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Microsoft Stream is no Replacement for Office Mix
I would like to add my voice to those here. I am extremely disappointed in the discontinuation of Office Mix. Why take a fully functional, well-used service that was loved by educators and discontinue it to replace it with something that other services (i.e. YouTube) already does much, much better. I just migrated over 300 Mixes to Stream. My Mixes had a privacy setting that made them only visible by someone who had the link. They are now in Stream and fully, publicly available to my entire company. To change anything (privacy, add them to a channel or group, etc.), I have to go video by video. Even to delete them, I have to do it one at a time which is simply ridiculous! The documentation provided about the migration was seriously lacking.
I can understand a desire to condense various services into one. The transition of Microsoft Classroom into Microsoft Teams was fairly well-handled. But this whole process reeks of short-sightedness and lack of thought about the users of the Mix service and their needs. If I had known that this would be the outcome of moving my videos into Stream, I would never have done it.
I hope that the team working on Stream gets it together and implements bulk actions ASAP.
- Robert RushakoffApr 01, 2018Copper Contributor
Again, as with everyone, the move to Stream is just dumping what was a great program (mix) and if had known they were going to dump it would never have put all the time in to have education programs here in the first place. I had asked the support people multiple times if the program would be around and always had response that it would be.
Have a month to go and still have not figured out a good reasonable program/platform to move to. Stream is not the answer.