Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”
oce@jlai.lu 1 week ago
I feel there’s some marketing conspiracy with the “office” term. It looks like they have been planning to make it disappear because it is uncool for some new marketing genius or it reduces the target markets, I guess. So they first attached a new term, 365, as a transition, and now they dropped the office while keeping the 365 so recent users can still make the link. The AI bubble was maybe just a convenient excuse to advance the plan.
KnitWit@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If true, then it is beyond dumb. When I need to do office related work, ie typing a document or using spreadsheets, the most relevant term would be office. Not a term that is a reference to flying a plane.
Of course I don’t use microsoft for anything, but it is wild to watch that company completely forget what it is that they do.