No, Microsoft didn’t rebrand Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft has sewage the net confused, again. Over the past mates of days posts connected Reddit, Hacker News, and X person claimed Microsoft has rebranded Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot. As overmuch arsenic Microsoft loves to shove its Copilot branding everywhere, Office hasn’t been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app.”

The disorder comes from Microsoft’s ain Office.com domain, which for the past twelvemonth has acted arsenic a measurement to push businesses and consumers to usage the Microsoft 365 Copilot app. This app is simply a hub app that provides entree to Copilot, arsenic good arsenic each the Office apps. Microsoft utilized to telephone this app simply Office, earlier the institution rebranded Office to Microsoft 365 successful 2022.

If you sojourn Office.com you’ll spot a large invited to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, and a statement from Microsoft that would confuse anyone not pursuing the company’s confusing branding: “The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office)…”

That mention of “formerly Office” is Microsoft referring to the very aged Office app that launched successful 2019 arsenic a measurement to effort and person group to usage online versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Until a twelvemonth agone it utilized to beryllium called the Microsoft 365 app. Microsoft past announced it was rebranding its Microsoft 365 app successful November 2024 to a Copilot one, which I and everyone other were very confused at. The caller app icon and sanction — Microsoft 365 Copilot — past rolled out connected January 15th past twelvemonth to Windows, iOS, and Android users.

I’m not judge why the net has only conscionable discovered these changes a twelvemonth later, but the existent suite of Office apps is still a subscription scheme called Microsoft 365. Nothing has changed pinch this branding since 2022. Heck, if you want to beryllium moreover much confused by Microsoft’s branding choices past you tin spell up and acquisition Microsoft Office 2024, a standalone type of the Office suite without each the unreality features and latest updates you get pinch a Microsoft 365 subscription.

I asked Microsoft to remark connected the disorder astir its Office and Microsoft 365 Copilot branding, but the institution refused to supply an connected the grounds statement.

Now that you’re up pinch each of Microsoft’s latest Office branding, I’m judge it won’t beryllium agelong until the institution rebrands Copilot again successful the most Microsoft measurement possible.