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Inside Microsoft’s chaos vocabulary: A former engineer explains why phrases like “even the fires are on fire” weren’t jokes, they were survival tools

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Raymond Chen revealed that the team even maintained a “fires” channel, used to report disasters and coordinate efforts to mitigate them.
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Inside Microsoft’s chaos vocabulary: A former engineer explains why phrases like “even the fires are on fire” weren’t jokes, they were survival tools

Raymond Chen revealed that the team even maintained a “fires” channel, used to report disasters and coordinate efforts to mitigate them.

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Windows Central broke the news in on Monday, February 2, 2026.
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