As a fan of Linux and open source, I rejoice when Microsoft trashes its brands pointlessly so middle managers can get promoted.
Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”
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#142So how do I call Word now? Microsoft Copilot app Word?
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#1431975: 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…
2027: microsoft windows 12 renamed to Microsoft AI OS
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#144Who'd have thought that entity framework naming would eventually seem like one of Microsoft's least bad naming decisions?
Re: Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”
#1451975: 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…
2027: microsoft windows 12 renamed to Microsoft AI OS
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#146Such confusing naming they can't even keep it straight in the announcement. "The Microsoft 365 Copilot app" in the introductory paragraph. Then there's a button "Buy Microsoft 365" The link below is as "Download Microsoft 365 apps for MacOS" And the file you get is: Microsoft_365_and_Office_16~Installer.pkg So is it the "Microsoft 365 Copilot app", or is it just "Microsoft 365" or multiple "Microsoft 365 apps"? Above…
I'm struggling to determine whether it is a singular "app" or multiple apps for various "Microsoft 365" functions, or both.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
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,…
If I remember correctly, they had to buy Skype twice because they didn't get everything g in the first transaction. Also, the purchase was backed by the cia through one of their companies (I don't remember if it was palantir though) to remove the end-to-end encryption.
I think that was ebay. They bought skype but not the p2p tech backing it; fucked the founders on earnouts; the founders refused to reup the contract; ebay was incapable of replacing the tech; and the founders got a bunch of the business back. Presided over by Meg Whitman, who appears to be profoundly incompetent, understanding neither tech nor business.
The contemporary articles are mostly gone, but eg https://archive.is/4tuRg and https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/nov/06/skype-set...
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#148Wow this is dumb. The reason I’m on Windows is because of Office. For my needs Office on Windows is the best—otherwise I’d be on a Mac or Linux. I use AI everyday and never found a use case for Copilot. So why rebrand Office, their best product after Copilot, their worst product?
They're not rebranding Office, the app suite.
They had Office.com, a hub website, and a desktop app called Office that was basically just a wrapper for said hub website. They also had a mobile all-in-one app called Office. As far as I can tell, those are what are being rebranded and made to default to an AI chat view on login, not Office as a whole.
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#149Earlier 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.
Which is now piece by piece becoming the Desktop version by wrapping it in some WebView junk.
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#150Ostensibly Microsoft has a goal, and they realize that the public is adamantly opposed to the way they are going about that goal. So the calculus for Microsoft management must be either: 1) We are right, doubters be damned; 2) This will be profitable and people will go along with it whether they want to or not, we're Microsoft, what are they going to do, use Pages?; or a total uncertainty as to the future but really…
Microsoft may actually manage the near-impossible feat of pissing off so many people they break their monopoly.