black box

Our developer J wrote a tool for our language experts to use.

Tomomi, our Japanese language expert, gave up trying to install the tool and went to our tester R for help:

"R, can you help me out with the black box?" Tomomi asked.

"Black box? What black box?" R asked, I could almost see him wince at the B word - testers and us program managers particularly dislike having anything to do with the term black box.

R went to Tomomi's desk and saw a black box on her display. It was the command prompt...

The tool Tomomi wanted to install has to be done so in the command prompt. Therefore Tomomi did "Run" and typed "cmd." For the first time in her life, Tomomi saw command prompt, aka the black box.

Her cubicle exploded in laughters. We couldn't believe this happened in Microsoft.

... Microsoft did change the way people use computers, and perhaps the way many live.