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Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”
- SilverElfin 10mo agoBizarre and desperate
- nephihaha 10mo agoPoe's Law in action.
- pu_pe 10mo agoI would have thought the Office brand was much more valuable and recognizable than Copilot.
- viraptor 10mo agoYeah, but that was a problem. Now they fixed it and Copilot immediately has 36286162% higher adoption rate.
- burnt-resistor 10mo agoExpect Clippy in Notepad, VS Code, and Github soon is my bet, along with suggestions to spend money on a "today only" subscription offer.
- xquce 10mo agoEven worse, meet Mico (as in “Mi”crosoft “Co”pilot). https://copilot.microsoft.com/labs/experiments/mico https://copilot.microsoft.com/labs/experiments/mico
- paodealho 10mo agoHeh.. I remember when they announced this thing like 6 months ago. It was fully white and people mocked it a lot for resembling a drop of male bodily fluids. Now it seems they fixed it in the most lazy way (changing the color) but managed to give it an awful name. "Mico" is a group of various monkey species.
- IAmBroom 10mo agoFirst problem: you thought. You are not qualified for Microsoft marketing (now called Copilot Human Incentivizing).
- rchaud 10mo agoOffice has a monopoly and has reached the upper bound of how much more they can sell each year. The only option to force number to go up is to rebrand it and jack up the price. People know how much office suite should cost. They don't know what "AI" should cost.
- oaiey 10mo agoOffice not so much I think. Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook ... totally. But Office is just a packaging name no one uses day to day.
- monom 10mo agoNo word in that title makes sense for an office suite.
- rhabarba 10mo agoEspecially not "Microsoft".
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- nazgu1 10mo ago#microslop ;)
- lousken 10mo agoCopislop
- rhabarba 10mo agoWaiting for Adobe to rename Photoslop.
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- Polizeiposaune 10mo agoSomeone else suggested "Microslop Coslopit with Slopfice 365"
- mozarella 10mo agoSlopilot
- BomberFish 10mo ago"The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office)" has got to be the worst rebrand ever. This is gonna be up there with Twitter's rebrand as a case study 20 years down the line.
- falcor84 10mo agoI still put "Max" as the second worst (after "X").
- adastra22 10mo agoWhich max?
- spiffytech 10mo agoHBO Max was renamed to just Max. They've now changed it back.
- array_key_first 10mo agoI don't know how they could look at a brand like "HBO Max" and, somehow, deduce that "Max" is the most important part of the name.
- WorldMaker 10mo agoThe executives in charge at that point made a lot of money on the "90 Day Fiance" "franchise", among other badly and/or dully and/or grossly named things. IP and branding wasn't exactly their strong suit.
- Tsiklon 10mo agoThat one I think may be the HBO rebrand.
- gosub100 10mo ago737 wasn't the best rebrand either. RIP
- wolvoleo 10mo agoNote: this already happened 6 months ago. It's screwy and confusing but Microsoft doesn't believe in understandable branding.
- sometimes_all 10mo agoPost title is a bit misleading. I see that Microsoft 365 still has the same name. The one-time purchases are still called Office 2024 or some such. It's just the umbrella android/iOS app where you can do all of office that's changed its name from "Microsoft Office" to "Microsoft 365 Copilot". But still agree with the general sentiment that the branding is getting even worse than before.
- LeoPanthera 10mo agoIf that's the case it is not obvious office.com's title now says "Welcome to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app", and right underneath it says "The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office)".
- concinds 10mo agoWhat’s not obvious? It went from “Microsoft 365” (the dumb but old rebrand) to “Microsoft 365 Copilot”.
- savolai 10mo ago”Formerly Office” suggests Office is no more.
- TiredOfLife 10mo ago”Formerly Office” happened in october 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20241001025949/https://www.office.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20241001025949/https://www.offic...
- savolai 10mo agoSo it’s obvious for those who can piece together the long term marketing narrative.
- Elfener 10mo agoIt has been renamed for a while now. In this modern world, companies no longer need brands that consumers know, since they aren't selling products. Instead they're trying to sell the company by showing that they're a leader in so-called "AI".
- lowlevel 10mo agoMaybe just so they can count office usage as Copilot usage.
- passwordoops 10mo agoThis makes the most sense
- adastra22 10mo agoThey already do, as if you go to office.com you get redirected to copilot and have to hunt for the unintuitive link in the sidebar to actually find Office.
- 1718627440 10mo agoSorry, I install MS Office from massgrave.
- tw1984 10mo agowhen you have been selling the same junk for decades, you can always rename it and keep selling the same junk. just imagine all those poor engineers who have to maintain such a junk.
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- rhabarba 10mo agoOr Linux, being an American product.
- pjmlp 10mo agoThis is getting bizarre, worse than Balmer's Microsoft.
- epolanski 10mo agoIt's a good analogy. Balmer went into the right direction (cloud), but with the wrong execution. Nadella is also going into a sensible direction (ai), but the execution is abysmal. Instead of focusing on properly executing a handful of projects where AI could be leveraged successfully, they went all in on AI everywhere with only a very handful of useful tools.
- pjmlp 10mo agoUnfortunely it has also landed on DevDiv experience, see AI on Windows Terminal, Aspire Dashboard,...
- vips7L 10mo agoI guess I haven’t updated my terminal in a while. I haven’t seen the forced ai there yet.
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- passwordoops 10mo agoIf there was no merger/takeover and you need to add "formerly" to the brand name, you should keep the original branding
- fuzzfactor 10mo agoRight, it's not a takeover, it's a "slip-under" without any adversarial corporate action except from inside Microsoft itself. As it becomes less relevant more effectively than an outside force calling the shots. Another one where the users notice instantly, and also means a lot to enterprises but the Microsoft executives seem to be so insulated they don't even seem to be paying attention at all. This is the kind of thing that Apple and Google have been taking to the bank more every time. With all the brilliant engineers who are still there actually putting in good code, why can't that pipeline be maintained at least to the continued benefit of users, if not better than ever without some kind of Ballmerizing still getting in the way at this late date? Looking at the fundamentals, if Microsoft itself can no longer afford to maintain separate Office and Copilot efforts, how is a less-well-funded enterprise supposed to be able to? Instead of accepting the nonideal combination, maybe it's actually a sign that it's the right time to choose one or the other since that's the opposite direction Microsoft is going :\ At least on a per-machine basis. I don't really mind experimenting with Copilot but I don't want it at all on an established office machine.
- billyp-rva 10mo agoMight as well go all the way and call it "Microsoft 365 Copilot: Best App for Office"
- Anamon 10mo ago"Microsoft 365 Copilot Best App for Office FREE 2026 New AI Word Text Letter Writer Not Pages"
- user____name 10mo agoFor a company that likes branding so much, they sure suck at it.
- tokai 10mo agoThis has to be to cheat the usage numbers for Copilot. Else they have truly lost the plot.
- LorenPechtel 10mo agoThey've (all the big guys) invested vast sums into AI. If the users don't buy into it that's a huge loss which will be a black mark on whoever directed the funding to it. Thus it must be made to succeed. If it worked there would be no need to keep trying to cram it down our throats. My Echo devices used to be well behaved, the only ads on the audio devices being stuff quite relevant to whatever I had just asked. My Show always had ads, but on a third of the screen and never in the way. Now it's getting aggressive about pushing the Alexa+ stuff, more than once I've had to get up and X off screens that didn't go away on their own.
- itronitron 10mo agoI think it's intended to discourage people from switching to 365 Classic, which has the Office suite but does not include Copilot.
- terminalbraid 10mo agoYou say that like it's mutually exclusive.
- ljm 10mo agoI'll put money on Windows 12 being rebranded to either Windows Copilot or Copilot OS for Windows.
- rjzzleep 10mo agoIt's okay, you have to use cloud copilot anyway since you'll barely have enough RAM for your browser moving forward.
- Maken 10mo agoThe concept of Windows and operating systems is so 90s. The next version will be Copilot Portal, your access point to the Copilot ecosystem.
- bee_rider 10mo agoI think it’ll be called “Copilot Substem for Linux” or something incomprehensible like that.
- passwordoops 10mo agoMicrosoft Restarting would be more fitting
- tonyedgecombe 10mo agoMicrosoft Copilot Recall Ai Pro.
- ljm 10mo agoMicrosoft Windows X Copilot One Series Y
- actsasbuffoon 10mo agoHow long until the marketing geniuses at Microsoft launch “Copilot Copilot for Copilot?”
- The_President 10mo agoWindows 14 will just be called Pilot, where the user just sits back and watches the computer “do its thing.”
- nelox 10mo ago1975: Traf-O-Data renamed Microsoft. Traffic counting ditched. Visionary. 1985: MS-DOS released. Users typed everything. Peak convenience. 1995: Windows 95 launched. Clippy forced assistance. Users thrilled. 2012: Metro interface rolled out. Tiles everywhere. Intuitive design. 2014: Windows Azure renamed Microsoft Azure. “Windows” dropped. Bold move. 2020: Office 365 renamed Microsoft 365. Bing renamed Microsoft Bing. Defender renamed Microsoft Defender. Branding masterstroke. 2022: Office brand killed after 32 years. Portal substituted. Heartwarming farewell. 2023: Bing Chat renamed Copilot. Azure AD renamed Entra ID. Creativity unleashed. 2024: Groove Music renamed endlessly. Finally axed. Customer loyalty rewarded. 2025: Microsoft 365 renamed Microsoft 365 Copilot app. Price hiked. Bargain. 2026: Copilot slapped on everything. Rebranding triumphs. Bugs eternal. Pure genius.
- rjzzleep 10mo agoGenuine question: are you German? (I approve)
- nelox 10mo agoNo, I’m not German. But danke for the approval, I’ll take it anyway.
- The_President 10mo agoCopiLot has detected you have asked about Windows Genuine Advantage in Germany language.
- hacker_homie 10mo ago2026: Copilot chat boxes everywhere, Users typed everything. Peak convenience.
- rich_sasha 10mo agoYou type the question, Copilot tells you where to click. "Bit higher, higher, no too far, down now, no, below the red line. The other red line. Yes this one... no the one you were just over".
- d4rkp4ttern 10mo agoNice , this is only the 37’th Copilot product from M$FT
- Tistel 10mo agoI heard on some podcast that there is such a thing as: "Microsoft Excel World Championship" and someone named Diarmuid Early won it last year. I would pay $2.56 to watch an Excel battle between a slop skipper and him. Money is on him. I am team John Henry.
- whynotmaybe 10mo agoOn a side note, Québec city's parking app is called Copilote+
- hagbard_c 10mo agoIt is 2026, the year of The War of the Memes Office worker: Somebody set us up the bomb. Manager who chose Microsoft over the available alternatives: Main screen turn on. Microsoft-labelled robot: All your files are belong to us Microsoft-labelled robot: You have no chance to survive make your time Microsoft-labelled robot (voice changed): We are the Bot. Lower your firewalls and surrender your data. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile. Microsoft-labelled robot: Freedom is irrelevant. Self determination is irrelevant. Your archaic culture is authority driven. It has been decided that a single individual will be selected to speak for us. You have been chosen to be that voice. Manager (voice changed): I am the beginning, the end, the one who is many. I am the Bot.
- findthewords 10mo agoIf Microsoft Office is an AI app then Microsoft is the #1 AI company in the world!
- barney54 10mo agoWow this is dumb. The reason I’m on Windows is because of Office. For my needs Office on Windows is the best—otherwise I’d be on a Mac or Linux. I use AI everyday and never found a use case for Copilot. So why rebrand Office, their best product after Copilot, their worst product?
- b112 10mo agoDidn't they put Office in the cloud? If so, why is Windows needed? You could run anything plus Office.
- Maken 10mo agoThe web version is a complete reimplementation with about as many backward compatibility problems as LibreOffice.
- 1718627440 10mo agoActually LibreOffice has better backward compatibility than MS Office now. If you have a MS Office 2003 file that current MS Office can't open, try LibreOffice.
- rhabarba 10mo agoLibreOffice can't properly render ODT files created with OpenOffice-before-Oracle. I highly doubt their DOCX support is any better.
- IAmBroom 10mo ago"I don't like X, so I'm guessing Y is bad."
- 1718627440 10mo agoDoubt what you like, but I "rescued" old MS Office documents for my grandfather with that. Also this is a common fear when leaving MS Office, so you can bet they work on that. I never had someone complain over OO-compatibitlity until now, so there is that.
- rhabarba 10mo agoIt is calming to see that in the end, WordPerfect Office outlived Microsoft Office.
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- nhinck3 10mo agoDoes anyone have the video of Satya waffling on about agents following you around as he fumbles to explain the value of copilot?
- jgalt212 10mo agoThe beatings will continue until the stock price goes down.
- smallvariance 10mo agoMicrosoft Office was a very strong brand, with decades of brand recognition and an enormous amount of value. This feels very much like throwing out the baby with the bathwater here ... while I can see the reasons for doing it, it very much seems like they're losing a lot from this name change.
- AlotOfReading 10mo agoDunno if I can see the reasons for doing it. Imagine this in another product: Coca-cola 24/7 autopilot beverage (formerly sprite)
- array_key_first 10mo ago"yo dude, I need me a sip of that ice cold M (formerly known as Coca-Cola)!" The M stands for mmmmm.
- mapt 10mo agoMarketing got high off AI delusions again.
- ahartmetz 10mo agoMarketing is absolutely right though, according to MS Copilot for Marketing
- bluehex 10mo agoSuch confusing naming they can't even keep it straight in the announcement. "The Microsoft 365 Copilot app" in the introductory paragraph. Then there's a button "Buy Microsoft 365" The link below is as "Download Microsoft 365 apps for MacOS" And the file you get is: Microsoft_365_and_Office_16~Installer.pkg So is it the "Microsoft 365 Copilot app", or is it just "Microsoft 365" or multiple "Microsoft 365 apps"? Above it says "formerly Office" and then the installer is named with "and Office". It's a jumble of inconsistency in just the first few lines on this landing page.
- GaryBluto 10mo agoI'm struggling to determine whether it is a singular "app" or multiple apps for various "Microsoft 365" functions, or both.
- WorldMaker 10mo agoThis name change is about a single "app" that was formerly called "Office app", not to be confused with the Office "suite", which in more cases than not also gets renamed, but in a subordinate brand sort of way ("the Office suite of applications, brought to you as a part of Microsoft 365"). The "Office app" itself was mostly just a launcher for the other apps. Now it is also/primarily an LLM chat interface.
- ulrikrasmussen 10mo agoI genuinely thought this was a joke when I saw the headline, and I had to double check the domain name to verify that this wasn't a parody. Apart from being absolutely abysmal marketing, the front page alone is wildly inconsistent: * "Welcome to Microsoft 365 Copilot" * "The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office) [...]" * "Microsoft 365 (formerly Microsoft Office 365) is a subscription service [...]" Which is it, "Microsoft 365 Copilot", "(The) Microsoft 365 Copilot app", "(The) Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office)", "Microsoft 365" or "Microsoft 365 (formerly Microsoft Office 365)"? I think Microsoft delegated all marketing decisions to AI. Not even joking.
- Tsiklon 10mo agoFrom reading the other comments this happened a while ago, but it’s the first I’ve heard of it. This is rather annoying and short sighted of Microsoft. If anything this change is emblematic of the rot that exists in Microsoft currently. Microsoft Office is one of the strongest recognised brands in technology, if you’ve used a windows PC at any point in the last 30 years you will know of Microsoft Office. Not only that but the brand name is trusted; office and the applications therein are the standard for general purpose business work (as much as I’d prefer Libreoffice etc to gain market share) Throwing that brand away in favour of an untrusted, unwanted, undesirable name seems headstrong and foolishly iconoclastic. Not only that but their implementation of the new name is just inelegant. Which further lends credence to the idea that Microsoft cannot name products Skype for Business Microsoft Windows App Xbox One (and Xbox Series…)
- rchaud 10mo agoName recognition only matters if there are competitors. Office is profitable because it is sold in bulk licenses to companies who don't care what it's called. They aren't going to switch to Google Office or Facebook Office because of a name change, not least because migrating comms, cloud storage away from Outlook, Teams and OneDrive/Sharepoint is unthinkable. As for consumers, those who don't want to pay a subscription for Office (they make the one-time purchase very hard to find) are probably already on Google Docs.
- tim333 10mo agoI'm still happily on Office 2019. No plans to get involved in 365, copilot etc. This may confuse their customers I guess?
- andrewstuart 10mo agoBallmer would turn in his grave except he’s alive and well.
- follower 10mo ago"The Office Formerly Known as 365"
- devinprater 10mo agoNo way. There's just no way.
- nottorp 10mo agoIt's April 1 right?
- thedudeabides5 10mo agough
- worldsavior 10mo agoI think this belongs in another dimension where today is April fools day.
- rilindo 10mo agoRelated, somewhat, but I am moving away from Microsoft Office and to Apple's Pages/Numbers/Keynote/FreeForm, mostly because they are free and they are good enough.
- LeoPanthera 10mo agoThey’re technically not “free”, they’re just bundled with new Macs. It’s a subtle distinction but if you have an old Mac you still have to pay for them.
- alex1138 10mo agoGood news: Libreoffice is still called Libreoffice
- ChrisArchitect 10mo agoNews from almost a year ago now. Some discussion last January: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42751726 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42751726 And the bigger discussion shortly after, setting a tone somewhat for the rest of the year: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42831281 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42831281
- misnome 10mo agoI think this is a different, new rename? It was renamed last year, but I don't recall seeing office in it's entirety being called "The Copilot App"?
- ChrisArchitect 10mo agoNope, that was the change last January (to the web text and elsewhere in the apps, causing confusion etc etc.)
- fuckinpuppers 10mo agoMicrosoft keeps messing up branding so bad over and over and over.
- nunez 10mo agoWow; they've officially lost the f**ing plot. 2026 is gonna be wild; I can already tell.
- samgranieri 10mo agoThis rebrand will be liked less than when Gap, Cracker Barrel and Jaguar introduced new logos. At this rate I wouldn’t put it past MSFT to rename the company and all products Copilot. Just Copilot.
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- timbit42 10mo agoFacebook renaming itself to Meta Platforms wasn't any better.
- tessierashpool9 10mo agoI don't even know what to say anymore ... is their kool aid tainted with lead or something?
- josefritzishere 10mo agoThat is so clunky. What the heck are they thinking?
- Molitor5901 10mo agoOstensibly Microsoft has a goal, and they realize that the public is adamantly opposed to the way they are going about that goal. So the calculus for Microsoft management must be either: 1) We are right, doubters be damned; 2) This will be profitable and people will go along with it whether they want to or not, we're Microsoft, what are they going to do, use Pages?; or a total uncertainty as to the future but really hoping this path pays off for a variety of reasons. I hate the future of Microsoft. I hate the future, and current iterations of Outlook and Word. I hate AI. I don't want CoPilot. What I WANT is competition in this space so Microsoft has to actually care what the consumer think.
- x0x0 10mo agoMicrosoft may actually manage the near-impossible feat of pissing off so many people they break their monopoly.
- r0ckarong 10mo agoSomeone please remove the self-serve paint thinner fountain from their cafeteria. It's beyond ridiculous.
- nkotov 10mo agoWho is responsible at the end of the day for these renames? Marketing or someone higher?
- kstrauser 10mo agoJobs was right about Microsoft having no taste. In a saner organization, the person proposing this would have been dismissed for poor judgment.
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- rich_sasha 10mo agoI'm not anti LLM, but the stock MS Copilot is just so hilariously bad. We have it at work, and based on my expectations of ChatGPT and Claude I thought it'd be able to do the following: - fix formatting in a Word table (make fonts consistent, fix background colours according to a pattern) - do better with email search than picking random words in my answer, then using the independently-broken Outlook search and give up - when looking for internal webpages it can absolutely access it went to a web search, found nothing (surprise) and gave back some generic nonsense how I can ask colleagues instead It is so, so, SO bad. And if Office is going more down this way, MS is pissing away its lockin - as these things are just unusable.
- sa-code 10mo agoIn comparison, "Google Docs" is simpler and not rage inducing. 365 is a terrible name. Could you explain to your grandma what a 365 is? Likely not, and I’m not looking forward to that conversation. This is disappointing stuff
- tavavex 10mo ago> Could you explain to your grandma what a 365 is? Microsoft Office - Okay, this is a bundle of software relating to office work, released by Microsoft. Makes sense! Microsoft Office 365 - This is also office software by Microsoft, but the 365 indicates it's a subscription service, because you're paying for it 365 days a year or something. This is contrasted to normal non-365 Office. Microsoft 365 - So... This is something by Microsoft, that is also a subscription service? Okay... Microsoft 365 Copilot - Oh! Copilot! Everyone knows Copilot, right? It's like, their one and only remaining important trademark, everyone has got to know what it means with no further explanation. So, it just makes sense, this is a Microsoft subscription service where you pay for this "Copilot", right?
- moralestapia 10mo agoBecause it will make you turn 365 degrees and walk away.
- COMMENT___ 10mo agoSo how do I call Word now? Microsoft Copilot app Word?
- pkphilip 10mo agoMicrosoft 365 Copilot Prompt
- zulban 10mo agoAs a fan of Linux and open source, I rejoice when Microsoft trashes its brands pointlessly so middle managers can get promoted.
- sph 10mo agoThe good thing about enshittification is seeing brands just self-destruct out of sheer incompetence.
- zulban 10mo agoI don't think it's necessarily incompetence. If a middle manager succeeds in rebranding something they get to put that project on their resume. Their goal just isn't the long term good of Microsoft.
- Semaphor 10mo agoWho'd have thought that entity framework naming would eventually seem like one of Microsoft's least bad naming decisions? https://blog.oneunicorn.com/2020/03/26/numbersarehard/ https://blog.oneunicorn.com/2020/03/26/numbersarehard/
- baxuz 10mo agoMicroslop
- shafmanzur 10mo agoMicroslop
- tracker1 10mo agoThis is now worse than the "Microsoft.Net" effort to use ".Net" with everything in Microsoft as a brand term (not just the dev tooling)... it's effectively become meaningless.
- KoolKat23 10mo agoIt's just insane. To throw away an iconic name like "Microsoft Office" boggles the mind. That brand must've been worth a fortune. Strategically it also emboldens competitors, "they're all random products anyway, never heard of any of them, may as well try this or that".
- resumenext 10mo agoSatya Nadella is the Steve Jobs of our time. This is what true innovation looks like.
- zazazx 10mo agoCool! One more app icon to delete across my platforms.
- lr0 10mo agoI wrote a very relevant post here couple of months ago about Microsoft's approach of (re)branding https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44930297 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44930297
- oaiey 10mo agoWhile I agree with WTH on branding and everything, I never understood the "Office App". Excel, Powerpoint, Word .... all fine. OneDrive/Sharepoint ... absolutely. But the Office App was for me always just the app for the total noobs who do not remember how Word was called. Why would I click office app, then open a word template there. It always found pointless. Under that spirit ... this may even make sense to rename it to Copilot app whatever.
- gloosx 10mo agoWould be funny if they renamed Windows to Copilots
- TiredOfLife 10mo agoThis is not the first case of at least a year old news being reported as something new.
- dramm 10mo agoI missed that Microsoft had been acquired by The Onion.
- ongytenes 10mo agoI guess Micro$oft has so much invested into their AI that they're trying to insure a return on that investment by pushing it onto everyone. I read this morning that their AI i to provide free heating for 6,000 nearby homes with its heat waste. So to use M$ AI is to do 'your good deed' and subsidize someone's heating.
- sorokod 10mo agoThe drowning will instinctively try to surface for air. They will drown you to achieve that.
- jjkaczor 10mo agoHahahahahahaha... "Back-in-the-day" we used to joke internally that Office (it's specific applications) would become things like; "SharePoint Documents", "SharePoint Spreadsheets", "SharePoint Presentations" - because when that was the "all-new-hotness", Microsoft was always trying to stuff the name into EVERYTHING...
- daviesgeek 10mo agoA coworker told me about this today and I genuinely thought he was just messing around, but nope, this is real I guess. Copilot is SUCH an overloaded term, I have no idea even what it refers to anymore.
- epistasis 10mo agoThis is one of the most atrocious branding and product mistakes I have ever witnessed. > The Microsoft 365 Copilot app continues to serve as your everyday productivity app for work and life. The productivity hit has been extremely negative for me. If I want to create a new spreadsheet, I have no idea where to go now. After opening the Okta tile, I'm presented with a chat box, and some nondescript tiles on the left. If I ask the chat box to create a new document, I'm suddenly engaged with a slow-to-respond bot conversation describing what I want to do. I want a blank spreadsheet. It gives me a DOCUMENT TO DOWNLOAD rather than a document inside OneDrive. My goodness. OK, so how do I find the prior interface? It's hidden behind "Apps". Getting a blank spreadsheet is hard enough, getting an actual slide deck from a template, that's impossible in the interface. And the bugs! SOOOOOO many bugs in the web interface. I've finally given in and am using the desktop apps. If I need to use a template, I copy an old document manually. It's pretty clear that Microsoft didn't even dogfood this, and that there was no iterative design cycle. Just a first-draft UI that get shoved out the door, and replaced decades of good-will about Office. Maybe "good will" is too strong, let me say not-ill-will.
- ChrisArchitect 10mo agoThis is not 2026 news. Whatever's being spread around on social media today is late rage bait. Change occurred a year ago OP. And there was plenty of discussion and reporting.
- anoojb 10mo agoA dozen or more people are going to get promoted for the "impact" associated with this project. > "Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome" > -Charlie Munger
- eientei95 10mo ago> Copilot in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app is available for Microsoft 365 Enterprise, Academic, and SMB subscribers with a work or education account. Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers and free accounts can access Copilot at copilot.microsoft.com and on the Copilot mobile app So you don't even have Copilot in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app
- browningstreet 10mo agoWhat happened with Microsoft marketing? The people who really live and die by these changes are the license (renewal) managers, and their legal counterparts, at big orgs. The users can’t keep up. The MS admins at each big org struggle to explain these iterations. My own experience is that I mostly use the features I can find across each iteration and can barely use the newest frontier features exclusive to the latest version. Maybe new generations of those younger professionals entering the workforce see a different slice of things, but in my experience the graybeards still know how to use Microsoft Office better than the fresh entrants. I actually like the Copilot interface in Office and Teams and the new start page. It serves my needs, but it’s a gateway to Office (or OneDrive and Sharepoint), not a replacement for Office (yet). Office and E5 licensing are their moneymakers and they keep messing with it in a way where nobody could reasonably explain what the changes and brand names have been in the last 5 years. They talk about Windows being an interface to agentic desktop computing, so it seems like they’re leaning towards sunsetting both the Windows brand and the Office brands for Copilot, which is a core technology they don’t build or own (in reality, or exclusively).
- yoyohello13 10mo agoIt makes me so angry that Microsoft is simultaneously one of the most profitable and most obnoxiously incompetent companies in the world. They are the definition of failing upwards. Every product is an absolute trash fire yet they persist and thrive.
- techbrovanguard 10mo agomicroslop
- bicepjai 10mo agoAt this pace, they might rename Microsoft to Copilot App :)
- poulpy123 10mo agoAt one point I will believe that Satya Nadella is the anagram of Linus Thorvalds
- lylo 10mo agoAre they going to redirect office.com to microsoft365copilotapp.com while they're at it?
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- jdongsu 10mo agoHow about leap year?
- amluto 10mo agoI think the best part is the second FAQ: > Your favorite apps are still here > You can find your favorite apps—like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more—under the Apps section in the left navigation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot web app. Oh, phew, you can still run Word and Excel. Seriously, though, I think Microsoft has a handful of rather impenetrable moats that keep professional users paying for their software, and the top of the list might be Win32 (i.e. the ability to run old critical Windows software), Word, Excel, and Active Directory [0]. But here's Microsoft burying the Word and Excel lede so far that they literally need a FAQ entry to remind people that you can still buy (rent?) them. [0] It's not like anyone likes Active Directory, but it's critical infrastructure for a whole lot of organizations.
- FrostKiwi 10mo agoNo way, it's BPOS all over again [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Online_Services#Product_Suite:_Business_Productivity_Online_Suite_(BPOS) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Online_Services#Prod...