Microsoftie

plural Microsofties

1. informalAn employee of Microsoft.

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

   1990, The Economist

   3 more examples

   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

   In the years since, I’ve had the privilege of working with many exceptional human beings, including Hubbers, Microsofties, customers, partners, our GitHub Stars, open-source maintainers, and developers around the world who’ve helped us shape GitHub.

   2025 August 11, Thomas Dohmke, “Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub ♥️”, in The GitHub Blog, retrieved 12 Aug 2025

   Synonyms: Microsofter, Softie