noun
Microsoft
MYK-ruh-soft
noun
1
By extension, any company whose products or brand become so common that they dominate everyday use.
"Locals joked that the coffee chain had become the Microsoft of breakfast."
verb
1
To make something behave or look like a Microsoft product, often used disparagingly of clunky software design.
"The new update completely microsofted the once-simple app with menus nobody needed."
How to Use Microsoft
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishUsed loosely to describe anything that acts like the tech giant Microsoft, either in market dominance or in software style.
Easily confused with
microsofted
Word Forms
Microsofted past tense, Microsofts plural, Microsofts singular
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Etymology
A blend of "microcomputer" and "software," coined when the company was founded in the 1970s to sell software for early personal computers.