Uuuh... I mean, even putting aside the AI aspect, they are taking one of their most known and trusted brand names and ... changing it into one of their absolute worst.... ? What kind of mental gymnastics is this?

Microslop's naming scheme has always been completely insane, its like their marketing department is a six year old child. You give them the new word you want to show up often, and instead of thinking of natural ways to implement it, they just fucking shove the word everywhere.

"Copilot" is the word now, so "Microsoft 365 Copilot", a sequence of words that mean absolutely nothing, replaces "Microsoft Office" which is one of the most well known and memorable software names ever.

MS 365 Slopilot

Imagine if Office '97 was officially named and sold as 'Clippy' back in the day.

Microslop everyday Slop spew

I think this is dumber than renaming twitter to X.

Renaming twitter to x - at least it was a straight rename.

Office to Copilot? They already had a product named copilot, so now what is the old copilot? Microsoft 365 Copilot Copilot? I just want to use Microsoft 365 Copilot Excel without Microsoft 365 Copilot (formerly Microsoft 365, formerly Microsoft Office) Copilot

Imagine trying to explain what "Copilot" is to your 70 year old grandmother

Interesting, I did the whole rigamarole about a year ago to downgrade to a non-AI version of Office (for a cheaper sub too), I wonder how this will impact that.

I have used FOSS alternatives in the past but seeing how I use Office apps at work it's just what I'm more familiar with. I'd like to move off of it but we are also sharing a family sub with some others.

ETA: Our current one is 365 Family Classic and so far it doesn't say anything is changing. Love how they don't advertise that option to new sign-ups, you literally have to agree to one of the slop tiers and then 'downgrade'.

AI is so great, so wonderful even, that they have to torture us into using it.

What a joke. Their desperation is showing.

Based I hate Microsoft and i am praying for their downfall.

wow just when you think microsoft couldnt possibly do anything dumber

I have a simple excel file I need to add one line to it every day. Despite having already other xls files open, it takes about 20sec to open! File is totally local, I have 32GB and SSD. This is not going to get better isn't it?

Surely that will get people to start using either thing.

I'm going to tell my wife that we can now use open office since word doesn't exist anymore.

How soon before Windows is renamed to the 'Microsoft 365 Copilot OS' and the ability to install and run it locally at all is discontinued, and it's turned exclusively into a cloud-based OS that you have to pay a subscription to access?

Any bets on who wins the rebrand war?

People stop calling it Twitter first or people stop calling it Office first?

Someone called it Microslop Cope-a-lot and I love that.

Crazy how a company like this can't understand that something like the name office is forever associated with people as the office product. Doing this will guarantee less sales due to people having no idea what this is. Confusing the basic person is incredibly easy. I guess their loss.

Introducing the "Microsoft 365 Slop app"

What about schools/universities that ban using AI, they will have to ban using Sloffice 365.

Windows 11 is going to be a live service subscription required product to continue usage.

Edit: this story was apparently blown out of proportion but I still stand behind what I said above

Quick someone post this on tweeter!

I own the World

trump