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
