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Microsoft Stream is no Replacement for Office Mix
MicrosoftChristopher Sherman - You are correct that Microsoft Stream is not a full replacement for Office Mix. We plan over the course of time to bring some of the awesome features of Mix to Stream, but right now Stream lets you play your Mixes as videos.
Can you give more specifics on upload times that took really long on Stream? Are you talking time to upload the file to Stream only, or time it took to be able to play the video after transcoding was done? If you give us more specifics there we might be able to see what's going on.
Agree. this is really a problem as I also produced quite a few training modules that are interactive. I put a ton of work into these and now the whole this is just useless. They don't work without being online in mix. Stream is just a video. If I wanted to do videos I would have done videos.
What replacement is there?
Couldn't agree more to the comments in these posts.
I am a high school Physics teachers and had tentatively begun to move all my efforts in on-line teaching resources to Mix and, like other contributors, had promoted the product strongly in my school, running a number of INSET sessions on it.
Mix was brilliant - easier to use than all the methods I had toyed with previously. And the ability to embed other HTML5 content, such as interactive PhET simulations, was so exciting.
I'm hoping Stream will get there in the end but at the moment I think we've taken a big step backward.
- Marc Mroz
Robert Rushakoff - As far as I know there isn't a full replacement for Office Mix which was a "preview" service, sorry. We will be working to bring more mix like features to Stream over time in the future.