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I suggest you never visit https://www.office.com/ https://www.office.com/
by airstrike 1y ago
I suggest you never visit https://www.office.com/ https://www.office.com/
- DangitBobby 1y agoGood lord https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42751726 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42751726
- aydyn 1y agoNext they are going to rename Windows to Microsoft Copilot.
- onemoresoop 1y agoMicrosoft is the worst offender at renaming their products and services with such bad confusing names I don't think it's helping anyone, including Microsoft.
- airstrike 1y agoImagine literally squandering the brand name "OFFICE"
- kpil 1y agoI got unreasonably triggered by this.
- tiluha 1y agoYou are not alone. It evoked a physical reaction in me
- 9cb14c1ec0 1y agoMicrosoft Office is one of the most recognizable and valuable brands ever. I'm quite terrible at marketing, and even I can recognize how stupid the rebrand was.
- airstrike 1y agoLiterally this. It's one of the strongest names in all of software. It really boggles the mind.
- olyjohn 1y agoI thought that renaming Active Directory to Entra ID was bad. Every single tech person who ever touched a Windows server knows what AD is. Then they change to name to something that sounds like it's going to give you an anal probe. What a dumpster fire...
- bradstewart 1y agoThank you for this. As someone who recently had to stumble back into turning a few knobs in (what I thought would be) AD for Office 365 licensing needs, after ~10 years outside of the MS sandbox, I had no earthly idea what Entra was. Until right now.
- TeaBrain 1y agoI think there's little chance it won't be changed back. Changing the name was probably motivated by someone in management pushing the name change so that they could list it as a personal achievement as one of the "new" AI products they'd overseen the release of in the current zeitgeist.
- OccamsMirror 1y agoThis is the same company that thought it would be an awesome idea to rename "Microsoft Remote Desktop" to "Windows App" on MacOS. It wasn't. It's the dumbest name ever.
- thewebguyd 1y agoDon't forget Windows Mail->Outlook (New), replacing Outlook with Outlook (Classic). Same with "Teams (Classic)" and "Teams (New)" Or the Teams download page that had two different versions - Teams for Home and Teams for Work/School. Or .NET->.NET Core & .NET Framework->Back to .NET again.
- paradite 1y ago"To continue, please install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app" I got this on mobile. Seems to be pretty apt.
- snickerbockers 1y agoI keep missing meetings because I foolishly confuse Teams with Teams (classic).
- darkwater 1y agoOh. My. Fucking. God. Are they aware that people will struggle to find if Office is installed and that they will keep calling it Office til the end of times (aka the next rebranding that will revert back things) anyway?
- Lutger 1y agoWait, what? Is this a joke? Did they really rebrand Office to '365 Copilot app'? I feel like I'm missing the plot, they can't be serious.
- mike_hearn 1y agoDon't worry, the other Office homepage says that it's actually been renamed to just Microsoft 365, not Microsoft 365 Copilot App: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-office https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-offi... I got there by going to office.com and clicking Products > Microsoft Office. Lol. Rofl, even. This has made my day. And we all thought calling their third generation console Xbox One was the worst possible branding decision.
- airstrike 1y agoYes, they literally did that. It's absolutely moronic. Whoever came up with this idea should be fired along with everyone else who greenlit it.