you got... A data point on offshoring

[Shankar <ss_rajanala -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

>From the About Dictionary.com page:

The dictionaries that appear on Dictionary.com
include: 

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English
Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights
reserved. 
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996,
1998 MICRA, Inc. 
WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University 
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, ©
1993-2001 Denis Howe 
Jargon File 4.2.0 
CIA World Factbook (1995) 
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary 
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary 
U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau 

=========and it has, to wit, the following:
microserf

<jargon> Wired magazine's term for a Microsoft
employee.

-----and this:
microserf

/mi:'kro-s*rf/ [popularized, though not
originated,
by Douglas Copeland's book "Microserfs"] A
programmer at
Microsoft, especially a low-level coder with
little chance of fame
or fortune. Compare MicroDroid.

======== hence, tho it is accessible globally, it
is not accessed globally :-)



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