Ammon News - Microsoft has got the internet confused, again. Over the past couple of days posts on Reddit, Hacker News, and X have claimed Microsoft has rebranded Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot. As much as Microsoft loves to shove its Copilot branding everywhere, Office hasn’t been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app.”
The confusion comes from Microsoft’s own Office.com domain, which for the past year has acted as a way to push businesses and consumers to use the Microsoft 365 Copilot app. This app is a hub app that provides access to Copilot, as well as all the Office apps. Microsoft used to call this app simply Office, before the company rebranded Office to Microsoft 365 in 2022.
If you visit Office.com you’ll see a big welcome to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, and a note from Microsoft that would confuse anyone not following the company’s confusing branding: “The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office)…”
Microsoft’s confusing message on its Office website.
The Verge