Earlier quoted context omitted.
I still put "Max" as the second worst (after "X").
Which max?
That one I think may be the HBO rebrand.
Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”
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#621975: Traf-O-Data renamed Microsoft. Traffic counting ditched. Visionary. 1985: MS-DOS released. Users typed everything. Peak convenience. 1995: Windows 95 launched. Clippy forced assistance. Users thrilled. 2012: Metro interface rolled out. Tiles everywhere. Intuitive design. 2014: Windows Azure renamed Microsoft Azure. “Windows” dropped. Bold move. 2020: Office 365 renamed Microsoft 365. Bing renamed Microsoft Bing…
2011: Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion, rebrands Lync to Skype for Business, an incredible branding manoeuvre. 2012: Skype peer-to-peer nature and end-to-end encryption removed. 2017: Microsoft launches Teams, competes with own product after driving Skype into the ground for 6 years with encroaching advertising, removing features, and abandonment. 2025: Skype shut-down. What was the point? When MS bought Skype,…
Do you remember when they bought the first and largest webmail platform and did nothing with it?
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#63This is getting bizarre, worse than Balmer's Microsoft.
It's a good analogy. Balmer went into the right direction (cloud), but with the wrong execution. Nadella is also going into a sensible direction (ai), but the execution is abysmal. Instead of focusing on properly executing a handful of projects where AI could be leveraged successfully, they went all in on AI everywhere with only a very handful of useful tools.
Unfortunely it has also landed on DevDiv experience, see AI on Windows Terminal, Aspire Dashboard,...
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#65I genuinely thought this was a joke when I saw the headline, and I had to double check the domain name to verify that this wasn't a parody. Apart from being absolutely abysmal marketing, the front page alone is wildly inconsistent: * "Welcome to Microsoft 365 Copilot" * "The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office) [...]" * "Microsoft 365 (formerly Microsoft Office 365) is a subscription service [...]" Which is it…
Microsoft™ 365™ Copilot™ App™ Home™ Business™ Edition™ Premium™
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#66From reading the other comments this happened a while ago, but it’s the first I’ve heard of it.
This is rather annoying and short sighted of Microsoft. If anything this change is emblematic of the rot that exists in Microsoft currently.
Microsoft Office is one of the strongest recognised brands in technology, if you’ve used a windows PC at any point in the last 30 years you will know of Microsoft Office.
Not only that but the brand name is trusted; office and the applications therein are the standard for general purpose business work (as much as I’d prefer Libreoffice etc to gain market share)
Throwing that brand away in favour of an untrusted, unwanted, undesirable name seems headstrong and foolishly iconoclastic. Not only that but their implementation of the new name is just inelegant. Which further lends credence to the idea that Microsoft cannot name products
Skype for Business
Microsoft Windows App
Xbox One (and Xbox Series…)
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#67Ballmer would turn in his grave except he’s alive and well.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Didn't they put Office in the cloud? If so, why is Windows needed? You could run anything plus Office.
The web version is a complete reimplementation with about as many backward compatibility problems as LibreOffice.
Actually LibreOffice has better backward compatibility than MS Office now. If you have a MS Office 2003 file that current MS Office can't open, try LibreOffice.
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#701975: Traf-O-Data renamed Microsoft. Traffic counting ditched. Visionary. 1985: MS-DOS released. Users typed everything. Peak convenience. 1995: Windows 95 launched. Clippy forced assistance. Users thrilled. 2012: Metro interface rolled out. Tiles everywhere. Intuitive design. 2014: Windows Azure renamed Microsoft Azure. “Windows” dropped. Bold move. 2020: Office 365 renamed Microsoft 365. Bing renamed Microsoft Bing…
Missed the renaming of Azure into... ensure? I can't remember the name even though I use it frequently and the azure links still work.
Azure Active Directory => Microsoft Entra ID (Formerly Azure Active Directory)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/identity-a...
And yes, the latter is the complete name as seen on the web page...