• DFX4509B@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    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?

  • sidebro@lemmy.zipEnglish
    119·
    4 days ago

    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?

      • Rhaedas@fedia.io
        19·
        4 days ago

        I mean that was far dumber. That’s on par with some other manufacturers who recently ditched their century old logo to go with a boring font. Name brand recognition is a thing, and they have experts in their PR that can tell them that.

      • theparadox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        Literally no reason to worry about branding when Word is synonymous with word processor and Excel is synonymous with spreadsheet. The only real competition is Google Drive, but they are shoving Gemini into everything too so…

      • kadu@scribe.disroot.org
        14·
        4 days ago

        It reminds me when augmented reality was the tech buzzword (lasted only a few months, but it did happen) and you’d go at those tech conferences and absolutely random companies would try shoving AR in their banners, so you’d see stuff like “AR/VR light switch” and as bizarre as that was it meant they got more investor money lol

        • red_tomato@lemmy.world
          6·
          3 days ago

          Or blockchain, internet of things, smart everything, big data, 3D TVs, wearable tech. The cycle never ends.

          The difference with the AI bubble is that it’s at the scale of the dot com bubble now.

          • jrubal1462@mander.xyz
            1·
            2 days ago

            This is actually good news to me. I assumed the AI bubble was WaAY larger than the dot com bubble already.

    • Davel23@fedia.io
      8·
      4 days ago

      I mean, this is the same company that came up with the naming conventions for the Xbox, so it’s about par for the course.

  • kadu@scribe.disroot.org
    45·
    4 days ago

    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.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.world
    31·
    3 days ago

    This kind of shit is how you know for a fact that a c-suite is just running on empty promises and adrenaline at this point.

    The MS Office brand is 30+ years in the making.

  • simonced@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    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?

    • j5906@feddit.org
      9·
      3 days ago

      Libre Office starts in like 1 second and works with about 99% of all standard Excel Sheets (the ones without macros or heavy cross-linking to sharepoint)

  • CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works
    24·
    3 days ago

    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

  • LostWanderer@fedia.io
    28·
    4 days ago

    ROFL Pathetic, Microslop pushing this hard and pathetically to get people generating more slop is so sad. The promises they couldn’t keep are catching up with them, any sane company would’ve given up by now. Sadly, a core group in Microsoft Execs have been prompt injected with AI hope-posting and might never recover. Remember everyone, never talk to computers, not even once!

  • Klanky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    18·
    4 days ago

    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’.