user-obsequious

jargon 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.

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(1999-06-27)