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Platformonomics TGIF #137: August 7, 2026
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Summer is flying by… News Useful Idiots, Fellow Travelers and Unregistered Foreign Agents: Oracle We’ve written at length about the financial risks of Oracle’s Hail Mary scramble…
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Windows XP Really is Immortal
Yesterday I was wondering how Microsoft will price Windows 7 for the netbook market and speculated that Microsoft could always keep offering the immortal Windows XP if necessary. And just like that, the edict came down from upon high. This suggests the OEMs aren’t falling for Windows 7 Starter Edition and Home Premium will be…
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Notes from the Super Heavyweight Bout
A few observations on the super heavyweight, no-holds-barred, ultimate cage match between Google and Microsoft. Some of these have been rattling around in my head for a while so please excuse my inability to embrace the real-time “what are you thinking (or eating) this instant” Twitter aesthetic. Google’s Soft Landing Google’s Q4 and Q1 performance…
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Fixations
Microsoft (market cap $182 billion) is fixated on Google. Google (market cap $122 billion) is fixated on Facebook. Facebook (market cap ~$3 billon) is fixated on Twitter. Who or what is Twitter fixated on? Revenue? Uptime? Oprah? Rolling up the $300 billion in market cap chasing them?
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Soracle
Proposed stock symbol: SORE Customer line: “I’m a SORE customer…” Rejected names: Sunacle? Too close to Unocal. Orasun? Sounds like a cloying dental product. Orsun? You could easily swap Ellison for Hearst in the remake of Citizen Kane… Ok, so this isn’t a merger of equals. It is the end of Sun. Only Oracle survives. …
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Circling the Drain – Maybe the Government Can Help?
Policymakers have woken up to the plight of the newspapers and are on the problem: Post Post-Intelligencer The newsprint carcass of the Seattle PI isn’t even cold yet and we’re already learning new (and perhaps revisionist) things about the departed: The two best print newspapers in the United States – the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and the…