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Microsoft bought LinkedIn this year, and LinkedIn bought Lynda last year (https://www.lynda.com/press/pressrelease?id=4563), though the Microsoft transaction seems like it's still in flight.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is a simple whitelabeling of Lynda (or perhaps adaptation to a slightly tweaked use case -- this doesn't seem focused specifically on organizational eLearning) since Lynda hasn't been discontinued as a service, but that's just off of my quick 30 second glance. Stream and Lynda look like they both do pretty much the same thing, so Microsoft might be capitalizing on its own brand recognition to sell the underlying service to Microsoft shops.

I'm purely speculating, though. Is there anyone on the Stream team who can comment?

parent eganist 10 years ago

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