windoze

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

Windoze
 /win'dohz/, n.

   See {Microsloth Windows}. (Also Losedoze.)

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

Microsloth Windows
Windoze

   <abuse, operating system> /mi:'kroh-sloth" win"dohz/ (Or
   "Windoze", /win'dohz/) A derogatory term for {Microsoft
   Windows} which is so limited by bug-for-bug compatibility with
   {mess-dos} that it is agonisingly slow on anything less than a
   fast {486}.  Also called just "Windoze", with the implication
   that you can fall asleep waiting for it to do anything; the
   latter term is extremely common on {Usenet}.

   Compare {X}, {sun-stools}.

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1996-10-08)