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Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”

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

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Post by mindcrash »

ulrikrasmussen wrote: post #56

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…

They include the "formerly..." to hilariously try to not confuse people (not joking).

They did the same when they rebranded Azure Active Directory and moved it into the Entra family of security products. It's now fully called: Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory)

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

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Post by HugoTea »

comrade1234 wrote: post #57
HugoTea wrote: post #47

Earlier 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.

Conspiracy or not, it being CIA funded is the most plausible explanation for why they'd make such an expensive purchase and do nothing with it.

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

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Post by j-kent »

mindcrash wrote: post #71
ulrikrasmussen wrote: post #56

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…

They include the "formerly..." to hilariously try to not confuse people (not joking). They did the same when they rebranded Azure Active Directory and moved it into the Entra family of security products. It's now fully called: Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory)

I hope every publication uses Microsoft Copilot (formerly Office) for years, like they did for X (formerly Twitter).

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

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Post by poisonborz »

epolanski wrote: post #26
pjmlp wrote: post #17

This is getting bizarre, worse than Balmer's Microsoft.

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.

CEOs mostly just set direction, the workforce remains the same (sans mass-layoffs).

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

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Post by siim_osur »

j-kent wrote: post #73
mindcrash wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They include the "formerly..." to hilariously try to not confuse people (not joking). They did the same when they rebranded Azure Active Directory and moved it into the Entra family of security products. It's now fully called: Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory)

I hope every publication uses Microsoft Copilot (formerly Office) for years, like they did for X (formerly Twitter).

Some of us are likely never going to stop referring to it as twitter.

X, may as well be 3 Xs.

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

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Post by rhabarba »

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.

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