One size fits all policy
Recently, in couple of newspaper articles and research reports I saw the use of abbreviation SMB. The articles and reports had not specified the full form of the term anywhere; which implied that this is common jargon understood by everyone. Embarrassed by my ignorance, I sought the help of St. Google, who referred me to St. Wiki for enlightenment. St. Wiki suggested that it may mean "Server Message Block", a network communication protocol for providing shared access to files, printers, and serial ports between nodes on a network. This explanation did not match the context of the articles and reports. Perplexed, I further probed St. Google, who finally provided the answer I was looking for, i.e., "Small and Medium Businesses". Since ages we were used to the term "SME" for this, and never realized that "SME" has been subsumed by the new term "MSME" since 2007, when the central government created a new union ministry for Micro,...