Microsoft

Definitions

1. Microsoft Corporation.
2. A company whose products are widespread.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

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

“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.”

“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⟳.”

“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.”

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