The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
Microsloth Windows
/mi:'kroh?sloth` win?dohz/, n.
(Variants combine Microshift, Macroshaft, Microsuck with Windoze,
WinDOS. Hackerism(s) for ?Microsoft Windows?. A thirty-two bit extension
and graphical shell to a sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit operating system
originally coded for a four-bit microprocessor which was written by a
two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition. Also just called
Windoze, with the implication that you can fall asleep waiting for it to do
anything; the latter term is extremely common on Usenet. See Black Screen
of Death and Blue Screen of Death; compare X, sun-stools.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
Microsloth Windows
Windoze
/mi:'kroh-sloth" win"dohz/ (Or
"Windoze", /win'dohz/) A derogatory term for Microsoft
Windows which is so limited by bug-for-bug compatibility with
mess-dos that it is agonisingly slow on anything less than a
fast 486. Also called just "Windoze", with the implication
that you can fall asleep waiting for it to do anything; the
latter term is extremely common on Usenet.
Compare X, sun-stools.
[Jargon File]
(1996-10-08)