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English
Etymology
From cheese + -ware.
Pronunciation
Noun
cheeseware (uncountable)
- (computing, slang, derogatory) Exceptionally low-quality software.
- Synonyms: coasterware, crapware, crudware, (vulgar) shitware
2000 September 1, “The New Computers in School”, in Strategic Finance:Perhaps most important, it has removed us even further from the "gee whiz!" mind-set that dominated our first reactions to computing--a frame of mind that made us so appreciative of the wondrous complexity of those putty-colored boxes that we became vulnerable to the half-baked, the beta, and even the well-marketed cheeseware.
2002 January 3, John Capriotti, “Re: Walmart: Games in DVD cases??”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet):Many of the games they stock now are already in the mini-boxes, new titles not just cheeseware.
2005 August 9, Phil Thompson, “Re: AOL Broadband”, in uk.telecom.broadband (Usenet):To run the AOL cheeseware on more than one machine at once (why, FFS, I have no idea) you need more "screen names" whatever they may be.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cheeseware.