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Please keep Office Mix if you cannot improve Stream
When will the interactive features for MIX work on Stream?
Our university has a fast approaching timeline to complete additional tutorials (created using MIX) which we've already rolled out to 900 medical and health science students. We're ready to use another product if the interactive features in PowerPoint's MIX do
Marc Mroz wrote:
Thank you so much for your feedback and putting together that list of the things that you liked about Office Mix and what we need to improve in Stream. We will use your feedback as we plan what to do next.
We are looking at what features, ideas, and concepts we can start pulling into Stream. At this point it time as you mentioned Stream is not a replacement for Office Mix. Stream is about videos, however Mix was about interactive content, videos, powerpoint, and had deeper features that were tailored to the education space.
We do believe that Stream and PowerPoint are the right place for the ideas/concepts Mix proved out in it's preview product, however it is going to take time for us to figure out exactly how/what that means in Stream.
not work with Stream.
MicrosoftLaVentra E. Danquah - We hear your concerns and frustrations and are looking into how we can bring some of the best of Office Mix into Stream/PowerPoint. We need to get a little further along in our planning, designing, and thinking before we can share more specifics. But we are listening and taking action internally here on the Stream and PowerPoint teams.
- I really hope your team gets the time and budget to make it happen in the very near future. As educators, we are really quite depending on this features. As are our students! Wouldn't be the first time my students ask me to record a lesson in mix, so that they can review it at home. I now share both links with them (mix & stream) and the first comments about stream were not that positive unfortunately... The absence of the table of content-navigation is a real nuisance to the students.
Why do this? Office Mix was a great add-on. Microsoft failed to promote it yet still it gathered a decent following. People started embedding it into infrastructure. Then Microsoft drops it.
Stream is not a replacement. Its just a video host - we don't need Microsoft for that.
Right now I'm typing on a Microsoft Surface. Its a great computer, but I am just waiting for Microsoft to drop it. I'll get a message one day saying that's the last update - so long and thanks. I used to have a Windows Phone. It was a great phone and that's what Microsoft did, one year into my contract.
It's really sad that a once great company doesn't seem to have an attention span any more. It just moves from one idea to the next. Attracting users then dumping them. As a user it feels like riding a wave. I wonder if Office 365 will do the same? - it does feel like we're at the crest.
In taking this approach, the company prevents others from developing longer term solutions - like the dog in the manger - sitting on the hay so the horses can't eat it.
I've been a fan of the Microsoft product, but this latest stunt with Office Mix is testing my loyalty.
Andrew
