cheeseware
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- (computing, slang, derogatory) Exceptionally low-quality software.
- Synonyms: coasterware, crapware, crudware, (vulgar) shitware
- 2000 September 1, “The New Computers in School”, in Strategic Finance:
- Perhaps most important, it has removed us even further from the "gee whiz!" mind-set that dominated our first reactions to computing--a frame of mind that made us so appreciative of the wondrous complexity of those putty-colored boxes that we became vulnerable to the half-baked, the beta, and even the well-marketed cheeseware.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cheeseware.