microserf /mi:'kro-s*rf/
[popularized, though not originated, by Douglas Copeland's
book "Microserfs"] A programmer at Microsoft, especially a low-level coder with
little chance of fame or fortune. Compare MicroDroid.
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Microsloth Windows /mi:'kroh-sloth` win'dohz/ n.
(Variants combine {Microshift, Macroshaft, Microsuck} with
{Windoze, WinDOS}. Hackerism(s) for `Microsoft Windows'. A
thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen bit
patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a
four bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company
that can't stand one bit of competition. Also just called
`Windoze', with the implication that you can fall asleep waiting
for it to do anything; the latter term is extremely common on
Usenet. See Black
Screen of Death and Blue Screen of Death;
compare X, sun-stools.