{"id":496612,"date":"2026-01-06T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/496612\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:00:10","slug":"no-microsoft-didnt-rebrand-office-to-microsoft-365-copilot-the-verge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/496612\/","title":{"rendered":"No,\u00a0Microsoft\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0rebrand Office to\u00a0Microsoft\u00a0365 Copilot | The Verge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft has got the internet confused, again. Over the past couple of days posts on Reddit<\/a>, Hacker News<\/a>, and X<\/a> have claimed Microsoft has rebranded Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot. As much as Microsoft loves to shove its Copilot branding everywhere, Office hasn\u2019t been renamed to \u201cMicrosoft 365 Copilot app.\u201d<\/p>\n

The confusion comes from Microsoft\u2019s own Office.com<\/a> 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<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n

If you visit Office.com you\u2019ll see a big welcome to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, and a note from Microsoft that would confuse anyone not following the company\u2019s confusing branding: \u201cThe Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office)\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

That mention of \u201cformerly Office\u201d is Microsoft referring to the very old Office app that launched in 2019<\/a> as a way to try and convince people to use online versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Until a year ago it used to be called the Microsoft 365 app. Microsoft then announced it was rebranding<\/a> its Microsoft 365 app in November 2024 to a Copilot one, which I and everyone else were very confused at. The new app icon and name \u2014 Microsoft 365 Copilot \u2014 then rolled out<\/a> on January 15th last year to Windows, iOS, and Android users.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure why the internet has only just discovered these changes a year later, but the actual suite of Office apps is still a subscription plan called Microsoft 365<\/a>. Nothing has changed with this branding since 2022. Heck, if you want to be even more confused by Microsoft\u2019s branding choices then you can go ahead and purchase Microsoft Office 2024<\/a>, a standalone version of the Office suite without all the cloud features and latest updates you get with a Microsoft 365 subscription.<\/p>\n

I asked Microsoft to comment on the confusion around its Office and Microsoft 365 Copilot branding, but the company refused to provide an on the record statement.<\/p>\n

Now that you\u2019re up with all of Microsoft\u2019s latest Office branding, I\u2019m sure it won\u2019t be long until the company rebrands Copilot again in the most Microsoft way possible<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft has got the internet confused, again. Over the past couple of days posts on Reddit, Hacker News,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":496613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[529,252,1630,242,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-496612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-analysis","9":"tag-microsoft","10":"tag-report","11":"tag-tech","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115848519676541983","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}