In the comments for this Slashdot review of the book “Microsoft in the Mirror”, Prostoalex linked to his lexicon of Microsoft Jaron. It’s similar (but unrelated) to the Jargon File, but it’s specific to Jargon within Microsoft.
Some of the entries have since crept into widespread corporate use, such as bandwidth (as in “time”), but most of them were new to me. And, one of my favorites is probably “ask” as a noun:
Ask: Used as a noun, preceded by “the,” as in “What’s the ask?”, which basically means “What are you asking?”, or “What’s the bottom line?”, or, more simply, “What’s the question?” Essentially, then, a gratuitous verb-to-noun transmogrification, creating a useless synonym for question.
I can almost understand its purpose, but I still find it amusing — I almost feel like adopting it as my exclamation-of-choice (as in “What the ask?!”). Of course, that usage wouldn’t make sense in real life or even in the context of Microsoft jargon ;).