VB

(computer languages) Initialism of Visual Basic


DC

en-noun

DC (countable and uncountable, plural DCs)

(computing, Microsoft Windows) Initialism of device context.


MS

Initialism of Microsoft: an American multinational technology company founded in 1975.


PE

In ELF executables, there aren't a whole lot of code caves (such as in the PE format), so you are not likely to be able to shove more than just a meager amount of shellcode into existing code slots […]

2016, Ryan "elfmaster" O'Neill, Learning Linux Binary Analysis (page 97)

Portable Executable
portable executable#English

(software) Initialism of Portable Executable (executable file format used by modern versions of Microsoft Windows).


ME

(computing) Alternative letter-case form of Me (“Windows Me (Millennium Edition)”).


MC

(video games, informal) Initialism of Minecraft.


ribbon

ribbon (countable and uncountable, plural ribbons)

→ Japanese: リボン (ribon)

→ Korean: 리본 (ribon)

From Middle English riban, ryban, ryband, from Old French riban, ruban ( > modern French ruban), of uncertain origin. Likely from a Germanic compound whose second element is cognate with English band. Compare Middle Dutch ringhband (“necklace”, literally “ring-band”).

cog

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.


STS

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation
w:SharePoint

(software) Initialism of SharePoint Team Services (the first name given to Microsoft SharePoint Foundation).


MSN

(computing) Initialism of Microsoft Network.


recycle bin

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-recycle bin.wav

First sense appears c. 1971, in the Arizona Daily Sun. Computing sense appears in 1995 with the Windows 95 operating system.

trash

sense 2, on other operating systems and emails

(computing) In Microsoft Windows, a storage location for deleted files, from which they can be retrieved or permanently deleted.

سَلَّة الْمَحْذُوفَات

(computing) in Microsoft Windows, a storage location for deleted files


forest

en-noun

forest (countable and uncountable, plural forests)

forced (US, sometimes especially in fast speech)

From Middle English forest, from Old French forest, from Early Medieval Latin forestis, likely from Frankish or Proto-West Germanic *furhisti (“forest, fir-grove, wooded land”); related to Old English fyrhþe (“forested land”), Old High German forst, forsti (“forest”), Old Norse fýri (“pine forest”). Doublet of frith.
In this sense, mostly displaced the native Middle English wode, from Old English wudu (modern English wood) and Middle English wold, wald, wæld, from Old English weald (modern English wold, weald).

der

Forests are considered the security boundary in Active Directory; by this we mean that if you need to definitively restrict access to a resource within a particular domain so that administrators from other domains do not have any access to it whatsoever, you need to implement a separate forest instead of using an additional domain within the current forest.

2008, Laura E. Hunter, Robbie Allen, Active Directory Cookbook, O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 17:

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A group of domains that are managed as a unit.


defenestration

en-noun

defenestration (countable and uncountable, plural defenestrations)

Holy Roman Emperor
Johann Philipp Abelin
Theatrum Europaeum

From New Latin defenestratio, from dē (“from; out”) + fenestra (“window”) + -atio (suffix indicating an action or process); compare Middle French défenestrer (modern French défenestrer), défenestration, Italian defenestrazione and
German Fenstersturz. The verb defenestrate was formed later.

Defenestration might be an option too. May I recommend Linux?

1998 November 1, “Dorian Bliss”, “He’s dead, Jim”, in rec.humor.oracle.d (Usenet), message-ID <363DA726.C27FA5F@spamfree.land>:

It's defenestration day in Redmond today. A clearly stunned Microsoft did what it could to pretend that Judge Jackson's findings of fact were "just one step", as [Bill] Gates put said in the prepared statement that he read at a press conference last night, but it was hopeless.

1999 November 6, Graham Lea, “Stunned MS vows to fight on for freedom: ‘Integrity, partnership, quality … giving’ – (takes out onion)”, in The Register, archived from the original on 2014-08-19:

No defenestration here. Ask questions about all aspects of Windows programming, get help on Microsoft technologies covered in Apress books, or provide feedback on any Apress Windows book.

2002, John Kilburn, Palm Programming in Basic, Berkeley, Calif.: Apress, →ISBN, page 392:

What's needed is defenestration – throwing out the Windows mindset along with Microsoft's licenses and software – but that's not as simple as changing a boot CD or even migrating a whole raft of servers. What's involved is fundamental change both in how IT operates and in what it does.

2004 February 12, Paul Murphy, “What does Linux cost?”, in LinuxInsider: Linux News & Information from around the World, archived from the original on 2016-03-11:

Traditionally, the verb defenestrate means to throw out of a window. But as Australian companies take their first timid steps towards installing non-proprietary software on corporate desktops, defenestration is starting to be linked to the throwing out of Windows software.

2005 December 1, D. Braue, P. Gray, L. Colquhoun, J.-V. Douglas, “Leaders of the pack”, in MIS Asia: Managing Information Strategies, archived from the original on 2007-10-07:

(computing, humorous) The act of removing the Microsoft Windows operating system from a computer in order to install an alternative one.


UAE

(computing, obsolete) Initialism of unrecoverable application error (the standard Microsoft Windows error message in Win16)


wallpaper

wallpaper (countable and uncountable, plural wallpapers)

You can design your own wallpaper using Paintbrush. A wallpaper appears on your desktop in tiles. The number of tiles that are needed to cover the desktop depends on the size of the canvas you use to create a wallpaper.

1997, Richard Dungworth, Philippa Wingate, Windows 3.1 & Windows 95 for Beginners, page 65:

(computing, countable, uncountable) An image or tiled pattern used as the background of a computer desktop.


junction

→ Bengali: জংশন (joṅśon)

→ Japanese: ジャンクション

/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/

From Latin iūnctiō (“union, joining, uniting”), from iungō (“join, attach together”). Equivalent to join + -tion.

der

(programming) In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.


cab

(software, Windows) Clipping of cabinet file (“a compress library archive file”).


shortcut

There are shortcuts to some of my favourite applications on my desktop.

(computing, in the Microsoft family of operating systems) A file that points to the location of another file and serves as a quick way to access it.

keyboard shortcut
keyboard shortcut#English

(computing) Short for keyboard shortcut.


lapis

Lapis, opal, &c. are poliſh'd on a wooden wheel. To faſhion and Engrave vaſes of agate, cryſtal, lapis, or the like, they make uſe of a kind of lathe like that us'd by pewterers, excepting that as the pewterers lathe holds the veſſels, which are to be wrought with proper tools; that of the Engraver generally holds the tools which are turn'd by a wheel, and the veſſels held to them to be cut and engraven either in relievo or otherwiſe; [...]

1735, [John Barrow], “ENGRAVING”, in Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested. […], volume I (A–H), London: […] C[harles] Hitch and C[harles] Davis […], and S[amuel] Austen […], →OCLC:

French Bead Necklace of lapis or carnelian color, with crystal rondelles between each bead, graduated, 32 inches long.

1923 (reprinted 1993), Franklin Simon Fashion Catalog for 1923 (Franklin Simon & Co, New York), item number 53

That lapis lazuli in particular among the precious and semi-precious stones known from Mesopotamia was accorded considerable value in antiquity may be inferred from the archaeological record through association with high-status locii and goods. [...] deities receive votive gifts and booty of lapis, consisting of items of personal adornment and cult objects, while their temples are described as decorated with lapis or shining like lapis. [...] For example, the contents of the graves in the Royal Cemetery of Ur: [...] various objects employing inlay that include lapis among the insets, [...] Mari sent an emissary to acquire lapis from Lars.

2010, Irene Winter, editor, On Art in the Ancient Near East: From the Third Millennium B.C.E., page 291:

The buddha lands described in the Lotus share certain generic features: the ground is made of lapis or crystal; they are perfectly level, without mountains or valleys; they are free from all manner of filth, including the stench of latrines [...] The ground was made of lapis lazuli, [...]

2011, Daniel Boscaljon, Hope and the Longing for Utopia: Futures and Illusions in Theology and Narrative, page 99:


silo

From Spanish silo, of unclear origin. See Spanish silo for more.

(computing) In Microsoft Windows operating systems, a kernel object for isolating groups of threads.


hive

From Middle English hyve, from Old English hȳf, from Proto-West Germanic *hūfi (compare Dutch huif (“beehive”), Danish dialect huv (“ship’s hull”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kuHp- (“water vessel”) (compare Latin cūpa (“tub, vat”), Ancient Greek κύπη (kúpē, “gap, hole”), κύπελλον (kúpellon, “beaker”), Sanskrit कूप (kū́pa, “cave”)), from *kew- (“to bend, curve”). Doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve. The computing term was chosen as an in-joke relating to bees; see https://web.archive.org/web/20150715222122/http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/08/54618.aspx.

Windows builds the registry from the five registry hives[…]

2006, Jean Andrews, Fixing Windows XP, page 352:

For devices built with hive-based registry implementation, the registry data are broken into three different hives — the boot hive, system hive, and user hive.

2011, Samuel Phung, Professional Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0:

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.


assembly

en-noun

assembly (countable and uncountable, plural assemblies)

From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée). By surface analysis, assemble + -y.

assembly language
assembly language#English

(computing) Ellipsis of assembly language.

assembly-kieli

short for assembly language — see also assembly language

(computing, Microsoft .NET) A building block of an application, similar to a DLL, but containing both executable code and information normally found in a DLL's type library. The type library information in an assembly, called a manifest, describes public functions, data, classes, and version information.


safe mode

(computing) A troubleshooting mode of many operating systems in which most advanced functions are not activated.


Wintel

“We used to produce our publication on the Mac, but the Wintel platform is cheaper and there are just as many applications available. So it just seemed to make sense to give up the religious war and get on with the business of doing our job,” said the information systems manager at a New York-based magazine, who asked not to be named.

1996 September 23, “Intel attacks Mac publishing niche”, in Computerworld, volume 30, number 39, →ISSN, page 56:

(informal) The popular computing environment of the Microsoft Windows operating system running on an Intel CPU.


BSOD

blue screen of death
blue screen of death#English

(computing) Initialism of blue screen of death.

(computing) Initialism of black screen of death.


BSOD

en-verb

BSOD (third-person singular simple present BSODs, present participle BSODing, simple past and past participle BSODed or BSOD'd)

BSODs (present singular third-person)
BSODing (participle present)
BSODed (participle past)
BSODed (past)
BSOD'd (participle past)
BSOD'd (past)

blue screen of death
blue screen of death

(computing, of a computer system) To fail critically and display a blue screen of death.


Microsoft

From Microsoft, name of the computing company; a blend of microcomputer + software. See -soft.


Microsoftify

Microsoftify (third-person singular simple present Microsoftifies, present participle Microsoftifying, simple past and past participle Microsoftified)

Microsoftifies (present singular third-person)
Microsoftifying (participle present)
Microsoftified (participle past)
Microsoftified (past)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Microsoftify.

(transitive, informal) To assimilate into a Microsoft framework.


(computing, retronym) A naming convention in older MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows operating systems, restricting filenames to a maximum of eight characters followed by a period and a three-character file extension.


Excel

“Do you know Excel?” ¶ “No.” ¶ “Could you learn?” ¶ “Probably not. I find it very difficult to learn things I don't already know.” Then, remembering the advice that I try to sell myself, I added, “But I'm sure I'd pick it up eventually.”

2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 9:

(computing, software) A spreadsheet application software program written and distributed by Microsoft.


Me

Alternative form: ME

(computing) Windows Me (Millennium Edition).


WP

(international law) Initialism of Warsaw Pact.


WP

(software) Initialism of word processor.


IE

more widely and more freely in Indian English (IE) than in other international varieties

2007 March 23, Claudia Lange, “Focus marking in Indian English”, in English World-Wide. A Journal of Varieties of English, volume 28, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 89–118:

I examine three theses: (1) that IE is a substratum-laden

2007 December 19, Rajendra Singh, “The Nature, Structure, and Status of Indian English”, in Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, Mouton de Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 33–46:

Indian English (IE) is considered

2012 May 28, Pingali Sailaja, “Indian English: Features and Sociolinguistic Aspects”, in Language and Linguistics Compass, volume 6, number 6, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 359–370:


OCS

(communication, Microsoft, software) Initialism of Microsoft Office Communications Server (a software product)


MSF

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation
w:Microsoft SharePoint Foundation

(computing) Initialism of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation.


MS-DOS

In its MS-DOS, Version 6.22, Microsoft added a legally correct version of data compression and enhanced the operating system's safety features.

1994 August 29, John M. Goodman, “The DOS heavyweights go another round”, in InfoWorld, page 87:

Initialism of Microsoft Disk Operating System, an operating system for IBM-compatible personal computers in the 1980s and 1990s, eventually succeeded by standalone versions of Microsoft Windows.


WSS

(computing) Windows SharePoint Services, former name of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation


OWA

(Internet, computing) Initialism of Outlook Web Access.


blue screen of death

en-noun

blue screen of death (plural blue screens of death)

First use appears c. 1993 with the release of Windows NT 3.1. See cite below.

The only remaining problem is--NT still locks up the machine at exactly the same point. The only difference is that I don't get the blue screen of death--NT just freezes.

1993 October 10, tay...@saturn.brooks.af.mil, “NT Patch--doesn't fix Services for Macintosh”, in comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup (Usenet):

A Blue Screen of Death is like an encrypted message from your computer telling you there's a problem. We're going to help you make sense of the gobbledygook so you can fix whatever's ailing your PC!

2007, Paul Lilly, “BSOD Crash Course”, in Maximum PC, page 40:

(computing, informal) An error screen displayed by some operating systems, especially Microsoft Windows, after encountering an unrecoverable error which causes the system to shut down.


skype

en-verb

skype (third-person singular simple present skypes, present participle skyping or skypeing, simple past and past participle skyped)

skypes (present singular third-person)
skyping (participle present)
skypeing (participle present)
skyped (participle past)
skyped (past)

(transitive, computing) To make (a telephone call) using Skype software.

(transitive, computing) To send (a message or file) with Skype.

I'll skype you tomorrow. We can skype for a couple of hours.

While spatial mobility does cause discontinuity in social relationships and result in losing the support system from their home country (Rangaswamy 2000), yet the social ties of our participants have not dissolved as they have been able to maintain supportive networks in India through physical visits, e-mails, ‘skypeing’ to contacts in foreign places.

2013, S. Irudaya Rajan, editor, India Migration Report 2013: Social Costs of Migration, Routledge, →ISBN:

‘Where’s 007? He invited too?’ ‘He’s skypeing his mum. He’ll meet us down there.’

2015, Alan Carter, Bad Seed, Fremantle: Fremantle Press, →ISBN, page 123:

And so Andy went home, still on a caffeine high, feeling excited about life as a graduate student, and instead of skypeing with Anja or going for a beer, he went online and read up on some of the relevant particle physics.

2015, Denis O’Sullivan, The Anthropist: A Curious Tale of Parallel Monogamy, Sex, Religion, Quantum Mechanics and Volleyball, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 21:

(transitive, intransitive, computing) To contact (a person) via Skype.


tombstone

If you attempt to restore a backup that is older than the tombstone lifetime, it may introduce objects that were deleted […]

2008, Laura E. Hunter, Robbie Allen, Active Directory Cookbook, page 739:

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A marker that takes the place of deleted data, allowing for replication of the deletion across servers etc.

This actually results in a crash dump, which is written to the log and to a tombstone file.

2014, Joshua J. Drake, Zach Lanier, Collin Mulliner, Android Hacker's Handbook, page 186:


tombstone

tombstone (third-person singular simple present tombstones, present participle tombstoning, simple past and past participle tombstoned)

tombstones (present singular third-person)
tombstoning (participle present)
tombstoned (participle past)
tombstoned (past)

One of the many improvements in Windows 2000 WINS (and NT4 SP4) is the capability to selectively delete or tombstone records.

2000, William Boswell, Inside Windows 2000 Server, page 211:

(transitive, computing, Microsoft Windows) To replace (an object or data) with a tombstone marker.


PowerPoint

Proficiency in PowerPoint continues to be required for almost every office job.

Can I be candid? I think I am on this group because none of you can do PowerPoint. I am literally going to draw some rectangle shapes for the pillars. We won’t be having feathers or whatever. And there’s a limit to how many pillars will fit on a single slide.

2024 February 22, "Bartleby", “The making of a PowerPoint slide”, in The Economist:

(trademark) A software package from Microsoft used to make slideshow presentations.


USN

(computing, Microsoft Windows) Initialism of update sequence number.


briefcase

You create a briefcase called Files where you store all your important documents. The briefcase is stored on your Tablet PC's C: drive, and the source files reside on your server.

2004, Craig Forrest Mathews, Absolute Beginner's Guide to Tablet PCs, page 202:

(computing) In Microsoft Windows, a folder that supports file synchronization between itself and another folder.


VS

(computing) Initialism of Visual Studio: an integrated development environment.


MCSE

Initialism of Microsoft certified systems engineer.


tooltip

From tool + tip, originally used with toolbars to provide a tip or hint as to what function each graphical icon represented. The term was introduced as ToolTip by Microsoft in the 1990s.

(graphical user interface) An element of a graphical user interface in the form of a box of text that appears when a cursor is made to hover over an item; normally used to explain the function of the item.

hulpwenk

an element of a graphical user interface


SMP

Symbolic Manipulation Program
w:Symbolic Manipulation Program

(computing) Initialism of Symbolic Manipulation Program (“a computer algebra system and predecessor of Mathematica”).

Symbolic Manipulation Program

w:Plane (Unicode)#Supplementary Multilingual Plane

(computing) Initialism of Supplementary Multilingual Plane, one of the sets of character codepoints in Unicode; formally known as Plane 1, and comprising the range of codepoints from U+10000 through U+1FFFF.

Supplementary Multilingual Plane

Send More Paramedics
w:Send More Paramedics


MSFT

(Nasdaq symbol) Abbreviation of Microsoft.


Word

You have to type that up in Word.

(software) Microsoft Word, word processor software developed by Microsoft.


Wingdings

Blend of wing + dingbat, introduced as a trademark by Microsoft.

(computing, trademark) A dingbat font in which each character is represented by an unrelated symbol.


Microsoftian

en-adj

Microsoftian (comparative more Microsoftian, superlative most Microsoftian)

more Microsoftian (comparative)
most Microsoftian (superlative)

However, Apple’s online listing of .Mac System status for the last 30 days looks almost Microsoftian.

2006, Christopher Neher, “What's wrong with .Mac?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 2006-11-13:

In yearning for black plastic soul and adopting a naive fanboy perspective on music and videogames, Blandy replicates the Microsoftian rhetoric of frictionless capitalism […]

2006, Art Papers Magazine, volume 30, numbers 1-5, page 56:

(informal) Of or relating to Microsoft, or its products.


(video games) A Microsoft Xbox 360, a video game console.


WAMP

(Internet software) Initialism of Windows, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP/Perl/Python — a popular solution stack for use as a web server.


GDI

Graphics Device Interface
w:en:Graphics Device Interface

(computing, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows) Initialism of Graphics Device Interface.


Winsock

(computing) The Windows interface to TCP/IP.


WMF

Windows Media Format
w:Windows Media Format

(computing) Initialism of Windows Media Format.


WMF

(computing) Initialism of Windows Metafile.


registry

en-noun

registry (countable and uncountable, plural registries)

/ˈɹɛdʒɪstɹi/

A variant of registery, from Middle English regestery (“?a record book; ?a bookmark”), partly from Medieval Latin regesterium, registerium and probably also partly formed with -ery. Equivalent to register + -y.

inh

To unregister a DLL and remove the corresponding entries from the registry, add the /u switch to the command […]

1999, John Papa, C. Caison, Matt Brown, Professional ADO RDS programming with ASP, page 252:

(countable, computing) A database of configuration settings etc. maintained by the Microsoft Windows operating system.


MCP

(computing) Initialism of Microsoft Certified Professional.


tunneling

en-noun

tunneling (countable and uncountable, plural tunnelings)

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A feature of the file system that allows files to preserve certain properties, such as creation date, even after being deleted and recreated.


OOXML

(computing) Initialism of Office Open XML: a Microsoft file format for spreadsheets, charts, wordprocessed documents, etc.


VBScript

(computer languages) A scripting language that is a subset of Microsoft Visual Basic.


WIA

Windows Image Acquisition
w:Windows Image Acquisition

(computing) Initialism of Windows Image Acquisition.


wintard

Stop being such a Wintard and at least have the backbone required to acknowledge some brilliant engineering.

1999 March 23, Kevin M. “ktaggart” Taggart, ‘Re: "Infinite Loop"’, comp.sys.mac.advocacy, Usenet http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.advocacy/msg/c036c35907ca1380

How come you post all your wintard drivel in comp.os.linux.advocacy instead of windope.clippy.os.worshipper.advocacy where you can be more readily appreciated. LOL!!!

2006 June 25, “7” (author), “Re: [News] Windows 98 Users Headed for Linux?”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):

Wonder if the other Wintards around here get as large an allowance from their mommies as you obviously do?

2007 August 29, "nostop" (author), “Re: Why Vists is sometimes no more useful than a pile of wet dog crap”, in microsoft.public.windows.vista.general (Usenet):

(Internet slang, derogatory) A user or advocate of Microsoft Windows.


WPA

Windows Product Activation
w:Windows Product Activation

(computing) Initialism of Windows Product Activation.


WISA

Internet Information Services
w:Internet Information Services

Active Server Pages
w:Active Server Pages

(Internet) Acronym of Windows, Internet Information Services (web server), SQL Server, Active Server Pages: a Microsoft-based solution stack that can be used to create dynamic websites.


ICA

Innovative Communications Alliance
w:Innovative Communications Alliance

(computing, business) Initialism of Innovative Communications Alliance, an alliance formed by Microsoft and Nortel to develop unified communications products.


IIS

(computing) Initialism of Internet Information Services


ASMX

Active Server Method File, A file type used by Microsoft Windows servers.


XP

software engineering
software engineering

Extreme Programming
extreme programming#English

(software engineering) Initialism of Extreme Programming.


red ring of death

red ring of death (plural red rings of death)

Derived from blue screen of death, a type of failure on a personal computer running Microsoft Windows.

(video games) A fatal hardware exception in the Microsoft Xbox 360 video game console characterised by three or four red indicator LEDs around the power button.

Xbox 360 technical problems#General Hardware Failure errors


gamerscore

gamerscore (countable and uncountable, plural gamerscores)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-gamerscore.wav

From the trademark Gamerscore, from gamer + score.

(video games) Points accumulated by earning achievements in Xbox video games.


Xbox

From "DirectX box". In use since the announcement of the original Xbox in 2000.

The Xbox or the Arcade Game Box? That's weird. They knocked off the look of the Xbox with the PlayStation controller.

2015 June 24, “Top 10 Chinese Knockoffs of Foreign Products” (00:01:45 from the start), in China Uncensored, spoken by himself (Chris Chappell), New Tang Dynasty Television, via New Tang Dynasty Television:

(video games, trademark) Any of the home consoles in Microsoft's Xbox product line, especially the original Xbox.

Xbox

video game console manufactured and distributed by Microsoft


exe

And a final note, you should encrypt the password stored in the exe. The encryption doesn't have to be the strongest, possibly just even an ascii value shift, but atleast^([sic]) some level of encryption that will keep someone using a hex editor from noticing an unusual string of characters in plain english at the end of your exe.

1998 February 28, Michael Righi, “Can I keep PASSWORDS in the EXE file??”, in comp.lang.basic.visual.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-14:

I had write a form in a project that it will update the log number table when a click the "New Log Number" button. Everything seems OK when I run from the project!
But when I complied it to a exe and run the EXE and click the "New Log Number" button, an error message come out and the content is somthing^([sic]) about "cannot update the temp table"?

1999 November 29, Hector, “Error when run from the EXE”, in microsoft.public.fox.vfp.forms (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-14:

Make sure that you did not include the table with the exe, (you can not update a table built into the exe). That should fix your problem.

1999 November 29, Beth Walsh, “Error when run from the EXE”, in microsoft.public.fox.vfp.forms (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-14:

I have generated an EXE on the server then a shortcut in local drive C:\ . This shortcut starts in C:\MyDocuments (anyfolder). I'm trying to read a file located at the same place as the EXE so I need to get the full path name of the EXE.

2000 September 5, GG, “The exe FOLDER”, in comp.databases.gupta (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-14:

The exe name is NOT the project name: they are two different things. As soon as you save your project (after building an exe), whatever you built as your exe is the name it will always use for the exe. You can change the project name and it doesn't affect the exe name.

2003 September 18, Stephen J Whiteley, “How to change the name of the exe file?”, in microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-14:

(file format) A Windows executable file.


MDI

Microsoft Document Imaging format
w:Microsoft Document Imaging Format

(software, graphics) Initialism of Microsoft Document Imaging format.


JScript

(programming) A dialect of JavaScript developed by Microsoft.


Microsoftie

Craig Mundie, the software giant's chief technical officer, is not a typical Microsoftie.

An ex-Microsoftie named Alex St. John, who founded a company called WildTangent, put it this way, "I couldn't be better equipped to run a company."

2002, David F D'Alessandro, Michele Owens, Brand Warfare:

This style of naming variables was called Hungarian notation, after Charles Simonyi, a famous Microsoftie who recently went to the International Space Station as a space tourist.

2008, Chuck Sphar, Stephen Randy Davis, C# 2008 for Dummies:


PEAP

Initialism of Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol. A proposed protocol for 802.1X authentication on WLANs.


MSI

(software, Windows) Initialism of Microsoft Installer.


securable

(computing, Microsoft SQL Server) A resource that can be secured.


.NET

programming language
programming language

(computing, Microsoft) A set of Microsoft products and services – primarily the .NET Framework, which permits the development of software for a virtual machine in any CLI-compliant programming language.


Micro$oft

The Microsoft name with a dollar sign, implying greed and capitalism.

The end of the 80x86 (x < 3) will come when Micro$oft quits supporting MS-DOS. Read the Byte article (April '89, I believe) on the 286 vs. 386SX.

1989, John C. Archambeau, “Minix vs. Unix/Xenix (was Re: dosread.c)”, in comp.os.minix (Usenet):

The same applies to DHTML. Why can't anyone agree on a single standard? Probably because Micro$oft wants to retain a desktop monopoly in the face of superior technology avaialable on other platforms. Even on Windows, Netscape and IE use different DOMs.

2000 October 8, David Steuber, “Re: Comparing Perl and Java”, in comp.lang.perl.misc (Usenet):

So, if you're a Microsoft booster, you can feel free to bash Netscape. If you're a Micro$oft hater, then it was clearly at fault!

2007, Frank Zammetti, Practical JavaScript, DOM Scripting, and Ajax Projects:

Micro$oft shot themselves in the foot when they tried to take control of everybody's computer.

2024 August 3, Vernie Montagna, “How To Install Chess Titans In Windows 10”, in allidipass (Google Groups):


red ring

en-verb

red ring (third-person singular simple present red rings, present participle red ringing, simple past and past participle red ringed)

red rings (present singular third-person)
red ringing (participle present)
red ringed (participle past)
red ringed (past)

My 360 red ringed and I had to ship it to Texas to get it fixed.

(video games, of an Xbox 360 games console) To suffer a general hardware fault, the red ring of death.


(computing) Abbreviation of Microsoft Windows 64-bit.


(computing) Abbreviation of Microsoft Windows 16-bit.


(computing) Abbreviation of Microsoft Windows 32-bit.


notification area

en-noun

notification area (plural notification areas)

When this check box is activated, Windows XP will hide notification area icons that you haven't used in a while.

2001, Paul McFedries, The complete idiot's guide to Windows XP:

If you want to add these controls to the notification area, you must do it yourself, using the corresponding Control Panel programs...

2002, David Pogue, Windows XP Home Edition: The Missing Manual:

The notification area is configured by default to hide icons when they are not in use...

2005, Curt Simmons, Windows XP headaches:

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) An area of the taskbar used for icons and alerts.

área de notificação

computing: an area of the taskbar used for icons and alerts


Gatesian

en-adj

Gatesian (comparative more Gatesian, superlative most Gatesian)

more Gatesian (comparative)
most Gatesian (superlative)

...paint a grandiose picture about what Microsoft could do, the Gatesian vision.

1992, James Wallace, Jim Erickson, Hard drive: Bill Gates and the making of the Microsoft empire:

Friends and vague listeners may have heard me urging a "Gatesian" computerized approach...

2008, James A Duke, Mary Jo Bogenschutz-Godwin, Andrea R Ottesen, Duke's Handbook of Medicinal Plants of Latin America:

The projector and the computer bump into each other in Gatesian cyberspace, and we're off.

Of or pertaining to Bill Gates (born 1955), American businessman and co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.


J++

A programming language developed by Microsoft that is a nonstandard variant of Java.


Visual Basic

A programming language developed by Microsoft, broadly descended from BASIC and Pascal, in which all programs have a graphical user interface.


Bing

(Internet) A search engine introduced by Microsoft in 2009.


code-behind

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(computing, programming) A technique in object-oriented programming in which the visual and back-end source code are stored in separate files, allowing designers and programmers to work independently. Code-behind is a technique used in Microsoft programming platforms, including ASP.NET and XAML, where the practice is facilitated by separating the visual and code aspects through the use of partial classes.


minidump

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A small core dump comprising 64 kilobytes of memory (on 32-bit systems) or 128 kilobytes (on 64-bit systems).


Redmondian

Redmondian (comparative more Redmondian, superlative most Redmondian)

more Redmondian (comparative)
most Redmondian (superlative)

From Redmond + -ian, from Redmond, Washington, US, where Microsoft has its headquarters.

In essence, anyone who speaks ill of Linux in any context and under any circumstances is a Redmondian demi-demon or an infidel […]

1999 July, Network World, volume 16, number 29:

With typical Redmondian logic, the company hid Hotmail's address-book importing feature in Outlook Express, where it's called Synchronize Now and doesn't mention Hotmail.

2003, Steve Bass, PC annoyances: how to fix the most annoying things about your personal computer:

.NET innovation is the culmination of the "Redmondian" imagination.

2006, Yogesh Shetty, Samir Jayaswal, Practical .NET for financial markets:

(informal, computing) Of or pertaining to the computing company Microsoft.


cmdlet

For example, the following command will display the cmdlets that can be executed by people who are in the Move Mailboxes role[…]

2010, Ken St. Cyr, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Administration Instant Reference, page 491:

Generally, a cmdlet will run much faster than a script of the same functionality.

2011, John Paul Mueller, Professional Windows 7 Development Guide:

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A specialized .NET class implementing a particular operation in Windows PowerShell.


Microhoo

If it manages to win over Yahoo, the combined entity (already dubbed Microhoo on the Net) would be another behemoth, not only controlling e-mail and instant messenger (over 90 per cent share), but also standing significantly taller in the fight against Google.

2008 February 18, Sunit Arora, Arindam Mukherjee, “Knock Knock... MS Hoo”, in Outlook, volume 48, number 7, page 53:

Facing the Possibility of Microhoo!

Yahoo's systems are based heavily on Open Source. If Microsoft keeps them that way, it will lose credibility with customers.

2008, Lawrence D'Oliveiro, “Microhoo prognostications”, in nz.comp (Usenet):

MS is desperate to find something new that others might play catchup to, with little success. Their approach has almost always been claim jumping ("A market without competition, isn't."). That is hardly working for them anymore (witness Zune, Microhoo).

2008, Matt, “[News] Ogg is Coming to Hundreds of Millions of PCs!!”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):

You made a really, really bad move getting in bed with microhoo, and it will cost you in the end.

2011, unknown author, “Went back to 3.5”, in mozilla.feedback.firefox (Usenet):

(computing, humorous) The company that would be formed by the acquisition of Yahoo! by Microsoft (the potential result of a merger proposed in the mid-2000s).


homegroup

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A collection of home computers on a network, similar to a workgroup.


MSIE

Microsoft Internet Explorer
w:en:Microsoft Internet Explorer

(Internet) Initialism of Microsoft Internet Explorer, a web browser


WF

Windows Workflow Foundation
w:Windows Workflow Foundation

(computing) Initialism of Windows Workflow Foundation.


MFC

Microsoft Foundation Classes
w:Microsoft Foundation Classes

(programming) Initialism of Microsoft Foundation Classes.


Mickeysoft

Blend of Mickey Mouse (suggesting inferior quality) and Microsoft.


Windoze

Blend of Windows + doze, suggesting slow performance. First use appears c. 1986. See cite below.

Every point and counterpoint is peppered with derisive terms such as "Windoze," "File Mangler," and "PeeCees."

1986, PC Communications Corporation, PC Magazine, The Independent Guide to IBM-standard Personal Computing · Volume 15, page 85:

I've had it with the Windoze Gestapo. They want to make everyone use Windoze. They have propogandize^([sic]) the public through computer publications and large newspapers.

1997 February 19, ROWE BOBBY S, “Defend yourself against the Windoze Gestapo”, in alt.destroy.microsoft (Usenet):

My big fear was that they'd use some kind of weirdo operating system, but it turned out just to be Windoze. And not Windoze Millennium, NT, or '98, or even '95, but Windoze 3.1

2006, Anthony McGowan, Hellbent, page 118:

(computing, slang, derogatory) Microsoft Windows.


Windross

Blend of Windows + dross, suggesting an inferior product.

Like Danny, I made the difficult decision to take a close look at Windross at Xmas96. The OS is a monster it's true; but IMHO it also brings alternative ways of achieving your objectives which are, as I have tried to show, not available in the Acorn environment. Recent threads on Acorn v Windross in schools don't seem to focus on this?

1998 June 10, Martin Birchall, “Sad”, in comp.sys.acorn.misc (Usenet):

The Windross user experience is awful. I migrated to the Mac, and while it's amazing to have inDesign, XPress, Photoshop, Acrobat, etc. right there, Mac OS 8/9's GUI was nothing on RISC OS and it's difficult to describe in any meaningful way Mac OS X's GUI is better than Windows - especially as the responsiveness remains poor.

2003 January 4, David, “Comments about Windross OS”, in comp.sys.acorn.misc (Usenet):

I copy the file to a plain Jane Lexar thumb drive, then move the drive to Windoze. Windross does it's^([sic]) usual popup game: "Yay! Look at me! I found something! Yay! It's a USB device! Yay! I'm setting it up now! Yay! Look at me!!"

2012 November 17, Sinister Midget, “Windwoes Dimwittery”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):


Microshaft

Blend of Microsoft + shaft (in slang sense; see shafted).

(computing, slang, derogatory) The computer company Microsoft.


Winblows

Blend of Windows + blows (in the slang sense where something that "blows" is worthless or inferior). First use appears c. 1997 in the periodical Working Woman.

Winblows regrets that it is "Not Justice Department Approved."

1998, Newsweek, Incorporated, Newsweek, Volume 131, page 12:

Ring me when Winblows becomes free, or when there are free dev tools for it!

1999, John Purcell (editor), Linux, The Complete Reference; The Advanced Reference · Book 2, page 319:

While many users run versions of Linux or Unix on their PCs, most PC users run some flavor of Windows (often referred to by Mac and Unix users as WinDoze or WinBlows).

2003, David Chappelle, Protect Yourself Online, How to Cover Your Assets Every Time You Log On, page 27:

(computing, slang, derogatory) The Microsoft Windows operating system.


Winmodem

Blend of Windows + modem; from a trademark of U.S. Robotics.

Coordinate term: Linmodem

(computing) A softmodem designed to work with the Microsoft Windows operating system.


VFAT

file allocation table
file allocation table#English

backwards compatibility
backwards compatibility

(computing) Initialism of virtual file allocation table: the method used by Windows 9x and Windows NT to allow the use of long filenames on FAT16 and FAT32 file systems while still providing 8.3 aliases of these filenames for backwards compatibility with systems not supporting long filenames.


exFAT

(computing) Initialism of extended file allocation table, a 64-bit derivative of the FAT family of file systems.


file allocation table
file allocation table

(computing) A version of the FAT series of file systems which uses a 64-bit file allocation table.

(rare) A hypothetical FAT filesystem using a 64-bit file allocation table, but without the additional data structures found in exFAT.


FAT

en-noun

FAT (countable and uncountable, plural FATs)

File Allocation Table
w:File Allocation Table

(computing) Acronym of File Allocation Table or file allocation table.

Any of a series of file systems that use one or more FATs.

(specifically, Microsoft Windows) FAT12 or FAT16, without drawing a distinction between the two.


MIC

(computing, Microsoft) Initialism of Microsoft Innovation Center.


TAPI

(computing, Microsoft Windows) Initialism of Telephony Application Programming Interface.


WMA

(computing) Initialism of Wireless Messaging API.


WMA

(computing) Initialism of Windows Media Audio (file).


embrace, extend and extinguish

Formerly used internally by Microsoft. First described outside Microsoft in a 1996 New York Times article entitled "Microsoft Trying to Dominate the Internet".

A strategy of marketing that involves extending widely used standards of product categories with proprietary capabilities, and then using the differences to disadvantage its competitors.


Hotmailer

(Internet, informal, historical) Someone who has a Hotmail email account.


VSS

(computer networking) virtual switching system


VSS

(computing) Microsoft Volume Snapshot Service


WPF

(graphical user interface) Initialism of Windows Presentation Foundation (a graphical subsystem for rendering user interfaces in Windows-based applications.)


WMV

Windows Media Video
w:Windows Media Video

(computing, video) Initialism of Windows Media Video.


WDM

Windows Driver Model
w:Windows Driver Model

(computing) Initialism of Windows Driver Model.


Microspeak

Actually, preview, in Microspeak, is what blunter software companies call "beta" — meaning incomplete, buggy, and unsupported.

2002, James Gleick, What just happened: a chronicle from the information frontier:

Welcome to the world of Microspeak — the unofficial language of Microsoft.

2003, Steven Lattimore McShane, Mary Ann Young Von Glinow, Organizational behavior:

The browser buttons, shown in Figure 7-1, are simply links that you can place on the same toolbar that holds your most frequently used bookmarks (known as "favorites" in Microspeak).

2004, Sarah Milstein, Rael Dornfest, Google: the missing manual, page 174:

(informal) The computer and business jargon associated with Microsoft.


WCF

(computing) Initialism of Windows Communication Foundation (a runtime and a set of APIs in the .NET Framework used to build connected, service-oriented applications)


MOSS

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
w:Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

(software) Acronym of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.


Windows key

First appeared on a Microsoft keyboard in 1994.

(computing) A key on a computer keyboard bearing the Microsoft Windows logo, used to open the Start menu and as a modifier key for various other functions.

開始鍵 /开始键 (kāishǐjiàn, literally “start key”)


Start menu

(computing) A menu in some operating systems that is launched by pressing an on-screen button and provides a central launching point for applications and tasks.


MSDN

(Microsoft, software) Initialism of Microsoft Developer Network.


Xboxer

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Xboxers can stop whining about being left out of the most amoral and hyper-violent game of all time.

2003 November, Popular Science, volume 263, number 5, page 26:

(informal) An owner of a Xbox video game console.


C`num`

Inspired by the sharp symbol in musical notation. Also chosen because this symbol resembles four connected + symbols; see etymology for C++.

VBers may find the syntax of C# a bit unpalatable.

2008, Andrew Troelsen, Visual Basic .NET and the .NET Platform: An Advanced Guide, page XVIII:

(programming) An object-oriented programming language, resembling Java in some respects, developed by Microsoft Corporation as part of their .NET Framework initiative.


keypath

The Microsoft Excel workbook Keypath.xls has a list of all the keypath files and registry values associated with Office XP features and components.

2001, Microsoft Office XP Resource Kit, page 196:

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A path to a file or other component that is critical to the installation of a given program.


MCC

(video games, informal) Abbreviation of MC Championship.


Common Language Infrastructure

(computing) The open specification that describes the executable code and runtime environment that form the core of the Microsoft .NET Framework.


MSIL

Intermediate Language
intermediate language#English

(programming) Abbreviation of Microsoft Intermediate Language.


managed code

Common Language Runtime
Common Language Runtime

(computing) Source code that will execute only under Microsoft's Common Language Runtime.


GDI+

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A newer and improved version of GDI written in C++.


jump list

(computing theory) A kind of sorted linked list with additional pointers to connect data items that are various distances apart.

(graphical user interface, Microsoft Windows) A pop-up list of tasks or documents associated with an application in the taskbar.


Start button

(computing, graphical user interface) a labeled button in some versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system that opens the Start menu.


subkey

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A key located beneath another key in the registry.


Microsoft tax

(computing, informal, derogatory) The licence fee for the Microsoft Windows operating system software that is pre-installed on many home computer systems.


UNC

\\BobsComputer\Shared\ColourLaser200 is the UNC path to Bob's printer.

Uniform Naming Convention
w:Uniform Naming Convention

(computing, Microsoft Windows) Initialism of Uniform Naming Convention, a syntax to describe the location of a network resource.


blue screen

A compound of blue + screen, from the historical film-making technique of using blue backgrounds.

blue screen of death
blue screen of death#English

(computing) Ellipsis of blue screen of death.


NTFS

operating system
operating system#English

(software, Windows) Initialism of New Technology File System (a proprietary file system developed for the Windows NT family of Microsoft Windows operating systems, starting with Windows NT 3.1 and continuing to the present day).


reparse point

(computing, Microsoft Windows) An extension to an NTFS object that determines how it will be treated by the operating system.


junction point

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.


portable executable

portable executable (plural portable executables)

(software) A file format used for executable programs, DLLs, fonts, etc. in Microsoft Windows and some other operating systems.


Skype

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From Sky peer-to-peer, which was then abbreviated to Skyper. However, some of the domain names associated with Skyper were already taken. Dropping the final r left the current title Skype, for which domain names were available.

(trademark) A telecommunications application by Skype Technologies.

(trademark) The company Skype Technologies that develops telecommunications software.


Skype

en-verb

Skype (third-person singular simple present Skypes, present participle Skyping or Skypeing, simple past and past participle Skyped)

Skypes (present singular third-person)
Skyping (participle present)
Skypeing (participle present)
Skyped (participle past)
Skyped (past)

Online banking, auto bill paying, emailing, texting, social networking, and Skypeing with friends and loved ones has never been easier and makes keeping in touch a breeze.

2012, Brent Peterson, April Maher, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to RVing, 3rd edition, Alpha Books, →ISBN:

He planned on Skypeing with his mother regularly.

2013, Mary Higgins Clark, Daddy’s Gone A Hunting, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 49:

When they weren’t busy flying back and forth between Toronto and New York, they were either calling, texting, or Skypeing each other.

2014, Suri Rosen, Playing with Matches, ECW Press, →ISBN:


NSIS

Network Store Interface Service
w:Network Store Interface Service

(computing) Initialism of Network Store Interface Service (a Microsoft Windows service)


AVI

Audio Video Interleave
w:Audio Video Interleave

(video file format) Initialism of Audio Video Interleave.


Windows

From windows, in reference to the user-interface display elements.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(operating systems, trademark) Microsoft Windows, an operating system with a WIMP graphical user interface that dominates the personal computer market.

operating systems; trademark; operating systems; trademark


snapin

snap + in, suggesting a component that clicks into place.

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A software plug-in.


shellbag

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A set of registry keys that store details about a viewed folder, such as its size, position, and icon.


WASAPI

(computing, Microsoft Windows) Initialism of Windows Audio Session API.


Winkey

(computing) Abbreviation of Windows key.


HKLM

(computing, Microsoft Windows) Abbreviation of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE: part of the registry containing settings specific to the local computer.


Sylfaen

From Welsh sylfaen (“foundation”). A trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

A certain serif typeface that supports Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian and Georgian.


WinRT

(computing) Abbreviation of Windows Runtime.


Minecrafty

en-adj

Minecrafty (comparative more Minecrafty or Minecraftier, superlative most Minecrafty or Minecraftiest)

more Minecrafty (comparative)
Minecraftier (comparative)
most Minecrafty (superlative)
Minecraftiest (superlative)

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Stranded 2 - a fun little game, now available for free. A bit minecrafty.

2011 May 16, John Dow, “Re: Premiership, West Ham, Balls, European”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet):

If you've been living in a massively multiplayer cave for the last few months, it's the pretty Minecrafty prologue to the ambitious Everquest Next, which will let you build and decorate and even alter the terrain of the world/s as you see fit.

2013 December 7, Tom Sykes, “Everquest Next Landmark trailer asks the pertinent question 'What is Everquest Next Landmark?'”, in PC Gamer:

If you've been busy mining, farming, and doing all the other Minecrafty things that get you established, […]

2014, Stephen O'Brien, The Ultimate Player's Guide to Minecraft, Que Publishing, →ISBN, page 137:

(video games, informal) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Minecraft.


Minecrafter

If the game is on easy mode, the zombies will just pound on the doors and create a really nice scare and, as any Minecrafter knows, they won’t even spawn on peaceful mode.

2012 February 27, Meg Iserloth, “Mojang: Where are They Now?”, in University Chronicle, volume 88, number 33, St. Cloud, Minn.: St. Cloud State University, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 3:

Furthermore, you can sync with other Minecrafters on a local area network in order to invite and play with friends in your own little world.

2013, Darren Murph, “The Best Not-exactly-productive Apps”, in iPhone Secrets: Do What You Never Thought Possible with Your iPhone, Indianapolis, Ind.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, part III (Diving into Software), page 185:

He and others in the community had begun discussing the opportunity for a gathering of Minecrafters, similar to anime and sci-fi conventions.

2013 November 4, David Langlois, “Minecon 2013 – Creepin’ around the Corner”, in The Bay Window, volume 14, number 3, Muskegon, Mich.: Muskegon Community College, →OCLC, page 5, column 2:

(video games) A person who plays the game Minecraft.


SSDT

"BIDS functionality can be augmented with BIDS Helper, a Visual Studio add-in with features that extended and enhance business intelligence development functionality in SQL Server 2005, 2008, and 2008 R2 BI Development Studio (BIDS) and SQL Server 2012 SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). BIDS Helper is hosted on Microsoft's open source project hosting website CodePlex."

(databases, Microsoft) Abbreviation of SQL Server Data Tools.


PWI

Public Windows Interface
w:Public Windows Interface

(computing) Initialism of Public Windows Interface.


DMF

en-noun

DMF (countable and uncountable, plural DMFs)

distribution media format
distribution media format#English

(software, Windows) Initialism of distribution media format.


MSS

Microsoft Search Server (enterprise search)


UAC

User Account Control
w:en:User Account Control

(computing, Microsoft Windows) Initialism of User Account Control: a technology that limits application software to standard user privileges until an administrator authorizes further privileges.


UWP

(computing) Initialism of Universal Windows Platform (a framework for applications that run on multiple Windows OS devices)


WinJS

Equivalent to Win (shortening of Windows) + JS (shortening of JavaScript).

compound

shortening of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Windows</i>

shortening of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">JavaScript</i>

(computing) Initialism of Windows Library for JavaScript (an open source JavaScript library developed by Microsoft)


WMI

(computing) Initialism of Windows Management Instrumentation (in the Microsoft Windows operating systems, a set of extensions to the Windows Driver Model)


MSRPC

(computing) Initialism of Microsoft RPC.


WRP

(computing) Initialism of Windows Resource Protection (for system files and the registry)

(computing) Initialism of Winsock Redirect Protocol.

(computing) Initialism of Wireless Routing Protocol (protocol for mobile ad hoc networks)

(computing) Initialism of Workflow Resource Planning (a class of the ERP system)


snap-in

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A plug-in.


MCSD

(Microsoft, software) Initialism of Microsoft Certified Solution Developer.


Microsoft minute

en-noun

Microsoft minute (plural Microsoft minutes)

A derogatory reference to the slow performance of Microsoft software.

(humorous, rare) A unit of time longer than one minute.


WoW

(computing, software) Initialism of Windows on Windows.


HKCU

(computing, Microsoft Windows) HKEY_CURRENT_USER, part of the registry containing settings specific to the logged-on user.


SSPI

(API, Microsoft, security) Initialism of Security Support Provider Interface (a Microsoft Windows API used for security-related operations such as authentication.)


taskpad

You can also control the size of the list, whether the list is displayed horizontally or vertically in the results pane, and more. Here are the steps to follow to create a custom taskpad view: […]

2012, Brian Knittel, Paul McFedries, Windows 8 In Depth:

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A graphical user interface that gathers several tasks into a single display, giving each one an icon.


NTLDR

(computing) The boot loader for Windows NT.


Initialism of Windows 95 (operating system).


Initialism of Windows 98 (operating system).


WU

(computing) Initialism of Windows Update.


appbar

From app + bar; introduced in Windows 95.

Create an appbar to display the system palette

1996, Scott Stanfield, Ralph Arvesen, Visual C++ 4 How-to, page 513:

Home Page of the FinanceHub Windows 8 store application displaying the stocks watchlist and an appbar with Add Stock flyout

2013, Ashish Ghoda, Windows 8 MVVM Patterns Revealed, page XX:

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A toolbar, anchored to an edge of the user's desktop, providing quick access to programs or features.


coinstaller

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A DLL that aids in the installation of a hardware device, chiefly by updating files.


Suggesting one of the truncated 8.3-style file and directory names sometimes encountered in Microsoft Windows as a result of its MS-DOS roots, e.g. PROGRA~1 for Program Files.

(computing, slang, humorous, derogatory) The computing company Microsoft.


functoid

(computing, Microsoft BizTalk Server) A tool that transforms data from one form to another as it is routed from a source to a destination.


friendly name

(computing, Microsoft Windows) The everyday name of a hardware device, displayed to the user instead of the internal or technical designation.


gamertag

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A pseudonym by which an individual playing an online game with others is identified


PPT

(PowerPoint): Abbreviation of PowerPoint, originally used as its document filename extension.

Does anyone know how Powerpoint deals with .PCS files?
POPULAR.PCS contains the default clipart supplied when you install PPT I presume.

1997 September 30, Damian Hurley, “Has anyone played around with Clipart???”, in comp.os.ms-windows.misc (Usenet), message-ID <01bccdb6$5c5ef440$543913ac@2IT766.charnwood.gb.astra.com>:

I purchased PowerPoint Version 2002 for XP separately, but can't install it. […] Can anyone provide info on: what a qualifying product is?, what the error is?, and what I need to do to install PPT?

2002 October 25, m montanet, “Help! Can't install PPT 2002”, in microsoft.public.powerpoint (Usenet), message-ID <2b5201c27c85$3a049a70$3bef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA10>:

In my case I don't have words, just photos/graphics, and embedded short video clips, using the cheezy PPT effects :-)

2008 April 13, Sue Morton, “Re: Vegas for PPT-like videos (was DAW and PowerPoint)”, in cakewalk.audio (Usenet), message-ID <iFlMj.5688$GE1.2672@nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com>:

PowerPoint (the slide presentation software developed by Microsoft)


Edge

English topographic surname, derived from the noun edge. Compare Eck.


anti-Microsofter

While I respect your reasons for disliking Microsoft, you are making the anti Microsoft camp look bad. When I see this, the image I get of anti-Microsofters is that they are a juvenile bunch who can't attack the opposing argument, so they attack the person instead with schoolyard insults questioning the sexual preference, and personal worth of anyone who dares defend Microsoft.

1997 November 8, John Black, “Re: CONTEST: Who has the best insult for this idiot... (was Re: Gates Of Hell”, in comp.os.linux.development.apps (Usenet):

Washington has a new favorite sport—Microsoft bashing—and the Justice Department isn't the only group in town that's playing. […] A recent meeting at the offices of Powell Tate, a public relations firm headed by former White House press secretary Jody Powell, drew a couple of dozen anti-Microsofters, participants say.

1998 January 12, Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, “D.C.'s Anti-Gates Lobby”, in Fortune, volume 137, number 1, →ISSN, page 135:

What a minute. Several anti-Microsofters just got through posting comments about how this Mono thing "cut off Bill's balls" or something similar and was turning "extend and embrace" around to backfire on Microsoft.

2001 July 12, Java Fan -2 + -2, “Re: Mono Project = Monkey Project - Open Source .Net”, in comp.lang.java.advocacy (Usenet):

An opposer of Microsoft or its products.


Microsofter

A Microsofter revealed the real reason for the party to a reporter: “We were trying to figure out how to get our name out there even if we weren’t at the Faire[…]”

Her most notable meeting, she recalls with still-fresh amazement, took place recently with a roomful of Microsofters. The House Gates Built, she recalls, was looking for “a sense of community” for the Microsoft Network.

1995 November 13, Michael Krantz, “The Great Manhattan Geek Rush of 1995”, in New York, pages 41–42:

Later in the day, I’m sitting in a large marquee with 1,000 wildly overexcited Microsoft interns for the monthly company meeting. Brilliant young aspiring Microsofters queue in two lines to fire a series of fantastically unpredictable questions at Nadella.

2017 September 30, Ben Hoyle, “Satya Nadella: the man who rebooted Microsoft”, in The Times:


Win

(computing) Windows, an operating system family developed by Microsoft.


red forest

* (ecology): Due to the colouration found in forest that has been killed.

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A forest (group of domains) having high security and limited access, used for administrative purposes.


Minecraft

Compound of mine + craft; coined by Paul Eres in May 2009, a member of the TIGSource Forums.

Chlorine blue, bordered in forest green and looking out onto a Grecian gazebo, the pool was composed of hundreds of ceramic kitchen tiles, like a Minecraft version of C.Z. Guest’s once-upon-a-time world.

2016 September 13, Vanessa Friedman, “New York Fashion Week Comes to Life With Thom Browne and Proenza Schouler”, in The New York Times:

If you know a tween, chances are you have bought them something sparkly in the past couple of years – and not only if they are a girl. From Next’s boys’ sequinned T-shirt that flips between Minecraft designs to Paperchase’s rainbow-encrusted notebook[…], these addictively tactile surfaces are everywhere.

2019 February 25, Dale Berning Sawa, “Why the world has gone wild for reversible sequins”, in The Guardian:

London’s mayoralty insists that its new homes must look like old homes – just new, and more of them. So the city has ended up with endless variations of a Georgian terrace that looks like it’s been rendered in Minecraft.

2022 August 24, India Block, “Like a beige, banal biscuit tin: why London’s new buildings all look the same”, in The Guardian:

(video games) A sandbox video game, released in 2011, in which players explore a three-dimensional world made of blocks and can craft items and build structures.


MSNBC

An initialism from the names of its founders, Microsoft and the National Broadcasting Company, equivalent to MS + NBC.

“If you’re wondering how Jon Stewart’s bullshit bothsidesist return went over…” former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann posted to X, formerly Twitter. “The antisemite racist conspiracy nuts LOVED it.”

2024 February 13, Zachary Leeman, “Jon Stewart Angers Liberal Viewers By Criticizing Biden: ‘Racist Conspiracy Theory Nuts LOVED It!’”, in Mediaite:

(television) An American news-based television channel and website.


Frightful Five

The companies I call the Frightful Five — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Alphabet, Google’s parent company — have experienced astounding growth over the last few years, making them the world’s five most valuable public companies.

2017 October 11, Frahad Manjoo, “The Frightful Five Want to Rule Entertainment. They Are Hitting Limits.”, in The New York Times:

Both factors freeze out other entrants, limit the number of insiders to one or two, and reduce many outsiders to irrelevance, if they survive at all. Lest anyone doubt the importance of rapid scaling and network effects, the Frightful Five benefit(ed) from these factors.

2017 September/October, Shane Greenstein, “Insider Privileges”, in IEEE Micro, volume 37, number 5:

The major asset of technology's "Frightful Five" - Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple - lies in their ability to synergize user databases with thrid party commerce (MIT Sloan 2017; Manjoo 2017).

2018, Karan P. Jani, Anmol Soni, “Promise and Perils of Bid Data Science for Intelligence Community”, in Technology and the Intelligence Community, →ISBN, page 184:

Imagine that an "evil, tech-phobic monarch" forced everyone to stop using products and services from the major technology companies: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Alphabet (the parent company of Google), a.k.a. the "Frightful Five."

2018, Brett Frischmann, Evan Selinger, Re-Engineering Humanity, →ISBN, page 2:

Overall, the Frightful Five are healthier than ever.

2019, Ronald M. Baecker, Computers and Society: Modern Perspectives, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 367:

(informal) The five largest technology companies in the world: Amazon, Apple, Alphabet (owner of Google), Facebook (or its parent company Meta) and Microsoft.


tasktray

(graphical user interface) The notification area or tray, part of the taskbar.


EWS

(Microsoft, software) Initialism of Exchange Web Services. (an API for the Microsoft Exchange e-mail server)


MDAC

Microsoft Data Access Components
w:Microsoft Data Access Components

(computing) Initialism of Microsoft Data Access Components.


WDI

(Microsoft) Initialism of Windows Diagnostic Infrastructure.


XBLA

(video games) Initialism of Xbox Live Arcade.


Windvocate

(Internet slang, derogatory) A user who advocates the Microsoft Windows operating system.


Wintroll

(Internet slang, derogatory) A trollish user who advocates the Microsoft Windows operating system.


GAFAM

(computing) Acronym of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, a group of major computing companies.


RROD

Alternative form: RRoD

For quotations using this term, see Citations:RRoD.

red ring of death
red ring of death#English

(video games) Initialism of red ring of death.


ADUC

(computing) Acronym of Active Directory Users & Computers.


EEE

embrace, extend and extinguish
embrace, extend and extinguish#English

(marketing) Initialism of embrace, extend and extinguish.


Wingding

(computing, trademark) A glyph from a Wingdings font.


spleef

en-verb

spleef (third-person singular simple present spleefs, present participle spleefing, simple past and past participle spleefed)

spleefs (present singular third-person)
spleefing (participle present)
spleefed (participle past)
spleefed (past)

From Spleef, the name of a minigame on Minecraft, a blend of splat + grief.

These servers host many types of gameplay, from minigames, to spleefing (my favorite), to PvP (I'm terrible at Player-vs-Player battles), to fractions, to Survival, to Creative . . . It's amazing what people have created with Minecraft, and these many, many servers are evidence of the creative potential Minecraft offers those with imaginative minds.

2015, Mark Cheverton, The Jungle Temple Oracle: The Mystery of Herobrine, page IX:

It also includes everything you need to Spleef right, like observation posts and an entrance way (most Spleef games are teleported to from servers, so they need somewhere to enter), and it would work great on just about any server.

Minecraft Event, Jan. 24 to April 25, Jan. 24 10 a.m. Kida^([sic – meaning Kids]) ages 7 to 14 are invited to join in the “grinding, building, spleefing and raising of diamond swords” at this monthly Minecraft Event with instructor Rand Whipple and the Box of Light Studio staff.

2015 January 15, “The List: A Weekly Guide to Area Events & Attractions”, in The Citizens’ Voice, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., page J12, column 4:

As parents are confused at the dinner table when their offspring talk about ‘Endermen’ and ‘spleefing’[…]

2017 August, “Reviews”, in Starburst, page 101, column 2:

(video games) To play the Minecraft game of "Spleef", in which players try to knock blocks out from beneath other players in order to be the last player standing.


MSU

(software, Windows) Initialism of Microsoft Update.


WSL

Windows Subsystem for Linux
w:Windows Subsystem for Linux

(computing) Initialism of Windows Subsystem for Linux.


Xbot

(slang, derogatory, video games) A slavish supporter of the Xbox range of video game consoles; an Xbox fanboy


obby

en-noun

obby (countable and uncountable, plural obbies)

This obby is going to be a dungeon-style theme. Players will have to run down long corridors, avoid traps, make death-defying leaps, and run along cobblestone mazes.

2019, Heath Haskins, The Advanced Roblox Coding Book: An Unofficial Guide, page 167:

Obstacle courses are very popular on Roblox. These games are usually called "obby" by Roblox players. In an average obby, you might need to jump across tiny platforms. Or slide down a twisting slope. Or both at once! An obby usually starts out easy and gets tougher as it goes.

2020, Josh Gregory, Games and Genres in Roblox, page 9:

Obstacle games can have potential for massive visits if it is a great obby.

The saga continues for Liz as she faces one obby after another.

2021, Sara Coleman, 101 Unofficial Roblox Story Starters, page 20:

(countable, Roblox) Clipping of obstacle course.

With a newly "looted" obby shield and a fresh Verac Plateskirt in inventory I decided to teleport to closest bank and have a break from the game.

2015, Sean Mintz, Computer Games: The Complete Guide to Computer Games Learning:

I reckon Runescape^([sic]) is the game that introduced my young, ignorant, and stubborn self to modern RPGs. In a way, I owe at least part of how my career has shaped up to trimmed rune and obby capes.

2021 January 4, Cian Maher, “Runescape^([sic]) Is 20 Years Old Today - Here's How I Started A Pyramid Scheme When I Was Nine”, in TheGamer, archived from the original on 2022-06-19:

Oh yeah? I'll say, lying down and closing my eyes beside them while they talk to me about mooshrooms and obby swords. Tell me more.

2021 May 6, Kate Baer, “12 Moms on Their Secret Strengths”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2022-05-06:

(uncountable, RuneScape, Minecraft) Clipping of obsidian.


FAAMG

FAAMG (countable and uncountable, plural FAAMGs)

(technology) One or more of the technology companies Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google.


MCPE

(video games) Initialism of Minecraft Pocket Edition.


property bag

(programming, in various Microsoft technologies) A collection of properties and their values, similar to an associative array or hash table.


VBer

VBers may find the syntax of C# a bit unpalatable.

2008, Andrew Troelsen, Visual Basic .NET and the .NET Platform: An Advanced Guide, page XVIII:

(programming, informal) A programmer who uses the Visual Basic language.


WinVNC

(computing) A VNC server that allows the user to view the Windows desktop from any VNC viewer.


M$FT

From MSFT, Microsoft's Nasdaq symbol, with a dollar sign added to denote greed or wealth.

Item: Intel is thinking (planning) on moving from x86 architecture (CISC) to new RISC architecture. M$FT legacy apps would be broken (Win32 APIs).

1997 April 13, Steve Cordova, “I hope no one from M$FT is reading this”, in comp.sys.mac.advocacy (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-17:

As it stands M$FT has a combination of deep pockets and compelling apps for the "ordinary" consumer than Linux has. It's not enough to say, "Linux can also read your MSFT word documents." Just look at how far that got the Mac.

2002 March 11, Joe Chung, “Does anyone in the Bay Area use Linux?”, in ba.general (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-17:

2002 July 26, Peter Leftwich, “Peter heads back to M$FT WinBloze”, in lucky.freebsd.questions (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-17:

BusinessWeek Online had a good article about H1 Visas and software engineers. But M$FT only takes good people. So stay unemployed U lozers.

2007 October 13, raylopez99, “M$FT hiring--but they need competent people. COMPETENT”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-17:

Why M$FT offers a "repair" option that requires even more high level repair is beyond me.

2008 July 26, SnoopDoggy, “M$FT to Copy Apple "Experience"”, in alt.music.rush (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-17:


Minecraftian

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(video games, rare) A person who plays the game Minecraft; a Minecrafter.


speedbridge

en-verb

speedbridge (third-person singular simple present speedbridges, present participle speedbridging, simple past and past participle speedbridged)

speedbridges (present singular third-person)
speedbridging (participle present)
speedbridged (participle past)
speedbridged (past)

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He's good at speed bridging and he's also organized a 1v1 tournament on the game mode before.

2021 July 19, Bhagyasri Chaudhury, “Who is Purpled? James Charles slammed for posting pic of Minecraft YouTuber, 17”, in MEAWW:

Ten teams of four competitors participate in eight different minigames that test a variety of skills within Minecraft. These skills can range from anything between player-versus-player combat, speedbridging, parkour, building, and more.

2021 October 31, Hannah (Tyler) Dahlberg, “Minecraft Championship (MCC) All-Stars: First half of the competing teams revealed”, in Sportskeeda:

This technique is useful in shooting games, PvP games, Minecraft, and clicking games. It provides fast clicking, with the virtue that you can kill more enemies, do speed bridging, and more.

2022 June 6, RJ Frometa, “Drag Click Test: Improve Your Clicks Per Second Rate With Drag Clicking Technique”, in Vents Magazine:

Knowing how to speed bridge without falling to your death can come in handy in some of these servers.

2022 September 23, Petra Dolovski, “How to Speed Bridge in Minecraft”, in Diamond Lobby:

(video games, Minecraft) To build a bridge under oneself using one of several techniques which minimize the amount of crouching, resulting in a significantly faster pace of construction.


GitHubber

At 29 years old, I was the oldest of the three GitHubbers and had accumulated a proportionally larger amount of debt and monthly expenditure.

2009, Tom Preston-Werner, “How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft (continued)”, in Chad Fowler, The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development, Raleigh, N.C.: The Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN, part I (Choosing Your Market), chapter 6 (Don’t Listen to Your Parents), page 26:

GitHubbers are still committed to the principles of bootstrapping, especially for younger startups, and [Tom] Preston-Werner doesn’t think their messaging on that score will change any time soon.

2012 July 9, J. O’Dell, “Why GitHub abandoned the bootstrapper’s ship for a $100M Series A”, in VentureBeat, archived from the original on 2022-11-10:

According to GitHubber Brian Doll, when GitHub first started, they just had a row of tables and everyone worked at the tables. […] An Open Organization may require a whole lot of arguing. GitHub is not a quiet place to work. […] GitHubbers see arguing as the process to making good decisions.

2014, Philip A. Foster, “GitHub: ‘Creating Awesome’—A Case Study”, in The Open Organization: A New Era of Leadership and Organizational Development, Farnham, Surrey: Gower Publishing Limited, →ISBN, part I (Foundations of an Open Organization), pages 32, 36, and 37:

I thought that’s how I become a good GitHubber -- that’s the idea of success.

2014 September, Shanley Kane, quoting Julie Ann Horvath, “Interview with Julie Ann Horvath”, in Model View Culture: New Writing on Technology, Diversity and Culture (Quarterly No. 3), San Francisco, Calif.: Feminist Technology Collective, Inc., →ISBN, page 12:

For example, consider GitHub’s San Francisco headquarters. […] Past the waiting room is a massive open area, complete with a full bar, a cafeteria, foosball tables, ping-pong tables, pool tables, and a DJ station. This is where GitHubbers have lunch, hold meetups, and relax.

2016, Yevgeniy Brikman, “Startup Culture”, in Hello, Startup: A Programmer’s Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, part III (Teams), pages 411–412:

An employee of GitHub, Inc., a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code.


MAMAA

"Bye-bye FAANG, hello MAMAA," the "Mad Money" host said on Thursday's show. "What really matters here, as I always say about MAMAA, is that the secret of their valuation is that they're all in the habit of reinvention. That's why I love them so much."

2021 October 29, Kevin Stankiewicz, quoting Jim Cramer, “'Bye-bye FAANG, hello MAMAA' — Cramer reveals a new acronym after Facebook's name change”, in CNBC, archived from the original on 2022-11-03:

While two big components of the MAMAA acronym, Apple and Amazon, both saw declines in their stock price on Thursday and Friday, Cramer said investors should focus on the bigger picture.

[2021 October 29, Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, “Not FAANG but MAMAA: Jim Cramer reveals new acronym for the 5 largest tech giants”, in Fortune, New York, N.Y.: Fortune Media Group Holdings, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-23:

Nevertheless, a number of tech stocks have returned handsomely this year and outperformed MAMAA's returns. These stocks have benefited from the stay-at-home trend that has driven demand for web-based services like e-commerce, contactless payment and delivery.

2021 December 22, Aniruddha Ganguly, “5 Tech Stocks That Have Crushed MAMAA in 2021”, in Nasdaq, Zacks Investment Research, archived from the original on 2023-03-06:

With MANAMANA we capture an enormous swath of the American technology industry. With the addition of Adobe and Nvidia, this bellwether gains exposure to two segments of the technology that FANG, FAANG, FANAMA and MAMAA miss: creation and publication, and the power behind graphics processing units.

[2021 November 5, Bill Mann, “FAANG is Dead. Long Live MANAMANA”, in The Motley Fool, archived from the original on 2022-08-07:

Whether it's FANG, FAANG, MAMAA, MANAMANA or something else, the idea is to serve as a proxy to track something larger.

[2021 November 17, Kevin Theissen, “What is MAMAA?”, in The Mountain Times, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-28:

Instead in 2019, 7 out of the top 8 companies are digital platforms: all the USA GAFAM/MAMAA plus the two Chinese digital platforms.

2022 March 10, Antonio Manganelli, Antonio Nicita, Regulating Digital Markets: The European Approach, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 10:

These competitive advantages can make the FAANG (or MAMAA) stocks great potential investments. Still, investors may want to examine each stock’s valuation relative to its own historical value and that of comparable competitors before buying.

2022 July 21, Adam Levy, “Investing in FAANG or MAMAA Stocks”, in The Motley Fool, archived from the original on 2023-02-16:

Why won't MAMAA companies *disclose* how many employees they have in the Greater Philadelphia region?

2023 February 27, Sarah Huffman, “How many Big Tech employees live in Philly?”, in Technical.ly, archived from the original on 2023-02-27:

The five MAMAA stocks have a combined market cap of more than $6.6 trillion.

2023 March 1, Wayne Duggan, “What Happened To FAANG Stocks? They Became MAMAA Stocks”, in Benjamin Curry, editor, Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-01:

(technology) Acronym of Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet.


Softie

Many Softies believed and continue to believe that Microsoft employees are smarter than everyone else and that the company is a magnet for the brightest, most ambitious tech and marketing experts[…]

2008, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era, John Wiley & Sons, page 18:


M$

From MS (initialism of Microsoft), with a dollar sign added to imply greed and capitalism.


in Minecraft

From in + Minecraft (“a sandbox video game in which players explore a three-dimensional world made of blocks and can craft items and build structures”), implying that the speaker’s statement does not refer to the real world but merely the game. Apparently originated from the 4chan board /pol/ around early 2018.

Dylan, like many nine-year-olds, enjoys books but is more enthusiastic when talking about Minecraft, which he does with the casual expertise that many children have with their favourite games. He's already made his own Hunger Games world in Minecraft at home, but couldn't get some of his traps to work.

2018 July 11, Alison Flood, Sian Cain, “How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-08:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, Minecraft.


magnificent seven

the magnificent seven (canonical plural)

After the 1960 Western film The Magnificent Seven.

Coordinate term: FANG

The “magnificent seven” now account for 29% of the market value of the S&P 500, and a whopping 61% of the NASDAQ 100, up from 20% and 53%, respectively, at the start of the year.

2023 July 20, “Big tech’s dominance is straining the logic of passive investing”, in The Economist, →ISSN:

“We are on the edge of an AI surge that will make the dotcom boom look like spring break,” says Boris Feldman, co-head of Freshfield's global tech practice, who advises multiple “magnificent seven” tech companies.

2024 July 20, Tabby Kinder, George Hammond, Hannah Murphy, Alex Rogers, quoting Boris Feldman, “Has Silicon Valley gone Maga?”, in FT Weekend, Big Read, page 6:

(business, colloquial) Seven Big Tech companies or their stock: Apple, Amazon, Alphabet Inc., Nvidia, Tesla, Meta, and Microsoft.


Minecraftlike

en-adj

Minecraftlike (comparative more Minecraftlike, superlative most Minecraftlike)

more Minecraftlike (comparative)
most Minecraftlike (superlative)

2015 July 25, Heath Hindman, “4 Screens Give a Look at Dragon Quest’s Minecraftlike Spinoff”, in PlayStation LifeStyle:

Resembling or characteristic of the game Minecraft.


OpenType

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(computing, typography) A file format, developed jointly by Microsoft Corporation and Adobe Inc., for storing computer fonts.


(computing) Abbreviation of Windows 2000.


WinMe

From Win (clipping of Windows) + Me (Millennium Edition).


crit out

en-verb

crit out (third-person singular simple present crits out, present participle critting out, simple past and past participle critted out or crit out)

crits out (present singular third-person)
critting out (participle present)
critted out (participle past)
critted out (past)
crit out (participle past)
crit out (past)

(video games, Minecraft, transitive) To kill (a player) with critical hits.


cabinet file

(software, Windows) A compress library archive file.


WINS

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(computing) A Microsoft-based solution stack consisting of the Windows Server operating system, Internet Information Services web server, .NET Framework, and SQL Server database.


MCYT

(fandom slang) An online video content creator (YouTuber or livestreamer) who makes content related to Minecraft.


MCYT

Unfortunately MCYT covers Literally Every Single Person who uploaded a Minecraft YouTube video and is suuuuper broad and general.

The popularity of the Minecraft YouTuber community (MCYT) has spiked with teenagers. They give youth a healthy environment to connect through common interests no matter their background. However, there are cons to the community that should not be overlooked.

2021 July 9, Natalie Ruggeri, “The Sides to MCYT”, in Kennedy Torch:

(fandom slang) The online fanbase centering on Minecraft video content creators.


SGCAPS

SG as an abbreviation from Swiss German (the first keyboard layout to use this feature) combined with abbreviation CAPS from Caps Lock.

(computing) A Windows keyboard feature that strictly produces an uppercase version of a letter whereas Shift produces an unrelated symbol.