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Windoze en · PROPN

Etymology

Blend of Windows + doze, suggesting slow performance. First use appears c. 1986. See cite below.

Meanings

  1. (slang) Microsoft Windows.
    • My big fear was that they'd use some kind of weirdo operating system, but it turned out just to be Windoze. And not Windoze Millennium, NT, or '98, or even '95, but Windoze 3.1 2006, Anthony McGowan, Hellbent, page 118:
    • Every point and counterpoint is peppered with derisive terms such as "Windoze," "File Mangler," and "PeeCees." 1986, PC Communications Corporation, PC Magazine, The Independent Guide to IBM-standard Personal Computing · Volume 15, page 85:
    • I've had it with the Windoze Gestapo. They want to make everyone use Windoze. They have propogandize^([sic]) the public through computer publications and large newspapers. 1997 February 19, ROWE BOBBY S, “Defend yourself against the Windoze Gestapo”, in alt.destroy.microsoft (Usenet):

Relateds

Winblows · Windross

Translations (3)

pt Ruindows (derogatory: Microsoft Windows) · de Windoof (derogatory: Microsoft Windows) · fr Windaube (derogatory: Microsoft Windows)