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The headline is very confusing - "Microsoft beats Wall Street predictions with $22.6B revenue" would be a better choice.
by bearbin 10y ago
The headline is very confusing - "Microsoft beats Wall Street predictions with $22.6B revenue" would be a better choice.
- kyriakos 10y agoTechcrunch...
- jackmaney 10y agoAgreed. I spent several seconds wondering if there was either a subdivision of Microsoft or yet another overvalued start-up with the name of Street. I guess in the latter case, the name would be Streetly or Streetr or something equally dumb.
- devcamcar 10y agostreet.io :/
- allengeorge 10y agoReally? "Street" is a pretty common term for Wall Street (aka. the consensus opinion of analysts) I've definitely seen it for years.
- chenster 10y agoI hate English.
- jessriedel 10y agoI had no idea what it was. Presumed it was some new startup.
- TheWiseOne3 10y agoThat's like suggesting we should dumb-down computer programming article titles so people ignorant of the article and anything it contains might somehow get an inkling what their missing out on.
- csixty4 10y agoI'm used to seeing it in financial news. But this is a tech site. Different audience. Just like how I cringe when I see terms like "the cloud" in Business Week or one of those magazines.
- jonknee 10y agoWell it's an article about quarterly earnings, it's OK to use financial terms.
- mfoy_ 10y ago"the Street" or "Street's estimate" or something to provide more context. I also thought "Street" was some tech thing that was competing against some Microsoft business line.
- nl 10y ago*beat the Street" is a very common term. Google N-Grams has it being roughly 1/10th as popular as the term "silicon valley" or "wall street"[1]. That's a pretty significant amount of usage. [1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=beat+the+Street%2Cwall+street%2Csilicon+valley&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cbeat%20the%20Street%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cwall%20street%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Csilicon%20valley%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=beat+the+Stree...