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Microsoft just renamed Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot on Windows for everyone

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Re: Microsoft just renamed Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot on Windows for everyone

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Milions of soldiers are required by their employer to shoot and kill people. That their employer said so doesn't make it moral or ok. Using Windows is always wrong. Using Chrome is always wrong.

I visit hacker news for insightful discussions and this ain’t it chief. The world is much larger than your bubble and sticking your fingers in your ears doesn’t change that.

These aren't serious claims. They're criticising the argument being used. Good job on the reading comprehension.

They are things I do stand for though

Re: Microsoft just renamed Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot on Windows for everyone

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post #43

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As far as I can recall, this has been their branding strategy: 1996: Rename everything to "MSN" including a news TV channel 2000: Rename everything ".NET" even if it's not a programming language 2005: Rename everything that remotely touches the internet to "Live" 2013: Rename everything to "365" 2025: Rename everything to "Copilot" even things that are not just an LLM Also sprinkle "Windows" liberally over everything…

Skype and Lync, surface, windows subsystem for linux, AD to Entra, 10S, "whatever for enterprise", whatever for teams, one, one s, one x, windows phone, windows mobile, windows mobile 8, service pack became anniversary update became creators update. Let's not even get started on things like Visual C++ redistributable runtime framework package for desktop bridge (not making that up).

So there's Lync and Linq? No wonder I was having trouble searching, and I thought I was bad at spelling on top of that...

Re: Microsoft just renamed Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot on Windows for everyone

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post #25

I remember the time when Microsoft was rebranding everything as “.NET”. Lasted for a couple of years and then they moved on to a different hype.

As far as I can recall, this has been their branding strategy: 1996: Rename everything to "MSN" including a news TV channel 2000: Rename everything ".NET" even if it's not a programming language 2005: Rename everything that remotely touches the internet to "Live" 2013: Rename everything to "365" 2025: Rename everything to "Copilot" even things that are not just an LLM Also sprinkle "Windows" liberally over everything…

2013ish also had a "One" naming trend that was short lived: Xbox One SkyDrive->OneDrive

It didn't seem to spread much though...

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