Microsoft Is About to Utterly Embarrass Google’s Stadia
Getting there first is, apparently, not everything.
There’s a scene in The Social Network, where one of the cofounders of HarvardConnection — arguing over whether or not to sue Mark Zuckerberg for stealing their website idea — makes a claim that is often taken as a sacred truth in real life.
Divya Narendra: We know he stole our idea, we know he lied to our faces for a month and a half.
Cameron Winklevoss: No, he never lied to our faces.
Divya Narendra: Okay, he never saw our faces. Fine. He lied to our email accounts and he gave himself a forty two day head start, because he knows what apparently you don’t, which is that getting there first is everything.
The characters in this movie are aghast — devastated in fact! — to learn that someone who was working for them had a 42-day head start to build a social network that they were convinced would make them rich. 42 days. Barely over a month. That’s all it took, the story goes, for The Facebook to get such a headstart that no one could catch it.
This is, of course, nonsense. And Microsoft is proving it.
Today, the company announced that it’s developing a TV app for its Xbox Game Pass service — which includes the ability to stream games via Microsoft’s xCloud technology…
