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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɒft/
• (General American, without the cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɔft/, /ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌsɔft/
• (General American, cot–caught merger, dialects of Canada) IPA: /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɑft/, /ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌsɑft/
• (Canada, dialects of the 米国発音) IPA: /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɒft/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈmɑekɹəˌsɔft/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɒft/

固有名詞

Microsoft

1. (trademark) Microsoft Corporation.

   Synonyms: (initialism) MS, (Nasdaq symbol, abbreviation) MSFT

派生語

名詞

Microsoft (plural Microsofts)

1. (figuratively) A company whose products are widespread.
   • 1995 August 21, Robert Metcalfe, “Microsoft and Netscape open some new fronts in escalating Web Wars”, in InfoWorld, volume 17, number 34, page 35:

     After its phenomenal stock offering two weeks ago, Netscape Communications Corp. is well on its way to becoming the Microsoft of the Internet.

   • 2001, Daniel Charles, Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food, →ISBN, page 110:

     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.

   • 2005, Merrill Goozner, The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs, →ISBN, page 64:

     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.

   • 2006, Andrew Beaujon, Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock, →ISBN, page 232:

     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.

動詞

Microsoft (third-person singular simple present Microsofts, present participle Microsofting, simple past and past participle Microsofted)

1. (slang, transitive) To Microsoftify.
2. (slang, transitive) To render more like Microsoft with regards to business practices and tactics.
   • 2003, Wine Enthusiast, volume 16, numbers 2-8, page 122:

     You could call it the Microsofting of the wine industry. Of course, wine is unlikely to be dominated by one producer or one distributor.

参考

• Category:Microsoft

Further reading

• Microsoft on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

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