At one point I will believe that Satya Nadella is the anagram of Linus Thorvalds
Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”
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#262I'll put money on Windows 12 being rebranded to either Windows Copilot or Copilot OS for Windows.
Windows 13 is sure to be another avoided version (like Windows 9 was skipped).
The marketers will want to rename 12 with the argument it has to change before 13 anyways.
Then again Apple are just as annoying, releasing 26 in 2025.
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#265Are they going to redirect office.com to microsoft365copilotapp.com while they're at it?
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#267I 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…
I think it misses a .net in the end. Oh wait, this naming mistake they already made like 25 years ago. Funny how their learnt nothing out of their own mistakes. Today their CEO released a statement that people should focus not on AI but on the uses of AI. So put the AI in the back and focus on the benefits. This is the exact opposite.
At least when it was Office.net it still had the word "Office" in it!
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#2681975: 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
Nah, just Microsoft Copilot. No Os.
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#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
AFAIK it was Nadella who went all-in on cloud. Ballmer was more into now irrelevant stuff like windows phones
Which I still miss, .NET Native, C++/CX, UAP/UWP, were so much better developer experience than Android, oh well.
They were also a good evolution from the Win32 model on desktop, what .NET 1.0 should have been, but Nadella's management completly messed Windows development experience as well.
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