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  • adjective informal Of or relating to Microsoft Inc., or its products.

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Microsoft +‎ -ian

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Examples

  • As for Apple being "Microsoftian", as someone has already pointed out, MS tried (try?) to get rid of competing software so they could impose their own solutions as a standard.

    Cult of Mac 2010

  • Their aversion could soon reach Microsoftian proportions.

    Gazprom: The New Airbus 2009

  • Well, see, Google has this teeny-tiny image problem for kind of, um, well, not playing so nice with other companies and not respecting other people's intellectual property and kind of, um, being a little Microsoftian about trying to screw people with whom it makes "partnerships."

    Wall Street turns on Google 2007

  • The inimitable Ben Barren joined the ever-Microsoftian Cameron Reilly one recent sunny South Melbourne morning for a skinny latte and a podcast, interspersed with Gameboy tech support for Cam's two sprogs.

    Ben Barren on G'Day World 2005

  • The inimitable Ben Barren joined the ever-Microsoftian Cameron Reilly one recent sunny South Melbourne morning for a skinny latte and a podcast, interspersed with Gameboy tech support for Cam's two sprogs.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • But in its Microsoftian manner, the company will surely power up the Windows 8 hoopla machine long before it has a product to sell - perhaps as soon as CEO Steve Ballmer's keynote at the

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • But in its Microsoftian manner, the company will surely power up the Windows 8 hoopla machine long before it has a product to sell - perhaps as soon as CEO Steve Ballmer's keynote at the

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • And you're glossing a bit too quickly over the fact that Google bought a company and then killed its iPhone app - which, if it's not a Microsoftian move, it sure looks like it so far.

    MacDailyNews webmaster@macdailynews.com 2010

  • They showed a Microsoftian level of cluelessness about privacy and security.

    Chicago Boyz Jonathan 2010

  • I began working on the icon designs for Slickerfox shortly after the release of 3.0 in mid 2008 after being disappointed in the heavy use of Microsoftian designs.

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

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