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Re:Microsoft Office renamed to "Microsoft 365 Copilot app" by mindcrash on Monday January 05, 2026 @08:15AM (#46498410)
They include the "formerly..." to hilariously try to not confuse people (not joking).

They did the same when they rebranded Azure Active Directory and moved it into the Entra family of security products. It's now fully called: Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory)

Re:Microsoft Office renamed to "Microsoft 365 Copilot app" by j-kent on Monday January 05, 2026 @08:32AM (#46498545)
I hope every publication uses Microsoft Copilot (formerly Office) for years, like they did for X (formerly Twitter).
Re:Microsoft Office renamed to "Microsoft 365 Copilot app" by siim_osur on Monday January 05, 2026 @09:25AM (#46499080)
Some of us are likely never going to stop referring to it as twitter.

X, may as well be 3 Xs.

Re:Microsoft Office renamed to "Microsoft 365 Copilot app" by tracker1 on Monday January 05, 2026 @01:37PM (#46502766)
I still call it Twitter... I just don't think "X" works nearly as well in conversation.
Re:Microsoft Office renamed to "Microsoft 365 Copilot app" by LorenPechtel on Monday January 05, 2026 @01:49PM (#46502927)
Xitter.

As in the Chinese X. Remember how their leader's name is pronounced.

Re:Microsoft Office renamed to "Microsoft 365 Copilot app" by mbirth on Monday January 05, 2026 @08:05PM (#46507487)
At least in writing you can use [insert double-stroke X here - which HN can’t display] to make it clear that you mean the social media service. (Unless you’re talking to mathematicians.)
Re:Microsoft Office renamed to "Microsoft 365 Copilot app" by greatgib on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:14AM (#46509262)
I still always go on the site using twitter.com domain or search.
Re:Microsoft Office renamed to "Microsoft 365 Copilot app" by butvacuum on Monday January 05, 2026 @01:10PM (#46502403)
rotting corpse, formerly microsoft.
Re:Microsoft Office renamed to "Microsoft 365 Copilot app" by pseudohadamard on Monday January 05, 2026 @11:14PM (#46508653)
"The office suite formerly known as Office".

Did OpenOffice or Kingsoft put them up to this?

Re:Microsoft Office renamed to "Microsoft 365 Copilot app" by BonitaPersona on Monday January 05, 2026 @11:53AM (#46501233)
The Artist Formerly Known as Prince
Re:Microsoft Office renamed to "Microsoft 365 Copilot app" by anildash on Monday January 05, 2026 @02:31PM (#46503540)
Prince changed his name because a corporation had refused to give him control over the work he created, and wouldn't let him release work under the name that he was born with. (Sort of the template for "Taylor's Version" decades later.) And he then used a logo that became the most successful personal logo of all time, not a mishmash of design-by-committee.

So, basically the _opposite_ of an incoherent brand based around training on content that was gathered from creators without consent, being foisted onto employees who didn't ask for it, with an ugly logo that nobody will ever remember.

Re:Microsoft Office renamed to "Microsoft 365 Copilot app" by ahpook on Monday January 05, 2026 @02:45PM (#46503749)
Moral: don't come for Prince or Anil will come for you :)
Re:Microsoft Office renamed to "Microsoft 365 Copilot app" by cratermoon on Monday January 05, 2026 @09:39PM (#46508106)
And Azure Active Directory was formerly known as Active Directory Federation Services, and it was more compliant with SAML 2.0. The update broke some integrations with 3rd party SAML service providers.