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Microsoftian en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English Microsoft Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Microsoftian From Microsoft + -ian.

Meanings

  1. (informal) Of or relating to Microsoft, or its products.
    • In yearning for black plastic soul and adopting a naive fanboy perspective on music and videogames, Blandy replicates the Microsoftian rhetoric of frictionless capitalism […] 2006, Art Papers Magazine, volume 30, numbers 1-5, page 56:
    • However, Apple’s online listing of .Mac System status for the last 30 days looks almost Microsoftian. 2006, Christopher Neher, “What's wrong with .Mac?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 13 Nov 2006:

Forms

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Synonyms

Redmondian

Translations (2)

ru майкрософтовский (relating to Microsoft) · fr microsoftien (relating to Microsoft)