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The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

Microsloth Windows /mi:'kroh?sloth` win?dohz/, n. (Variants combine Microshift, Macroshaft, Microsuck with Windoze, WinDOS. Hackerism(s) for ?Microsoft Windows?. A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit operating system originally coded for a four-bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition. Also just called Windoze, with the implication that you can fall asleep waiting for it to do anything; the latter term is extremely common on Usenet. See Black Screen of Death and Blue Screen of Death; compare X, sun-stools.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Microsloth Windows Windoze /mi:'kroh-sloth" win"dohz/ (Or "Windoze", /win'dohz/) A derogatory term for Microsoft Windows which is so limited by bug-for-bug compatibility with mess-dos that it is agonisingly slow on anything less than a fast 486. Also called just "Windoze", with the implication that you can fall asleep waiting for it to do anything; the latter term is extremely common on Usenet. Compare X, sun-stools. [Jargon File] (1996-10-08)