Concepts coined on the record. Each enters the vocabulary in one issue and is cited by the issues that follow, so the publication compounds. Nothing here is silently patched; a term means what its coining issue says it means.
A platform shift is real when the incumbent's own best customers defect to the new layer for their core workload, not their experiments.
Logged as Issue No. 3's sixth signal after the supplementary session, where Gates set the hardware test for the OS position: a harness that runs only its maker's model is the boutique path.
Licensing what you lack counts as the 1995 play only if you ship it at full strength. A licensed future deployed stripped is not speed, it is domestication.
Named when Microsoft licensed a full agent harness and shipped it with dispatch, connectors, plugins, and scheduled tasks removed, gated to the premium tier. The mirror is 1995, when the same company licensed Mosaic from Spyglass and shipped it whole, free, into the widest channel on earth.
Acquiring or licensing the future in order to domesticate it: the incumbent takes in the thing that threatens its unit of account, then cages it to protect the existing product.
Precedent II already contained the move. Britannica owned Compton's, shipped one of the first CD-ROM encyclopedias in 1989, and caged it to protect the leather sets and the commissions they paid.