The Microsoft 365 Copilot app rebrand was bad, but there are far worse offenders

Opinion Wait? What? I was just cruising along the information superhighway – yes, I'm old, deal with it – when I spotted a Y Combinator story announcing, "Microsoft Office renamed to 'Microsoft 365 Copilot app'." Excuse me!? I looked closer and found that, sure enough, it certainly looked like Microsoft had renamed Office to the God-awful "Microsoft 365 Copilot."

A deeper dive revealed that while Microsoft had successfully confused people across the internet, Redmond hadn't actually renamed Microsoft 365. Not yet, anyway. I mean, they're slapping the Copilot label on everything else, and they've integrated it into Office, excuse me, Microsoft 365, why not Microsoft 365 Copilot?

What really happened was that Microsoft changed the Microsoft 365 Copilot app product page to read, and I quote, "The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office) lets you create, share, and collaborate all in one place with your favorite apps, now ...