Microsoft

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Microsoft Corporation.

2. 2

   A company whose products are widespread.

   • After its phenomenal stock offering two weeks ago, Netscape Communications Corp. is well on its way to becoming the Microsoft of the Internet.
   • 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.
   • 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.
3. 3

   To Microsoftify.

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   1. 4

      To render more like Microsoft with regards to business practices and tactics.

      • 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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