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The headline is very confusing - "Microsoft beats Wall Street predictions with $22.6B revenue" would be a better choice.

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Really? "Street" is a pretty common term for Wall Street (aka. the consensus opinion of analysts) I've definitely seen it for years.

I had no idea what it was. Presumed it was some new startup.

"the Street" or "Street's estimate" or something to provide more context. I also thought "Street" was some tech thing that was competing against some Microsoft business line.

I hate English.

other languages also use things metonymously, so maybe hating human cognition is a safer bet.

Right on. You don't know what you are talking about.

I'm used to seeing it in financial news. But this is a tech site. Different audience.

Just like how I cringe when I see terms like "the cloud" in Business Week or one of those magazines.

Well it's an article about quarterly earnings, it's OK to use financial terms.

Agreed. I spent several seconds wondering if there was either a subdivision of Microsoft or yet another overvalued start-up with the name of Street.

I guess in the latter case, the name would be Streetly or Streetr or something equally dumb.

street.io :/

*beat the Street" is a very common term. Google N-Grams has it being roughly 1/10th as popular as the term "silicon valley" or "wall street"[1]. That's a pretty significant amount of usage.

[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=beat+the+Stree...

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