Seemingly against the vested interests of Azure Media Services, Microsoft has selected encoders from Haivision, a company we have come to associate with removing the need for cloud transcoding by packing in full ABR cascades in HEVC or H.264 into small form factor appliances for on-the-go live events. Such is the rise of streaming though, that the Microsoft Stream video service housed within Microsoft 365 is expanding its reach with the help of Haivision – in a peculiar move targeting C-level executives. Broadcast-grade or broadcast-quality are terms often thrown around regarding OTT video technologies and more often than not these promises fall short of the mark. Haivision makes such claims, but with the support of Microsoft infrastructure it would perhaps…