micro- = M = microfloppies

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.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.