For everyone worried about software jobs going away, this is a good example of something which will create new jobs. Soon, some of us will be spending our time investigating why the green YouTubes [1] "is down for some reason" :-)
Microsoft Stream
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#42This is absolutly what I have been look for at my company. We are a non-profit educational company and training happens 90% during the start of the year. We need a way to gather ideas and present them to others in our company at our 60+ locations.
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#43Maybe 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...
Ah, corporate training videos. It's what Netlflix in another tab was invented for.
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#44Maybe 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...
Ah, corporate training videos. It's what Netlflix in another tab was invented for.
These are mostly CYA for the company, they don't really care if you don't, they just want to show compliance when something goes wrong...
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#45Is it a windows only, closed source, vendor lock-in thing or is the source available somewhere?
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#46I 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. Th…
Good point. Microsoft clearly got the memo. I work for a peer-to-peer video delivery provider (Kollective) and we partner with Microsoft to scale video delivery on enterprise networks.
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#47Is it a windows only, closed source, vendor lock-in thing or is the source available somewhere?
It is a cloud based SaaS service. Nothing to do with Windows. It's a hosted offering.
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#48Maybe 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...
This about best practices, knowledge sharing, executive communications!
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#49Microsoft 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…
It could provide for some interesting integration. For example, you're a company with 20 employees and a Microsoft Stream account that has a handful of training videos produced internally.
Now, let's say you want your junior programmers to be more familiar with MySQL basics. What if you could buy a Lynda MySQL training video from Microsoft, and have it added to your company Stream? Perhaps you add the video to a category on Stream so it can only be viewed by your junior programmers. Then, the license could charge you for each unique junior programmer that watches the video. If you hire a new junior programmer, you add them to that Stream category, they watch the MySQL training video, you get billed.
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#50Microsoft 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…
The main scenarios for Stream today are Corporate communications, Knowledge sharing, Training and IT help desk videos. Lynda is a primarily a content site. Stream is a more of a service for customer's own content. It's built on Azure Media Services and Azure.