User-obsequious

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

  user-obsequious adj. Emphatic form of {user-friendly}. Connotes a
     system so verbose, inflexible, and determinedly simple-minded that it is
     nearly unusable. "Design a system any fool can use and only a fool will
     want to use it." See {WIMP environment}, {Macintrash}.
  
  



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

  user-obsequious
       
           Emphatic form of {user-friendly}.  Connotes a system
          so verbose, inflexible, and determinedly simple-minded that it
          is nearly unusable.  "Design a system any fool can use and
          only a fool will want to use it."
       
          See {WIMP}, {Macintrash}.
       
          See also {user-unctuous}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1999-06-27)