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Re: Microsoft Stream

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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 :)

you can use an SP4 keyboard with an SP3 (and vice versa I guess)

Definitely, and some reviewers went as far to say that you can just buy the SP4 TypeCover and keep on using your SP3. Didn't work out well for me though, my SP3 was buggy as hell (wifi issues, couldn't wake up from sleep etc).

Re: Microsoft Stream

#52
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…

Microsoft Stream leverages Azure Active Directory so it's tied to corp identity in a lot of cases.

Re: Microsoft Stream

#53
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…

Some more details here - https://stream.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-stream-and...

Re: Microsoft Stream

#54
Instead of YouTube-Enterprise it would be nice to have a way to produce better video. I find it hard to sit through poorly produced and horribly narrated videos, some kind of hosted production service that helps make better videos would be really useful. Coach the user to get better lighting, sound and tighter editing.

Re: Microsoft Stream

#57
post #10

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

unlisted videos just means that others can't search for them. If someone gets access to the URL, they can still view the video. Adding video permissions allows the video owners to ensure that people who shouldn't watch your videos can't.

Re: Microsoft Stream

#58
post #36

A 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.

Kaltura has been around for years and they are a very mature product. However, what makes Microsoft Stream more competitive is the future integration with Office and other Microsoft platforms.

Re: Microsoft Stream

#59
post #3

Microsoft 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/

I'm one of the Stream engineering managers. Our team also operates Azure Media Services (AMS) and Office 365 Video. Stream is built on AMS.

Re: Microsoft Stream

#60
post #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?

I heard Stream and O365 Video will converge and Stream will also stand alone pricing too. So you can get Stream through office, or if you don't want to pay office you can pay Stream alone.
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