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Re: Microsoft Stream

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post #10

It seems like using unlisted videos with YouTube solves 99% of the use cases.

Would uses cases that require corporate security account for only 1%?

And for those use cases, you can have specific permissions with Google apps: http://i.imgur.com/NJPZ7Fa.png

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#22
post #9
post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's Enterprise Youtube :-/

It's not really enterprise unless it's hooked into a corporate authentication system with policy controls and management capabilities. I'm puzzled why this isn't attached to Office365 for those reasons. The marketing page for it says that it's for companies, but the whole thing makes my inner MS admin twitch: self-sign up with no mention of SSO, docs are pitched as if it's a consumer product with no administrative fe…

Seems like they are following the ever so popular "lean startup" approach.

They're announcing a small, separate product to validate if there is demand. Then they'll get early users and burn money while they figure out how to make it into a profitable business.

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#23

>I wanted greater privacy Yeah, Microsoft clearly is the way to go.

Snarky comments aside, Microsoft was always targetting entreprises, think office365.

Windows botnet is somethijg completely seperate. They don't care about entreprises there, they only want data.

Do not conflate these two.

Google is 100% data, Microsoft is maybe 50.

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#24
post #9
post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's Enterprise Youtube :-/

It's not really enterprise unless it's hooked into a corporate authentication system with policy controls and management capabilities. I'm puzzled why this isn't attached to Office365 for those reasons. The marketing page for it says that it's for companies, but the whole thing makes my inner MS admin twitch: self-sign up with no mention of SSO, docs are pitched as if it's a consumer product with no administrative fe…

In what world do you live where this does not have AD?

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#25
Although this looks cool, i don't know how well it would last.

I guess my issue is that i don't understand how this would scale.

There is not going to be a massive amount of customers for a specialized enterprise video platform, and there's already video support in Sharepoint?

That would make pricing tricky, since this is essentially a single feature?

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#26
post #13

This is going to be huge. 10 years ago, I would never have thought that technology alone sufficiently differentiated YouTube from "long tail" offerings like Vevo or Twitch. It turns out you can have multiple, multiple-billion-dollar businesses using essentially the same platform. The use cases inherent to various content niches inform new user interfaces and modes of interacting with the underlying video data. Enterp…

"Enterprise Video is a huge content niche." - most definitely, almost this exact same thing is in my ideas notebook (as I'm sure it is for many people), especially with Office 365 integration.

There's going to be a whole ecosystem around more internal video production, webinars and training sessions going forwards. Going to be a really nice niche.

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#27
It would be great if they used the Surface Pro 4 on the marketing page, not SP3. The keyboard on the SP4 is lightyears better :)

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#28
post #13

This is going to be huge. 10 years ago, I would never have thought that technology alone sufficiently differentiated YouTube from "long tail" offerings like Vevo or Twitch. It turns out you can have multiple, multiple-billion-dollar businesses using essentially the same platform. The use cases inherent to various content niches inform new user interfaces and modes of interacting with the underlying video data. Enterp…

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Re: Microsoft Stream

#29
post #27

It would be great if they used the Surface Pro 4 on the marketing page, not SP3. The keyboard on the SP4 is lightyears better :)

I sold my Surface Pro 3 because of the bad keyboard on it :P. Went with an ultrabook instead as I just used it for typing notes anyway.

Re: Microsoft Stream

#30
post #13

This is going to be huge. 10 years ago, I would never have thought that technology alone sufficiently differentiated YouTube from "long tail" offerings like Vevo or Twitch. It turns out you can have multiple, multiple-billion-dollar businesses using essentially the same platform. The use cases inherent to various content niches inform new user interfaces and modes of interacting with the underlying video data. Enterp…

"Enterprise Video is a huge content niche." - most definitely, almost this exact same thing is in my ideas notebook (as I'm sure it is for many people), especially with Office 365 integration. There's going to be a whole ecosystem around more internal video production, webinars and training sessions going forwards. Going to be a really nice niche.

I have the need to produce internal webinars for a reasonably sized organisation. It will be interesting to see if they add live streaming, the ability to have real-time text chat and screensharing.

Its slightly odd that a product called Stream doesn't actually 'stream' - though I understand that they are using th eterm in a different way here.

For the moment, I'll stick with Youtube Live.

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