Why do I feel 2026 is gonna be a fucking nightmare…?
Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”
Submitted 2 days ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to technology@lemmy.world
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MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Pattern recognition
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Extrapolation from the experience of previous years
morto@piefed.social 2 days ago
As a south american, it’s already being a nightmare. I’ve been enduring a heat index of about 44 to 46, and now the tension from the us invasion in a neighbor country
regedit@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I’m sorry this is happening to you all. It’s wrong and shameful.
Hubi@feddit.org 2 days ago
Because it already is.
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 18 hours ago
On the bright side, this change has been around for 9 months at least because they had already changed it when I was doing IT stuff at my last job and it was impossible to find where to actually download the office suite.
Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I had that feeling just before new year.
These are actually my predictions for 2026 :
- More stupid AI integration into products, because money.
- More stupid geopolitcs and war.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
because you’re not an ignorant dumbass
Euphoma@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Ok so there are 3 microsoft products called copilot now. Surely this won’t confuse anyone
dan@upvote.au 2 days ago
Are you including Github Copilot in that count? Technically that’s a Microsoft product. It’s probably the only Copilot that’s actually useful.
addie@feddit.uk 2 days ago
A controversial take. Every new feature added to Github has made it more unpleasant to use, and a lot of that is down to Copilot, for me. Only way to get rid of it is to wait for Github to go down again, which is the only thing it does reliably at the moment.
tehBishop@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Here’s a list of types of Slopilot available for businesses …microsoft.com/…/which-copilot-for-your-organizat…
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 2 days ago
How the hell else are PMs going to get positive reviews this quarter? Waiting for Excel, Word, Powerpoint and Windows to all be called Copilot
Rug_Pisser@piefed.zip 2 days ago
Copilot Sheets. Copilot Docs. Copilot Slides.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 1 day ago
Just avoid all of them to be safe lol
mech@feddit.org 1 day ago
It’s tradition. I think they have 4-5 different Teams now, too.
tonytins@pawb.social 2 days ago
Meron35@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Gameboy
Gameboy Pocket
Gameboy Light
Super Gameboy
Gameboy Colour
Gameboy Advance
Gameboy Advance SP
Gameboy Advance SP Backlit
Gameboy Player
Gameboy Micro
hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah but only Sega has Mega power and blast processing.
DustyRockford@piefed.social 2 days ago
Microsoft is reporting over 600 MILLION user growth on copilot, basically overnight! Wow, very impressive Mr Nadella. You’ve truly pushed AI adoption forward. Someone get this man a bonus!
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s been named “Microsoft Office” since 1990. Way to piss 35 years of brand recognition up a wall.
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 2 days ago
How drunk are these guys?
Ask the dude that renamed Twitter to X (formerly Twitter).
snooggums@piefed.world 2 days ago
Does being hopped up on ketamine counts as drunk?
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
What’s funny is their attempts to rebrand Office have just fallen completely flat. Kind of reminds me of when Willis Group bought the naming rights to Sears Tower and all the Chicagoan’s were just collectively like, “Yeah, No. We’re still going to call it ‘Sears Tower’.” Hell, nobody that I know of calls it “Willis Tower.” Nobody calls Microsoft Office “Office 365”. Nobody is going to call it “Microsoft 365 Copilot.” This is just a huge waste of effort by a tech firm that has long since run out of ways to be innovative.
xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 days ago
Well on the bright side, maybe in a few years when people search for “office software” they’ll be directed to libreoffice instead of Microsoft
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I would bet an absurd amount of money that Marketing people consulted Copilot.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 1 day ago
Copilotception
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 2 days ago
Damn, our customers don’t use copilot, but we promised to reach 50% usage in 2026…
That’s it… Rename the whole thing to copilot and we achieve our goal!
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
One quick hack to make the shareholders happy with how much money you’ve been putting into a failing project: rename a successful one to the failing project’s name.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Also they can release “Microsoft Office 365 Co-pilot app business plus pro platinum edition, with Azure” for 3x the price and no clear business distinction.
Darkness343@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Platinum is worth less than gold now
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 1 day ago
This but unironically lmfao
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Karjalan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Thank you, I’m saving this
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No problem lol
GreenMonkey@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Some clouds are worth yelling at
best_redditor@leminal.space 19 hours ago
“old man yells at clouds” never gets old
LordMayor@piefed.social 2 days ago
“Let’s take the most recognizable software package name and make it something totally divorced from what the software is supposed to be for.”
There are probably people for whom Microsoft Office is the only desktop software that they use. There are probably many people in procurement that are going to scratch their heads and think twice about signing off on something that sounds like a flight simulator.
This is an opportunity for alternate office suites.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My LibreOffice is still called LibreOffice.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Why couldn’t they just stick with Office… It’s 100% explanatory, short, and to the point.
365 never made sense to me. Is it supposed to represent the year? Like available 24/7 but instead it’s there for you 365 days of the year? And if that’s the case why the fuck would I care? It’s software, of course it’s available to me whenever I want. It’s not a 7/11 hotdog rotisserie.
damo_omad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Office is the last good branding Microsoft have and they’re just getting rid of it, I can’t believe it
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Copileofship
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
C Suite is in a cult.
Tons of Microsoft senior engineers have been resigning over this kinda shit.
Not getting fired or laid off, though that’s happening too… resigning.
Bill Gates himself has expressed significant dissapointment with where the company has gone and is going, thinks AI needs to be optional, its clearly not ready.
… Everyone hates this other than C Suite, who are either psychotically delusional, in an actual AI worshipping cult (you’d be surprised how many tech high ups are in one), or, they simply hate 7s and want us to die, want to be the overlords of whatever is left after they basically destroy modern civilization.
Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 2 days ago
We’re…never going to say any of that. It’s Microsoft 365, or 365 for short. Even that sounds stupid. Office is what people understand, 365 always requires explaining.
MS is so exhausting.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hey there, laptop, looks like you’re going to be a linux machine now.
yesman@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The other day, my mother approached me about Office alternatives. Before she retired, she daily drove Office, but feels like it’s changed so much that learning a new program isn’t any more friction than keeping up with AI bullshit.
polle@feddit.org 22 hours ago
You cannot make this shit up.
termaxima@slrpnk.net 20 hours ago
Don’t confuse it with Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Copilot app ! 😂
Superorbit@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
-sigh- time to start getting accustomed to libre office.
Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Microslop
db2@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Redmond just keeps getting dumber by the day. At least back when the business model was EEE they weren’t stupid, just evil. Now they’re both but even the evil part is nerfed by the stupid part.
TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
They are trying so fucking hard, it’s so sad. Especially when everyone saw that report of them slashing AI related metrics because nobody is fucking using it.
I can’t wait to build my new PC and install Linux. Cannot wait.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Preview of tickets incoming in the next days:
“Do I have Copilot included?” “Is it the same as Copilot in Word?” “Do I need an extra license?”
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Damn, guess Libre Office is the only office app now
melfie@lemy.lol 1 day ago
Don’t really care what they call it, I’m not paying a subscription for software or running anything in the cloud that could just as well run locally. The fact that there are decent open source alternatives means I don’t have to give a shit.
apftwb@lemmy.world 1 day ago
IExcel --> Copilot Calculate (356) App Word --> Copilot 365 Live Notepad Outlook --> Team 365 Share Copilot App PowerPoint --> Visual Copilot App Live Viso --> untouched
myrrh@ttrpg.network 19 hours ago
Fit_Series_573@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This feels like it’ll go the HBO Max, wait Max, no HBO Max, dibocal route
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Why?
Why is every company right now making it impossible to understand what their app does?
I swear to fucking god, I’ve been looking for SAAS products at work to fill a role, they’re all branded as AI and not what the companies actually fucking do.
Office has like a 40 year plus reputation as THE office suite. What the fuck us copilot? That cheap knockoff OpenAI they debuted before it was really?
PostProcess@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Because AI on its own doesn’t actually make a return, but by conflating the AI investment with a genuine productivity tool that’s making money, you can start to hide your poor choices.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 days ago
*Ding!*
slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Wow, you are right. This is a way for them to pump the bubble and their stock price up even more.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 days ago
they are trying hard to peddle it to govt usage since they are likely a guaranteed revenue stream, things like palintir is being peddle hard by thiel to multiple countries.(including israel and defense contracting)
pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s because when so much money/power has pushed so long for people to make decisions based on money and not logic, we’ve now arrived at the point where even “the emperor’s new clothes” type moments can’t rein in the insanity; executives are bonused off this garbage and most employees who do know better–thanks to orgs’ own internal propaganda and structures–have given up caring and just publish the garbage and clock out(as they should).
Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 days ago
I assume it’s for the CEO benefit.
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I think I know why. Microsoft Office was a product. Their new strategy is Services. They want you to lease their services and have vendor lock-in forever. It takes a long time for businesses to migrate.
This has MBA written all over it. The idea that AI can just do whatever the client needs means that you can say your service does it all!
It is a scam.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
They already did/do that and it’s called Office 365.
tehn00bi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s going to fall apart and the industries using the tools are going to adopt a Unix philosophy of dedicated tools that do a specific job well. May take a Butlerian Jihad, but it will happen.
moopet@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I’ve seen people mention it elsewhere in this thread. But what is MBA? I get nothing relevant when I search for it.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Copilot is love, copilot is life. It’s okay friend - these are copilot times, but I still copilot you.
MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You forgot, “Copilot is mother, Copilot is father”. I suppose it’s an obscure reference now.
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
FWIW, Office (or more accurately, everything that was part of Office) was renamed Microsoft 365 years ago, in 2020. That was long before the AI insanity.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 days ago
Microsoft 365 is a worse name than Microsoft Office.
snooggums@piefed.world 2 days ago
I thought it was Office 365.
Oh well, guess they doubled down on stupid names.
Serinus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Shouldn’t it be called Microsoft 250? There are 250 working days in a year. As soon as I’m home I’m using Thunderbird or Libreoffice, certainly not the product formerly known as Microsoft Office.
vin@lemmynsfw.com 2 days ago
They stopped promoting “Office” brand when they saw success with Microsoft 365 and dropped Office 365. This was quite some time ago. Now they have just renamed an “app” called Office which was like a homescreen for Microsoft 365. I doubt anyone really used it and no one on lemmy seems to even recognize it.
moopet@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I didn’t know Microsoft 365 and Office 365 were different things. From the outside, it’s as opaque as Apple’s version names.
Strider@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s not about the user.