This desperately needs the functionality of Slidepresenter[1], then it would be amazing. Without the option to more easily add more information to the videos, put them next to more context, this could fizzle into a dump for low quality "memos".
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#32Maybe things aren't as bad as I imagine them to be, but my immediate reaction to this was that now instead of working we are all going to be required to spend time watching "enterprise" videos - as if countless hours being wasted in senseless meetings watching someone's latest PowerPoint creation is not enough. Way to go, coders, way to go...
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#33I work on enterprise video for a number of years and the biggest problem isn't a delivery platform, it's infrastructure being ill suited for video.
A lot of enterprises are setup with a Spoke-Hub topology where all network data passes through the hub. Sometimes this is done for auditing purposes, and other times it's for security. Sometimes remote offices do not have internet access despite an internet connection. Their edge routers just use a VPN tunnel or MPLS network back into the hub.
In the end it's no distribution that kills but bandwidth. That why peer-to-peer video and multicasting are still around. Because in a lot of cases you can have one person browsing Youtube or watching a webcast from his desk and it will completely saturate the office data line.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
"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.
Now that would be very useful - screensharing, and Powerpoint slide switching integration would be the winner for me too. Webinars are a really interesting area - how much time do you dedicate to them if you don't mind me asking?
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#35Maybe things aren't as bad as I imagine them to be, but my immediate reaction to this was that now instead of working we are all going to be required to spend time watching "enterprise" videos - as if countless hours being wasted in senseless meetings watching someone's latest PowerPoint creation is not enough. Way to go, coders, way to go...
If anything, this should cut down on time for meetings if used properly. Plus there's no 2x speed button when you're meeting up in meatspace.
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#36A little late to the game, IMO. Solutions like Kaltura have been around for years. There are ton of "enterprise" video offerings on the market that do all these things... But I guess it doesn't matter, Microsoft just making a product will get it adopted no matter if it's actually good or not. Hopefully it's not as terrible as Sharepoint.
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#37Microsoft bought LinkedIn this year, and LinkedIn bought Lynda last year ( https://www.lynda.com/press/pressrelease?id=4563 ), though the Microsoft transaction seems like it's still in flight. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a simple whitelabeling of Lynda (or perhaps adaptation to a slightly tweaked use case -- this doesn't seem focused specifically on organizational eLearning) since Lynda hasn't been discontinue…
This is pure speculation, but I'm thinking they leveraged Azure Media Services[1] to deliver Stream, perhaps partially as a hero story for Azure. I feel like it's way too quick for them to have built an entire solution based off the Lynda stuff. I'm not even sure the companies are that integrated yet.
[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/media-services/
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#38It would be great if they used the Surface Pro 4 on the marketing page, not SP3. The keyboard on the SP4 is lightyears better :)
you can use an SP4 keyboard with an SP3 (and vice versa I guess)
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#39Microsoft bought LinkedIn this year, and LinkedIn bought Lynda last year ( https://www.lynda.com/press/pressrelease?id=4563 ), though the Microsoft transaction seems like it's still in flight. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a simple whitelabeling of Lynda (or perhaps adaptation to a slightly tweaked use case -- this doesn't seem focused specifically on organizational eLearning) since Lynda hasn't been discontinue…
as you say, the LinkedIn acquisition hasn't actually happened yet, so I don't understand how what you're speculating could be possible.
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#40>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.
To be fair, although many enterprise organizations use O365, the average customer size is quite small and reflects the fact that most businesses are SMB.