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Why?
Why is every company right now making it impossible to understand what their app does?
I swear to fucking god, I’ve been looking for SAAS products at work to fill a role, they’re all branded as AI and not what the companies actually fucking do.
Office has like a 40 year plus reputation as THE office suite. What the fuck us copilot? That cheap knockoff OpenAI they debuted before it was really?
Because AI on its own doesn't actually make a return, but by conflating the AI investment with a genuine productivity tool that's making money, you can start to hide your poor choices.
*Ding!*
Wow, you are right. This is a way for them to pump the bubble and their stock price up even more.
Pre AI: Hey, we have 5 billion subscribers to our office suite!
Start of AI: Hey, we have 5 billion subscribers to our office suite and 3 subscribers to our AI offering (currently in their free testing period, plans already precancelled)
Now: Hey, we have 5 billion subscribers to our AI services (that also features an office suite)
It's because when so much money/power has pushed so long for people to make decisions based on money and not logic, we've now arrived at the point where even "the emperor's new clothes" type moments can't rein in the insanity; executives are bonused off this garbage and most employees who do know better--thanks to orgs' own internal propaganda and structures--have given up caring and just publish the garbage and clock out(as they should).
I assume it’s for the CEO benefit. “Look boss, we’re pushing AI like you wanted”
I think I know why. Microsoft Office was a product. Their new strategy is Services. They want you to lease their services and have vendor lock-in forever. It takes a long time for businesses to migrate.
This has MBA written all over it. The idea that AI can just do whatever the client needs means that you can say your service does it all!
It is a scam.
Why do I feel 2026 is gonna be a fucking nightmare…?
Pattern recognition
As a south american, it's already being a nightmare. I've been enduring a heat index of about 44 to 46ºC, and now the tension from the us invasion in a neighbor country
Ok so there are 3 microsoft products called copilot now. Surely this won't confuse anyone
Are you including Github Copilot in that count? Technically that's a Microsoft product. It's probably the only Copilot that's actually useful.
A controversial take. Every new feature added to Github has made it more unpleasant to use, and a lot of that is down to Copilot, for me. Only way to get rid of it is to wait for Github to go down again, which is the only thing it does reliably at the moment.
Microsoft is reporting over 600 MILLION user growth on copilot, basically overnight! Wow, very impressive Mr Nadella. You've truly pushed AI adoption forward. Someone get this man a bonus!
It's been named "Microsoft Office" since 1990. Way to piss 35 years of brand recognition up a wall.
How drunk are these guys?
How drunk are these guys?
Ask the dude that renamed Twitter to X (formerly Twitter).
“Let’s take the most recognizable software package name and make it something totally divorced from what the software is supposed to be for.”
There are probably people for whom Microsoft Office is the only desktop software that they use. There are probably many people in procurement that are going to scratch their heads and think twice about signing off on something that sounds like a flight simulator.
This is an opportunity for alternate office suites.
Its is almost universally the main reason that even a lot of Linux daily-drivers still have a windows install available to them. They fuck up Office enough and there isn't a reason to even have Windows for most users.
That's why they want you to put all your stuff in their dumb cloud, because its the only reason people would keep using this garbage, because they can hold your work ransom in their shitty ecosystem.
That is the whole business model of tech now. Stealing your shit and selling it back to you. That is it.
Damn, our customers don't use copilot, but we promised to reach 50% usage in 2026...
That's it... Rename the whole thing to copilot and we achieve our goal!
The other day, my mother approached me about Office alternatives. Before she retired, she daily drove Office, but feels like it's changed so much that learning a new program isn't any more friction than keeping up with AI bullshit.
C Suite is in a cult.
Tons of Microsoft senior engineers have been resigning over this kinda shit.
Not getting fired or laid off, though that's happening too... resigning.
Bill Gates himself has expressed significant dissapointment with where the company has gone and is going, thinks AI needs to be optional, its clearly not ready.
... Everyone hates this other than C Suite, who are either psychotically delusional, in an actual AI worshipping cult (you'd be surprised how many tech high ups are in one), or, they simply hate us and want us to die, want to be the overlords of whatever is left after they basically destroy modern civilization.
Peak Business Idiot behavior. They're too fucking stupid and caught up in the hype to notice that everything is on fire and their businesses are failing. The Line may be going up, but the companies are going DOWN.
Office is the last good branding Microsoft have and they're just getting rid of it, I can't believe it
Why couldn't they just stick with Office... It's 100% explanatory, short, and to the point.
365 never made sense to me. Is it supposed to represent the year? Like available 24/7 but instead it's there for you 365 days of the year? And if that's the case why the fuck would I care? It's software, of course it's available to me whenever I want. It's not a 7/11 hotdog rotisserie.
I think it has to do with how often you pay for it. With Office, you just buy it, then you own it. With Office 365, you have to pay for it 365 days a year. You just never stop paying for it.
Redmond just keeps getting dumber by the day. At least back when the business model was EEE they weren't stupid, just evil. Now they're both but even the evil part is nerfed by the stupid part.
We’re…never going to say any of that. It’s Microsoft 365, or 365 for short. Even that sounds stupid. Office is what people understand, 365 always requires explaining.
MS is so exhausting.
This feels like it'll go the HBO Max, wait Max, no HBO Max, dibocal route
Preview of tickets incoming in the next days:
“Do I have Copilot included?” “Is it the same as Copilot in Word?” “Do I need an extra license?” "Where is the Office app?" "Can you install Microsoft Office for me?"
Once again proving that while AI can't do a programmer's job, a tech writer's job, an artist's job, a composer's job, a doctor's job, or any other job involving thinking and understanding -- it can easily do a CEO's job and probably better than the CEO.
Damn, guess Libre Office is the only office app now
lol OnlyOffice is also an office app, so LibreOffice is not the only office.
Microslop Crashpilot
Office is one of the most recognisable brands in the world. Why have they jammed it into a brand which is already toxic?
At this point I wonder if the last few months of systematically destructing the rest of Microsoft’s reputation is a false-flag action by Linux users who infiltrated the company.
Microslop
MS every single day: ooohooh! We got some great news, you’re gonna love this!!
Actual people: lemme gues it’s more AI bs?
Ms: more AI bs!
So to be clear Microsoft 365 Copilot now includes Copilot? Well shit I was worried Copilot wouldn't include Copilot, I was just about to ask Copilot if it was in Copilot.
Microslop, indeed
Last year they announced a price increase to the 365 subscription along with adding copilot features.
It turned out that they had actually kept the non-copilot version at the original price as a hidden "legacy" subscription.
So they were just tricking people into paying for the copilot upgrade.
