterday. This is corporate-speak (or maybe more specifically, corporate high-tech speak) for having to consume the products your company produces, no matter how buggy, crufty, etc. This is frequently used in reference to Microsoft specifically, due to their engineers having to use their own OS releases as their development environment.

Anonymous:

sometimes eating your own dogfood seems like the fair thing to do. especially if you're a microsoft engineer.

"crufty." there's a good word.

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