No, Microsoft Office didn't just get renamed to Microsoft 365 Copilot
5 points by abareplace
5 points by abareplace
Well, when I go to office.com I only see this:
The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office) lets you create, share, and collaborate all in one place with your favorite apps now including Copilot.*
So if there is a product still called office, I cannot find it on that website.
A product is a thing you pay for, so if you want to see what the products are you need to go to the page where you can actually buy stuff [1]. At which point you see that there's basically two products:
These products each contain a bunch of... let's call them features... like Word and Excel. "Apps with Microsoft Copilot" is one such feature. Microsoft 365 Personal includes "Apps with Microsoft Copilot" and Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Teams, while Office Home 2024 does not.
Given that "Office Home 2024" is a column in that table and "Apps with Microsoft Copilot" is a row, I have no idea what "The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office)" could possibly mean. Those are different kinds of things.
[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/buy/compare-all-microsoft-365-products?tab=1
Given that "Office Home 2024" is a column in that table and "Apps with Microsoft Copilot" is a row, I have no idea what "The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office)" could possibly mean. Those are different kinds of things.
I can just tell you that I am a regular payer to Microsoft Family 365 which included Office. I went to office.com for the web and desktop apps. All of that is now redirecting me to a new "M365 Copilot" and the word "Office" appears nowhere. I just have copilot and it gives me the option to download either the Copilot app or "Microsoft Apps" which are Word, Excel and everything else that was in office.
It's a shame, because Copilot is such an extraordinarily stupid name that I was really hoping they'd slap it on everything.
Of course they don't want to people to notice that as a company they no longer value competence or excellence or even just good user-centric engineering anymore, so that the best aviation analogy would be having an armed hijacker in the right seat who is just there to have themselves a joyride at your expense.