Therefore, this process is more complex and time-consuming than uploading to Office Mix was. Moreover, uploading such video files to Stream can also take a lot of time. However, upon testing the PowerPoint-Stream options in more detail, it was found that the exporting to video option in PowerPoint for uploading in Stream, depending on the quality option, can take a lot of time and produce large file sizes. Moreover, it is also stated that 'Microsoft Forms will be coming to PowerPoint over the next few months to replace quiz interactivity'. With regard to PowerPoint, Microsoft announced there would be a recording tab, and presentations would then be able to be published in Stream and shared across the organisation thus far, please note this is not available for Mac.
Over time, we'll enhance the analytics capabilities for videos on Microsoft Stream’.Īdditionally, in the detailed 174-page user guide document on Stream, there is still very little mention of how to add any useful Mix-level interactivity. ‘We are working to bring interactivity to the Microsoft Stream video player so you can build, upload, play back, and share more Mix-like content on Microsoft Stream (that includes quizzes, ability to jump to different parts of the presentation, and more). Microsoft announced clearly on its Office Mix discontinuation of service page that: 3.1 Other Evidence That Microsoft’s ‘Transition’ Was Inadequate Sharing videos outside the organisation, however, adds another layer of work that was not required in Office Mix.
However, MP4s downloaded from Office Mix, or exported videos from PowerPoint, can be shared freely with anyone anywhere using a production server or video platform. Key failings to date: no real Mix-like interactivity on Stream and the inability to share content freely outside the organisation on Stream. Did They Actually Bring The Best Of Office Mix To The ‘Transition’?
In the ‘meanwhile’, Office Mix users were given approximately seven months to migrate their Mixes as videos to Microsoft Stream, download them as PowerPoint files or download them as MP4 videos they were also advised to download any analytics data as Excel files.
And, its ‘fans’ were ‘thanked’ for their ‘positive feedback’, and told that Microsoft would be ‘ bringing the best of Office Mix directly into PowerPoint, Microsoft Stream, and Microsoft Forms for Office 365 subscribers on Windows PCs’.
The sleek, all-in-one, HTML5-production, cloud-based, Office Mix Preview, which was freely available, freely shareable, interactive, and full of features was shut down. What Was The ‘Transition’ Microsoft Offered Its Office Mix Users? So why did Microsoft knowingly offer an inadequate solution? Or rather, and more pertinently, why did they offer Office Mix at all? 2. For example, a Microsoft Program Manager with regard to the inadequacy of Microsoft’s transition from Office Mix stated on this forum discussion that ‘we are looking now very seriously on how we can bridge that gap with PowerPoint and Stream’. However, some analysis of Microsoft Tech Community forum discussion called ‘ Microsoft Stream is no replacement for Office Mix’, indicates Microsoft terminated Office Mix knowing the transition it was providing was inadequate (section 3 provides more discussion on this issue). Nevertheless, in a most bizarre software-release life cycle, Microsoft moved to a completely different solution this ‘solution’, Microsoft termed a ‘transition’ in a section on its announcement page about Office Mix Preview’s end of service.
The logical expectation that I suspect most of the users of Office Mix had had (before it was shut down, that is), was that Office Mix Preview or Beta version software would at some point move to stable release. A Review Of Microsoft Office Mix's Closure