microsoft
Used colloquially as a verb meaning to bloat, over-engineer, or enterprise-ify a simple product.
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Used colloquially as a verb meaning to bloat, over-engineer, or enterprise-ify a simple product.
They totally microsofted the login flow, six clicks.
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- enterprisey62%
(computing, _, slang, often, derogatory) Of, pertaining to, or resembling the sort of software that would be developed for a large commercial enterprise.
- slopification59%
The act of slopifying a product; using artificial intelligence to make a product worse.
- enshittification maxxing57%
Enshittification maxxing is when a company stops pretending to care and goes absolutely full send on the decay process — cutting support teams, piling on ads, introducing paywalls for features that used to be free, all at once. The '-maxxing' suffix, borrowed from optimization culture, is used sarcastically here: these companies are 'maximizing' their strategy, just one aimed entirely at short-term extraction at the expense of literally every user. The word implies both intensity and absurdity.
- bloat57%
To cause to become distended.
- microcook57%
A functional American verb meaning simply to cook or heat something in a microwave — stripping away the brand name and going straight to describing the action. While most people just say 'microwave it,' microcook shows up in recipes, food packaging, and casual conversation as a tidy alternative. It has the practical, no-nonsense energy of American kitchen language that wants to sound precise without being fussy.