Microsoft vs Msdn - What's the difference?
microsoft | msdn | initialism |
(figuratively) a company whose products are widespread.
* 2001 , Daniel Charles, Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food (ISBN 0738202916), page 110:
* 2005 , Merrill Goozner, The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs (ISBN 0520246705), page 64:
* 2006 , Andrew Beaujon, Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock (ISBN 0306814579), page 232:
(slang) to Microsoftify.
(slang) to make more like Microsoft with regards to perceived business practices and tactics.
* 2003 , Wine Enthusiast (volume 16, issues 2-8?, page 122)
Microsoft is a initialism of msdn.
As a noun microsoft
is (figuratively) a company whose products are widespread.As a verb microsoft
is (slang) to microsoftify.As an initialism msdn is
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English
Alternative forms
* MicroSoft, Micro-Soft (former names of the company) * (pejorative)Noun
(en noun)- Similarly, said Fraley, farmers were going to demand Bt cotton or Roundup-resistant soybean plants no matter where they went shopping for seeds. Monsanto would be the Microsoft of agriculture.
- The company wanted to turn Celera into the Microsoft of the gene-hunting world, selling its version of the human genome to private or public gene hunters through a proprietary computer program.
- Shepherding is more or less gone (though there’s an interesting move back toward discipleship in today’s church especially among those influenced by Rick Warren’s blockbuster book The Purpose-Driven Life ), but Integrity remains as sort of the Microsoft of worship music.
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* (wikipedia "Microsoft")Verb
(en verb)- You could call it the Microsofting of the wine industry. Of course, wine is unlikely to be dominated by one producer or one distributor.
