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The worst rebrand yet. We'll probably be reminiscing about the current day once they follow it up with: Word -> Copilot 365 text app Excel -> Copilot 365 spre

• skygazer 10mo ago
  It's kinda like Microsoft became a private equity company and bought itself out.
• otabdeveloper4 10mo ago
  > text > spreadsheet > presentation No, it's "docs", "tables" and "slides".
• ryandrake 10mo ago
  I don't even know why the 365 number is so important. I mean, it probably has something to do with there being 365 days in 3 out of 4 years, but what makes that significant to a word processor or spreadsheet? It's as if Google were to rename their product "Search 60" because there are 60 minutes in an hour. So what? Microsoft's brand names never made a whole lot of sense--they're just continuing the tradition.
  • amenhotep 10mo ago
    It's an artifact of the transition away from year-based releases to a subscription. Customers were used to Office 95, Office 98, Office 2003, etc. 365 sort of matches that pattern, so customers aren't excessively disgruntled, while signalling that there's a "release" on every day of the year, it's constantly up to date. And I guess they've just kept it since even though it's not really necessary any more.
• troad 10mo ago
  > Word -> Copilot 365 text app Microsoft Copilot 365 Subsystem For Rich Text