Someone who lives to test prerelease, or “beta,” software.

A contest among programmers to park in the weirdest position in the notoriously jammed Microsoft lot, named after the guy who did it first.

When you’ve installed the latest version of Windows 95 on the computer you use every day-and it doesn’t work.

Target customer, a.k.a. technophobe Lillian Silverberg, mom of a Microsoft VP. Ease-of-use test, as in “Can Brad’s mom figure this out?”