Microsoft Stream Is a New Video Service For Businesses (techcrunch.com) 34
An anonymous reader shares a TechCrunch report: Microsoft today launched Stream, a new business video service that aims to give businesses that want to share video internally the same kind of tools and flexibility that YouTube offers to consumers -- but with the added benefits of the security tools enterprises expect from their document management services. The service is now available as a free preview. As James Phillips, Microsoft's corporate VP of its Business Intelligence Products Group, told me, all it takes to get started with Stream is an email address. The user experience in Stream does take its cues from consumer services like Vimeo and YouTube, and includes a number of social features, including likes and comments, as well as recommendations. "We've all been trained as consumers to understand what beautiful and fully featured software looks like," Phillips told me. "And we are now delivering on those experiences in business software." Some of the basic use cases for using video in a company include training and employee communications.
Windows Media Player (Score:4, Funny)
From Microsoft's "me too" division. . . (Score:1)
At Microsoft's "me too" division we endeavor to take any service currently provided, add about 80% bloat, and release a buggier version several years after the original service was available.
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Yeah, they should have used unix as their base OS, but no, they had to buy DOS from a home programmer...
Monday morning quarterback (Score:3, Informative)
Microsoft already had a version of Unix at the time: Xenix, first designed for minis and licensed to OEMs (not customers). But it needed a lot of customization for every new architecture, and when they made the deal with IBM to license them an o/s they didn't have time to create a new Xenix flavor that ran well on x86. (A problem similar to the one Linus Torvalds solved more than a decade later).
So they bought DOS and figured that they would make it closer to Xenix in a later version. But other events occur
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> when they made the deal with IBM to license them an o/s they didn't have time to create a new Xenix flavor that ran well on x86.
Actually Xenix had been 'running well on 8086' for a couple of years when they made a deal with IBM. In fact that was the whole point of Xenix - to run on 8086 (later on 80286, 80386, ...). IBM did not want Xenix at all, it required a hard disk and IBM PC (5150) could not support one.
IBM wanted BASIC and CP/M for their new 'PC' that was targeted at competing against the Apple
Are you sure? (Score:2)
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Any service that depends on external servers isn't secure.
Any computer that isn't surrounded by a vibration isolated faraday cage and 100 tonnes of concrete isn't secure. So what? Do you think that the computers in your data centre are looked after better than Google looks after theirs? Any serious professional IT ... oh ..... Microsoft. The company responsible for the Sidkick debacle. Carry on there.
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It was Hitachi who corrupted the data during a SAN upgrade at Microsoft (which had acquired Sidekick only a year before).
This is a frequent problem with storage vendors. We had a similar thing happen at work with a big IBM SAN (7-digit price tag); the IBM guy wiped the data by mistake and said "sorry about that". And anyone who has managed a low-end MSI whitelabel (like the DS-4000) has probably gone through something similar or worse, like losing the arrays configs. Same for Clariion. Or Netapp.
The problem
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Classic. The only thing that trumps vendor bullshit is a major incident (or two), or if your company has money, a one-on-one call wih a Gartner or Forrester analyst.
I think the fundamental issue is that people tend to take people out of the disaster equation. I had to prepare a PowerPoint that looks like this to get management to understand the issue:
Replication -> Fire, earthquake, contained zombie invasion
Backups -> Oops sorry about that
You'd think they teach that in CS and IT-related MBA programs b
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Any service that depends on external servers isn't secure.
Any computer that isn't surrounded by a vibration isolated faraday cage and 100 tonnes of concrete isn't secure..
So are you saying that Microsoft servers are just as secure as ones in a Vibration isonlated Faraday cage and 99.99 tonnes of concrete?
So f it isn't perfect don't do anything, eh?
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No he is saying unless you have insane amounts of money and massive security teams then most likely MS, google, Amazon etc run far more secure servers than the average enterprise is ever capable of achieving.
Then perhaps he might not try to make perfect the enemy of good.
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Any service that depends on Microsoft isn't secure.
FTFY
Oh goodie! (Score:1)
That means all those shills that pretend to do product reviews on YouTube will vanish, 'cause they now have their own service, right?
RIGHT?
Streaming Straight to You (Score:2, Troll)
And the NSA.
Stream is built on Skype's core. It's going to suck, and it's going to have built in back doors.
Looks like an advertisement to me. (Score:2)
I put a Kodi system upstairs for our recording studio. They upload the commercials we made to it and play it to TV's within the building using SDI. Screw "YouTube" like - I put a "Tv Station" on an old Dell.
Interesting name. (Score:2)
I can't help but think this was a blatant attempt by Microsoft to suddenly gain ownership of the generic and long-used term "streaming".
Just wait for the rash of law suits from Microsoft against websites that have already been "streaming" audio/video for years.
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MS marketing cannot come up with unique names to save their life, or they just prefer to take generic terms and slap Microsoft in front. Either case, it's truly getting annoying. MS Surface, MS Edge, MS Stream, Windows Phone, all horrendous names. And when they do come up with original ones, we get Zune.
MS marketing hated the original Xbox name and tried to get it changed, but was shot down by popular vote. They've never been able to figure out what names would resonate with people.
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I'm surprised they didn't just call it MS console :-)
Will they try content id bs? try to flag desktop? (Score:2)
Will they try content id bs? try to flag the desktop?
Microsoft's stream (Score:2)
Share Video Internally (Score:3)
You're already on the internal network. Make a shared videos folder and have people just access them from the network share via some e-mail link or internal site link what not, this is not difficult at all. You don't need Microsoft to make a service for you - well maybe you do if you can't think of something this utterly simple.
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That is the sort of unmanaged shit organisations are sick of. It scales poorly, difficult to manage and in the end costs them far more than some software that actually manages this. Your advise is the type of advise that has made this sort of service so desperately needed.
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"It scales poorly"
If something THAT SIMPLE scales poorly, the issue lies with YOUR NETWORK STRUCTURE AND THE TECHNOLOGY BEHIND IT, not the video itself.
What would your advice be, eh? All that fucking wasted money. Your advice is worth precisely nothing as it doesn't save anybody money, gains no efficiency, and now you have to learn how to use ANOTHER SYSTEM when you've got built-in ones that already do the task.
Only a Microsoft Shill would shill so hard as to push another Microsoft product when Microsoft ha
Will Comcast Sue MS? (Score:1)
Comcast announce Stream which streams live TV (Jul 12, 2015): http://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/a-new-streaming-tv-service-from-comcast
Vimeo Plus competitor (Score:2)
The one technical difference between this and Vimeo Plus ($60/year) seems to be ADFS SSO support. Vimeo would do well to add that.
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