Citations:Microsoftify

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English citations of Microsoftify

in the sense of "to make (something) Microsoft-flavored"

    • 1996 August 20, Benjamin Smith <[email protected]>, "Re: Ben, could you read this?", comp.sys.mac.advocacy, Usenet,
      Netscape implements some intereesting things but they always seem to do a half-ass job. Look at frames, it sucks on Navigator. At least the redmond gang was intuitive enough to add some nice touches to it like frameless, floating frames.
      That's why IE 3.0, after being released has a serious bug. Netscape makes half-assed technology and so does Microsoft. MS likes to Microsoftify other technology. There are a lot of reported bugs with Internet Explorer 3.0.
    • 1997 July 10, Benjamin Smith <[email protected]>, "Re: Microsoft is onmipotent", comp.sys.mac.advocacy, et al., Usenet,
      Right now it is a battle as to whether MS will gain any momentum in their attempt to "Microsoftify" Java and we'll end up with Microsoft's Java and a more or less standard Java.
    • 1998 September 4, Justin B. <[email protected]>, "Networking Essentials - a ? and my advice", microsoft.public.win95.networking, Usenet,
      That is, you need to know the Microsoft answers to questions about networking, as opposed the the real answers about networking. MS has a tendency to "Microsoftify" networking concepts.
    • 2001 July 6, Klas Engwall <[email protected]>, "Re: clipper to windows", comp.lang.clipper, Usenet,
      And I really don't like the way that they try to dominate in every area and "Microsoftify" everything. For example, this week I discovered a strange little thing in Internet Explorer. When I saved a web page, an extra line was inserted in the file saying that the contents was "MSHTML".