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What's the point? Did someone in marketing just decide that "Active Directory" is too 90s and must be tossed out based on vibes? Entra ID sounds like something completely unrelated.
Actually "Azure Active Directory" was confusing in the first place, since Active Directory already existed for decades, and Azure Active Directory was not-really it's cloud-equivalent
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The worst rebrand yet . We'll probably be reminiscing about the current day once they follow it up with: Word -> Copilot 365 text app Excel -> Copilot 365 spreadsheet app PowerPoint -> Copilot 365 presentation app Outlook -> Copilot 365 mail app Windows -> Copilot system Xbox -> Copilot gaming device
I don't even know why the 365 number is so important. I mean, it probably has something to do with there being 365 days in 3 out of 4 years, but what makes that significant to a word processor or spreadsheet? It's as if Google were to rename their product "Search 60" because there are 60 minutes in an hour. So what? Microsoft's brand names never made a whole lot of sense--they're just continuing the tradition.
And I guess they've just kept it since even though it's not really necessary any more.
I 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.
So they shouldn't focus. AI is so bad that it is useless. Microsoft is trying hard to destroy its user base and, maybe, with the EU pushing for local solutions, they may succeed.
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2026: Copilot chat boxes everywhere, Users typed everything. Peak convenience.
You type the question, Copilot tells you where to click. "Bit higher, higher, no too far, down now, no, below the red line. The other red line. Yes this one... no the one you were just over".
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I seem to remember they spent years trying and failing to migrate it to .net.
Not quite--this predates .net. They acquired Hotmail in 1997, while it was running on Solaris mail servers and Apache on FreeBSD for the web frontend. In a highly publicized move, Microsoft ventured to port it to Exchange and IIS on Windows NT. This went on for years on end, with MS claiming to have finished the transition several times, while getting egg on their face. Eventually, they got it running on Windows 2000…
The legend was that they tried and finally sticked with Freebsd, because Windows was not able to cope with the level of traffic.
> Your favorite apps are still here
> You can find your favorite apps—like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more—under the Apps section in the left navigation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot web app.
Oh, phew, you can still run Word and Excel.
Seriously, though, I think Microsoft has a handful of rather impenetrable moats that keep professional users paying for their software, and the top of the list might be Win32 (i.e. the ability to run old critical Windows software), Word, Excel, and Active Directory [0]. But here's Microsoft burying the Word and Excel lede so far that they literally need a FAQ entry to remind people that you can still buy (rent?) them.
[0] It's not like anyone likes Active Directory, but it's critical infrastructure for a whole lot of organizations.
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IIRC one point Microsoft had a marketing campaign where they associated everything with ".NET" and nobody could explain exactly what ".NET" even was. Here we go with Copilot.
It wasn’t during that exact period, but at some point they even let you create @dot.net e-mail addresses. I nabbed one and was happy for the vanity of it all, but they mysteriously unplugged them maybe two or three years later.