user-obsequious

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

user-obsequious
 adj.

   Emphatic form of {user-friendly}. Connotes a system so verbose,
   inflexible, and determinedly simple-minded that it is nearly unusable.
   "Design a system any fool can use and only a fool will want to use
   it." See {WIMP environment}, {Macintrash}.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

user-obsequious

   <jargon> Emphatic form of {user-friendly}.  Connotes a system
   so verbose, inflexible, and determinedly simple-minded that it
   is nearly unusable.  "Design a system any fool can use and
   only a fool will want to use it."

   See {WIMP}, {Macintrash}.

   See also {user-unctuous}.

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1999-06-27)

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