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So, there are 3 offices now. - Office(1): The office we know: Word, Excel, etc. The current version is "Microsoft Office 2024" with a one-time lifetime licence
by plastic041 9mo ago
So, there are 3 offices now.
- Office(1): The office we know: Word, Excel, etc. The current version is "Microsoft Office 2024" with a one-time lifetime licence.
- Office(2): Similar to Office(1), but with a subscription model. This was renamed "Microsoft 365" in 2022.
- Office(3): 'Hub' app for managing Office (1), similar to Unity Hub. This was renamed the 'Microsoft 365 app' in 2022. This was renamed the 'Microsoft 365 Copilot app' a few days ago.
Too make it more confusing:
- microsoft.com/microsoft-365/get-started-with-office-2024 redirects to Office(1).
- microsoft.com/microsoft-365/microsoft-office redirects to Office(2), stating that "Office is now Microsoft 365".
- office.com redirects to Office(3).
- plastic041 9mo agoTo*. I found couple more things to make it even more confusing: - There is another landing page for Office(3), `m365.cloud.microsoft`. It has completely different design from `office.com`. - "Microsoft Office" menu in the navigation bar goes to Office(2). I can understand why they changed 'Microsoft 365 app'=Office(3) to 'Microsoft 365 Copilot'. It's probably because they refer to the apps (Word, Excel...) in Office(2) as "Microsoft 365 Apps". This probably caused confusion with "Microsoft 365 App".