Microsoft

From Microsoft, name of the computing company; a blend of microcomputer +‎ software. See -soft.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɒft/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɔft/, /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɑft/, /ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌsɔft/, /ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌsɑft/

Microsoft (plural Microsofts)

1. (figuratively) A company whose products are widespread.
   • 2001, Daniel Charles, Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food →ISBN, page 110:

     Similarly, said Fraley, farmers were going to demand Bt cotton or Roundup-resistant soybean plants no matter where they went shopping for seeds. Monsanto would be the Microsoft of agriculture.

   • 2005, Merrill Goozner, The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs →ISBN, page 64:

     The company wanted to turn Celera into the Microsoft of the gene-hunting world, selling its version of the human genome to private or public gene hunters through a proprietary computer program.

   • 2006, Andrew Beaujon, Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock →ISBN, page 232:

     Shepherding is more or less gone (though there’s an interesting move back toward discipleship in today’s church especially among those influenced by Rick Warren’s blockbuster book The Purpose-Driven Life), but Integrity remains as sort of the Microsoft of worship music.

• Microsoft on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Microsoft (third-person singular simple present Microsofts, present participle Microsofting, simple past and past participle Microsofted)

1. (transitive, slang) to Microsoftify.
2. (transitive, slang) to make more like Microsoft with regards to perceived business practices and tactics.
   • 2003, Wine Enthusiast, volume 16, issues 2-8, page 122:

     You could call it the Microsofting of the wine industry. Of course, wine is unlikely to be dominated by one producer or one distributor.

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• IPA^(key): [ˈmikrosoft], [ˈmaːjkrosoft]
• Hyphenation: Mic‧ro‧soft

Microsoft

1. Microsoft

• microsoftos
• Microsoft-termék

English Microsoft

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaj.krɔ.sɔft/

Microsoft m

1. Microsoft

• (Montenegro, Serbia) Màjkrosoft

English Microsoft.

• IPA^(key): /mǎjkrosoft/

Microsoft m (Cyrillic spelling Ма̀јкрософт)

1. (uncountable) Microsoft

• “Microsoft” in Hrvatski jezični portal