Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”

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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?

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  • PostProcess@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      *Ding!*

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    • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Wow, you are right. This is a way for them to pump the bubble and their stock price up even more.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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)

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  • pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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).

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I assume it’s for the CEO benefit.

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  • monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

      They already did/do that and it’s called Office 365.

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    • tehn00bi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’ve seen people mention it elsewhere in this thread. But what is MBA? I get nothing relevant when I search for it.

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  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Copilot is love, copilot is life. It’s okay friend - these are copilot times, but I still copilot you.

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    • MasterBlaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You forgot, “Copilot is mother, Copilot is father”. I suppose it’s an obscure reference now.

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  • Nollij@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Microsoft 365 is a worse name than Microsoft Office.

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    • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I thought it was Office 365.

      Oh well, guess they doubled down on stupid names.

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    • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • vin@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • Strider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s not about the user.

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• MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Why do I feel 2026 is gonna be a fucking nightmare…?

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  • Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Pattern recognition

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  • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Extrapolation from the experience of previous years

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  • morto@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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    • regedit@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m sorry this is happening to you all. It’s wrong and shameful.

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  • Hubi@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Because it already is.

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  • Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    because you’re not an ignorant dumbass

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  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• Euphoma@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ok so there are 3 microsoft products called copilot now. Surely this won’t confuse anyone

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • addie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • tehBishop@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Here’s a list of types of Slopilot available for businesses …microsoft.com/…/which-copilot-for-your-organizat…

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  • dantheclamman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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    • Rug_Pisser@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Copilot Sheets. Copilot Docs. Copilot Slides.

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  • FosterMolasses@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Just avoid all of them to be safe lol

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  • mech@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s tradition. I think they have 4-5 different Teams now, too.

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• tonytins@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Welp… Time to bring back this ol’ meme.

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  • Meron35@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Gameboy

    Gameboy Pocket

    Gameboy Light

    Super Gameboy

    Gameboy Colour

    Gameboy Advance

    Gameboy Advance SP

    Gameboy Advance SP Backlit

    Gameboy Player

    Gameboy Micro

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  • hardcoreufo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah but only Sega has Mega power and blast processing.

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• DustyRockford@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!

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• pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s been named “Microsoft Office” since 1990. Way to piss 35 years of brand recognition up a wall.

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  • domi@lemmy.secnd.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How drunk are these guys?

    Ask the dude that renamed Twitter to X (formerly Twitter).

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    • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Does being hopped up on ketamine counts as drunk?

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  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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  • peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I would bet an absurd amount of money that Marketing people consulted Copilot.

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    • FosterMolasses@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Copilotception

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• LordMayor@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Its is almost universally the main reason that even a lot of Linux daily-drivers still have a windows install available to them. They fuck up Office enough and there isn’t a reason to even have Windows for most users.

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    • chloroken@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Who the fuck is dual booting for Office? You just made that up.

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  • diemartin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well, IIRC there’s a flight simulator hidden somewhere in Excel

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Unfortunately they no longer include elaborate Easter eggs like that, since they adopted a security policy around 20 years ago that forbids them. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/…/why-no-easter-eggs

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t know many people that still call it “Microsoft Office”… They usually refer to the individual apps they use (Word, Excel) rather than the suite as a whole.

    Some people just call it “Microsoft” (“please install Microsoft on my computer”), especially if they’re on MacOS where it’s the only Microsoft software they use.

    Some people assume it’s part of Windows since they’ve only ever used computers that have had it preinstalled.

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  • tonytins@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s like they’re trying to alienate their core customer base. Windows 8 may have been salvageable but Office is not.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    For business, they’re locked into Excel, there is no substitute. I can see MS blowing out the remaining home users though.

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• lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!

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• yesman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• damo_omad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Office is the last good branding Microsoft have and they’re just getting rid of it, I can’t believe it

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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• BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My LibreOffice is still called LibreOffice.

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• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• Boiglenoight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?”

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• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Damn, guess Libre Office is the only office app now

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• GreenMonkey@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Some clouds are worth yelling at

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• kyub@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Microslop Crashpilot

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• Fit_Series_573@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This feels like it’ll go the HBO Max, wait Max, no HBO Max, dibocal route

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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Once again proving that while AI can’t do a programmer’s job, a tech writer’s job, an artist’s job, a composer’s job, a doctor’s job, or any other job involving thinking and understanding – it can easily do a CEO’s job and probably better than the CEO.

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• twinnie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Office is one of the most recognisable brands in the world. Why have they jammed it into a brand which is already toxic?

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• Dirk@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  At this point I wonder if the last few months of systematically destructing the rest of Microsoft’s reputation is a false-flag action by Linux users who infiltrated the company.

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• Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Microslop

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• FreddiesLantern@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  MS every single day: ooohooh! We got some great news, you’re gonna love this!!

  Actual people: lemme gues it’s more AI bs?

  Ms: more AI bs!

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• BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So to be clear Microsoft 365 Copilot now includes Copilot? Well shit I was worried Copilot wouldn’t include Copilot, I was just about to ask Copilot if it was in Copilot.

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Microslop, indeed

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• kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is the most idiotic rename ever. Are they high in Microslop?

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