NeWS

/neewis/ , /n[y]oois/ , /n[y]ooz/ , n. [acronym; the Network Window System ]
The road not taken in window systems, an elegant PostScript -based
environment that would almost certainly have won the standards war with X if
it hadn't been proprietary to Sun Microsystems. There is a lesson here that
too many software vendors haven't yet heeded. Many hackers insist on the
two-syllable pronunciations above as a way of distinguishing NeWS from
Usenet news (the netnews software).