Meanings
- slangcomputingMicrosoft Windows.
Every point and counterpoint is peppered with derisive terms such as "Windoze," "File Mangler," and "PeeCees."
1986, PC Communications Corporation, PC Magazine, The Independent Guide to IBM-standard Personal Computing · Volume 15, page 852 more examples
I've had it with the Windoze Gestapo. They want to make everyone use Windoze. They have propogandize^([sic]) the public through computer publications and large newspapers.
1997 February 19, ROWE BOBBY S, “Defend yourself against the Windoze Gestapo”, in alt.destroy.microsoft (Usenet)My big fear was that they'd use some kind of weirdo operating system, but it turned out just to be Windoze. And not Windoze Millennium, NT, or '98, or even '95, but Windoze 3.1
2006, Anthony McGowan, Hellbent, page 118
Origin
Blend of Windows + doze, suggesting slow performance. First use appears c. 1986. See cite below.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French Windaube
- Windaubederogatory: Microsoft Windows
German Windoof
- Windoofderogatory: Microsoft Windows
Portuguese Ruindows
- Ruindowsderogatory: Microsoft Windows
Cite this entry
Windoze. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Windoze
“Windoze.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Windoze. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Windoze,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Windoze.
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