MicroDroid

2 definitions found

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  MicroDroid n. [Usenet] A Microsoft employee, esp. one who posts to
     various operating-system advocacy newsgroups. MicroDroids post
     follow-ups to any messages critical of Microsoft's operating systems,
     and often end up sounding like visiting fundamentalist missionaries. See
     also {astroturfing}; compare {microserf}.
  


  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  MicroDroid
       
          [{Usenet}] A {Microsoft} employee, especially one who posts to
          various operating-system advocacy newsgroups. MicroDroids post
          follow-ups to any messages critical of {Microsoft}'s operating
          systems, and often end up sounding like visiting Mormon
          missionaries.
       
          [{Jargon File}]