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Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”

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Post by ChrisArchitect »

misnome wrote: post #117
ChrisArchitect wrote: post #96

News from almost a year ago now. Some discussion last January: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42751726 And the bigger discussion shortly after, setting a tone somewhat for the rest of the year: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42831281

I think this is a different, new rename? It was renamed last year, but I don't recall seeing office in it's entirety being called "The Copilot App"?

Nope, that was the change last January (to the web text and elsewhere in the apps, causing confusion etc etc.)

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Post by timbit42 »

samgranieri wrote: post #103

This rebrand will be liked less than when Gap, Cracker Barrel and Jaguar introduced new logos. At this rate I wouldn’t put it past MSFT to rename the company and all products Copilot. Just Copilot.

Facebook renaming itself to Meta Platforms wasn't any better.

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Post by mminer237 »

1718627440 wrote: post #69
Maken wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Maybe Office 2003, but modern .docx files often don't work right in the web version of Office or in LibreOffice.

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Post by pjmlp »

vips7L wrote: post #109
pjmlp wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunely it has also landed on DevDiv experience, see AI on Windows Terminal, Aspire Dashboard,...

I guess I haven’t updated my terminal in a while. I haven’t seen the forced ai there yet.

Here, https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/github-copilot-in...

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Post by rich_sasha »

I'm not anti LLM, but the stock MS Copilot is just so hilariously bad. We have it at work, and based on my expectations of ChatGPT and Claude I thought it'd be able to do the following:

- fix formatting in a Word table (make fonts consistent, fix background colours according to a pattern)

- do better with email search than picking random words in my answer, then using the independently-broken Outlook search and give up

- when looking for internal webpages it can absolutely access it went to a web search, found nothing (surprise) and gave back some generic nonsense how I can ask colleagues instead

It is so, so, SO bad. And if Office is going more down this way, MS is pissing away its lockin - as these things are just unusable.

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Post by vips7L »

pjmlp wrote: post #126
vips7L wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess I haven’t updated my terminal in a while. I haven’t seen the forced ai there yet.

Here, https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/github-copilot-in...

Sad days. Windows terminal was so good.

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Post by rhabarba »

nunez wrote: post #102
rhabarba wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or Linux, being an American product.

Linux is an international effort?

Trademarked in USA, maintained by US citizens, mostly distributed by US companies who add US software like GNU and systemd.

Re: Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”

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Post by rhabarba »

1718627440 wrote: post #87
rhabarba wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LibreOffice can't properly render ODT files created with OpenOffice-before-Oracle. I highly doubt their DOCX support is any better.

Doubt what you like, but I "rescued" old MS Office documents for my grandfather with that. Also this is a common fear when leaving MS Office, so you can bet they work on that. I never had someone complain over OO-compatibitlity until now, so there is that.

When LibreOffice appeared on the stage, that was actually my first test back then: opening an existing ODT document I had written. It was already displayed incorrectly at the time.
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