Microsoft

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɒft/
• (General American, without the cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɔft/, /ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌsɔft/
• (General American, cot–caught merger, dialects of Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɑft/, /ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌsɑft/
• (Canada, dialects of the US) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɒft/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑekɹəˌsɔft/

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• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɒft/

Microsoft

1. (trademark) Microsoft Corporation.

   Synonyms: (initialism) MS, (Nasdaq symbol, abbreviation) MSFT

Microsoft (plural Microsofts)

1. (figuratively) A company whose products are widespread.
   • 1995 August 21, Robert Metcalfe, “Microsoft and Netscape open some new fronts in escalating Web Wars”, in InfoWorld, volume 17, number 34, page 35:

     After its phenomenal stock offering two weeks ago, Netscape Communications Corp. is well on its way to becoming the Microsoft of the Internet.

   • 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 (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 business practices and tactics.
   • 2003, Wine Enthusiast, volume 16, numbers 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.

• Category:Microsoft

• Microsoft on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

Microsoft

1. Microsoft

• microsoftos
• Microsoft-termék

Unadapted borrowing from English Microsoft.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaj.krɔ.sɔft/
• Rhymes: -ajkrɔsɔft
• Syllabification: Mi‧cro‧soft

Microsoft m inan

1. Microsoft (American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington)

• Microsoft in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Microsoft Corporation in PWN's encyclopedia

• Màjkrosoft (Montenegro, Serbia)

Borrowed from English Microsoft.

• IPA^(key): /mǎjkrosoft/

Microsoft m inan (Cyrillic spelling Ма̀јкрософт)

1. (uncountable) Microsoft

• “Microsoft”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025