> "Financial envelope"? You don't literally keep all of Microsoft's cash in a big envelope, do you? Why is he deriding the usage of the word "envelope" in this

> "Financial envelope"? You don't literally keep all of Microsoft's cash in a big envelope, do you? Why is he deriding the usage of the word "envelope" in this context? Doesn't "envelope" just mean the range of allowed values of some operational parameter? Somehow, it makes total sense to me. I'd be very surprised if engineers at MSFT didn't understand it.