Microsoft will be changing their M365 icon to the same as Copilot, but with a little tag

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thefpspower@reddit

Just fire the whole branding team please, so many bad decisions in the last 2 years alone, users are confused as hell already!

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turgidbuffalo@reddit

Wait til they launch Entra ID 360, then Entra ID One.

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chillyhellion@reddit

I remember when my Microsoft Xbox One X arrived in its Microsoft Xbox One X box.

Or when Microsoft thought Service Pack 1, 2, 3 was too complicated, and blessed us with:

Windows 8
Windows 8.1
Windows 8.1 update 1

There are too many project manglers with one hand on the wheel at Microsoft, and at least one of them has a total obsession with the number one.

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The most frustrating part is when they follow a logical integer sequence for one step only to abandon it immediately, just to prove they are perfectly capable of it and choose not to. They just had a sadistic joy in not making anything "Windows 8.2" because they knew everybody on the planet wanted to just stick with the obvious pattern.

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rubmahbelly@reddit

Who ever invented the Azure VM naming conventions: I hat you.

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Trelfar@reddit

In their defense, if they were anything more memorable than the codes they would be rebranded every 18 months so you'd never be able to remember them anyway.

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boomhaeur@reddit

My favourite is how the bing Copilot is just called "Microsoft Copilot". Thanks for making it absolutely impossible to refer to without a bunch of caveats/clarification.

This just continues to build on being the most garbage branding ever, total shit show.

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Alert-Main7778@reddit

The entire company is the marketing team. There's no one left to say that this is a stupid idea, and they're too busy clapping for each other to hear valid criticism. It's all gonna bubble up eventually and they'll realize they've built a kingdom of shit. We need a competitor.

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EvFishie@reddit

I personally know a few guys that currently work there and you're not wrong.. Maybe not all of them. But a lot of them are just up each other's asses all the time. It's basically a cabal of brown nosers

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asmiggs@reddit

Too late they have already been replaced by Co-pilot and an intern feeding them prompts from the board meeting.

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orion3311@reddit

Try 20 years

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overworked-sysadmin@reddit

Sigh.. changing things for the sake of it

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joerice1979@reddit

If Microsoft doesn't change logos or rename products every six months then god kills a kitten.

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Huw3481@reddit

Microsoft Kitten Farm has that covered.

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OgdruJahad@reddit

Sees date. Hmm, not an April fools joke. Oh no, this is real

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rochakgupta@reddit

Joke of a company

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fresh-dork@reddit

one of the daily irritations is telling teams from outlook from some other damn office thing. stop with the low key style and make icons that look different!

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FinsToTheLeftTO@reddit

I’m at Ignite. When they announced this during the keynote the speaker waited for applause. When it didn’t come, he led a round of applause himself.

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MixSaffron@reddit

Should have started booing, lol, this is a stupid ass idea!

Know how many people I work with that open Chrome and have issues following things because they think it's Edge?;

This is a freaking nightmare change.

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-maphias-@reddit

Imagine being that out of touch that you think people would genuinely applaud a logo color scheme.

They should’ve just rebranded copilot back to Clippy.

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Ubera90@reddit

...please clap.

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mmoe54@reddit

I wonder why they didnt have prerecorded audience applause on speakers.

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FinsToTheLeftTO@reddit

You left copilot out. Can’t name a product without copilot.

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wrosecrans@reddit

"Copilot Dot Net."

I might be a little behind the times on my buzzwords, but I think I fixed it.

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Open-Masterpiece209@reddit

CopilotOS incoming

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chillyhellion@reddit

Throw a "One" on the and and we're in business!

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brothertax@reddit

please cl

that's seriously what it felt like https://www.youtube.com/live/wb_uWHFJBnA?si=H98SV1vjWnL023wk&t=6072

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McGarnacIe@reddit

Jesus that is awful

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elephantLYFE-games@reddit

Jeb Bush Guacamole

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hngfff@reddit

Me too. It was hilarious

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itmik@reddit

don't you guys have phones?!

I can't wait to watch that video.

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FinsToTheLeftTO@reddit

It should be online at ignite.microsoft.com. Watch the keynote with Satya and then fast forward until the last 30. Inures.

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TheOne_living@reddit

coudnt find that moment

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FinsToTheLeftTO@reddit

I think someone posted the YouTube link with the time set below.

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Dorest0rm@reddit

He's referring to a 2018 Blizzard conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGByCvWDINA

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FinsToTheLeftTO@reddit

Sorry, I’m old

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elephantLYFE-games@reddit

2018 was only yesterday!!!

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itmik@reddit

you were both right!

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secret_configuration@reddit

Please clap...

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steak1986@reddit

This happened multiple times i was laughing my ass off.

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FinsToTheLeftTO@reddit

He wasn’t a good speaker and the room was half empty by that point.

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According_Ice6515@reddit

Yeah it was a bit awkward . Usually they plants employees in the crowd to clap loudly to cause the herd effect

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the_cumbermuncher@reddit

Is applauding normal at the US Ignite? I’ve been to the one in Zürich several times and never witnessed people clapping at an announcement? Only when the speaker has finished talking.

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FinsToTheLeftTO@reddit

For Satya for sure.

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wivaca@reddit

Some insight into Microsoft's budget pie chart:

Engineering
Innovation/R&D: 10%
Marketing
Rebranding Existing Product with New Name/Logo: 70%
Legal
Licensing Changes: 20%

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G8racingfool@reddit

Don't forget, somewhere in there is a price increase being sold as a good thing.

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wivaca@reddit

Good news! We dropped the price to one-third.. The bad news is we're charging per core, minimum 4.

So the new reduced price is 4/3rd of what it used to be.

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Twilko@reddit

Support/Learn pages should link to how to do something in one admin center, but when loading the page you get a message that that admin center is now deprecated and get forwarded to another admin center, which is now also deprecated, so you get forwarded to another admin center, etc.

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esisenore@reddit

So basically do the polar opposite of what 95% of users want .

Thanks ms

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gskv@reddit

Way to confuse more people

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DatManAaron1993@reddit

Why the fuck are these kinda decisions being made?

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Worried-Bandicoot-13@reddit

They invested a fuckton of money into chatgpt and need copilot to recoup some of that investment.

I have copilot, it's trash. I was HYPED as fuck to get it. I annoyed my managers for months. I tried to use it like 4-5 times and it gave me random errors.

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G305_Enjoyer@reddit

I will help you boomers understand this. Here's the timeline,

Microsoft includes o365 app on all windows installs. No one knows what it's supposed to be for besides a gui for OneDrive.

Microsoft integrates copilot on all windows installs. It's fine for business, if you are signed into office with a business license - copilot is protected by data protection policy for office

Microsoft removes copilot integration and makes it an appx from Microsoft store. They separate the business and consumer URLs for copilot (a good move) The new app directs only to consumer url unless you have a copilot add on license (how convenient). At this point copilot is now a huge liability to all workstations as previous user workflows now have them entering data into unprotected and not signed in copilot!!

Copilot for business (this is what I call it in my org) moves to the previously almost useless o365 app!!

You are here

Microsoft announces decision to rebrand useless 365 app into copilot 365 since that's now the only reason anyone would ever open it normally.

I uninstalled the apps from all machines, blocked the consumer copilot URLs, and deployed an edge app that directs to the biz url. I added a little user guy to the icon and called it copilot for business because I didn't want to direct users to the o365 app with a different icon. You can see now why Microsoft did this. I do agree though with your boomer yelling that they could have gone about this differently. If every app they made wasn't actually just a PWA they probably could have made the copilot appx direct to the correct URL based on who was signed in.

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Pindleskin8@reddit

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secret_configuration@reddit

They are really shoving Copilot in our faces at every opportunity whether we like it or not.

I love how they moved Copilot to the top of the admin center now lol

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GremlinNZ@reddit

It's now the first line of text in a blank Word doc.

Want to disable that? Hahahahahahahah

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shadow-watchers@reddit

I'm still not over them changing Azure AD with Entra ID now we get this smh

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biztactix@reddit

They really love screwing us...

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biztactix@reddit

They really love screwing us...

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cisco_bee@reddit

It says "the Microsoft 365 app icon".

I don't think this will be a big deal. 🤞

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ChernobylChild@reddit

Just wait until they decide to shove it in a dozen other places.

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ig88b1@reddit

HAVE YOU TRIED EDGE? ITS THE NEW BROWSER FROM MICROSOFT

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FourtyMichaelMichael@reddit

COOOOOOOOPILOT!!

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Mastagon@reddit

Let's just "simplify" things even more and have all windows programs use the same icon. And why stop there. Use the same name while we're at it.

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FourtyMichaelMichael@reddit

I'm sorry you're having an issue accessing copilot from your copilot, can you submit a ticket into copilot? You can expect an answer from copilot in three to four days. Make sure you check your spam settings in copilot.

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DrugsGames@reddit

what is blue sky? looks like trash

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theknyte@reddit

The replacement for Twitter/X that many people are flocking to.

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FourtyMichaelMichael@reddit

The replacement for Twitter/X that many people are flocking to.

Lol, like Threads?

Bluesky is the latest tech company about to learn what Network Effects are.

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FourtyMichaelMichael@reddit

lol bluesky

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ErikTheEngineer@reddit

This whole AI/Copilot thing is like watching the dotcom bubble or the Dutch tulip mania unfold live. Are people so terrible at writing that AI is considered that revolutionary a tool?

Executives usually aren't as stupid as what I've been seeing lately. Sometimes they're even thinking ahead a few years and can see something the average employee can't. But it's not just Microsoft, who's sinking billions a quarter into building more AI datacenters, it's every single company. Remember the hype around blockchain a few years back, even outside of crypto? This is 1000x crazier with execs begging to let companies light bags of money on fire for them so they can make their products more AI.

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matt95110@reddit

Not only writing, but understanding is an issue as well. I was recently working with a project manager who would upload every single document to ChatGPT so he could get an instant summary of it.

It didn't matter how long the document was, it could be 1 page or 10 pages and he couldn't do his job without getting ChatGPT to help him.

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trethompson@reddit

I'd prefer that over three separate meetings with four teams to repeatedly explain contract services to someone who has had a copy of the contract the entire time.

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Sonic_Is_Real@reddit

"A colleague named max" goes into this. Managers in tech companies fucking love ai. Not because of what it current does, but what they think it will do in the future.

Meanwhile workers and people deal with the shit they push out now

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thortgot@reddit

Yes, there is a massive section of the populace who write significantly worse than even old LLM models.
Is there an AI bubble, naturally. That's how new technologies behave on the corporate side of things.

If they can improve it to the point where it saves the average person 3-5 hours of work a month they functionally have a money printer. I think they're not quite there yet, more like 2ish at the moment.

It's at least a 500 billion dollar per year market for it, entirely additional revenue up for grabs.

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corruptboomerang@reddit

I do feel like MS et al might kill their Ai advantage (and Office / Windows advantages) by actually going at things too hard. Like MS was building (pretty well) on the whole 'business data is safe' aspect, then they go and piss all over it by having EVERYTHING in Office all pumped into their AI by default, without telling people.

That makes people not want to use Copilot... I'm sure Google et al are all doing the same, but they've not tried to position themselves as 'business safe'.

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etzel1200@reddit

How are you working in IT? Have you even used these models? A year or two it’s a naive perspective. Now it’s just ignorant.

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pointlessone@reddit

"AI" is the magic boogieman from the last 80 years of science fiction. People are going to latch onto it nearly instinctively because of what they expect it to mean, instead of what it is.

We're just going to have to ride it out to see what it ends up as: Will we eventually have "the future" promised or will it be another 3D TV

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wrootlt@reddit

I guess i wasn't paying attention as i thought he said this will be the new M365 Copilot icon to emphasize it is integrated with M365.

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reegz@reddit

lol I love it when they go all in on stuff and then after they backtrack you have relics. Hello Xbox one, one note etc.

Co-pilot is such shit, AI has uses but pushing people to use it by giving them a dedicated button is going to give them a shit initial experience they’ll never use it.

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wonderandawe@reddit

Thanks. I hate it.

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_WirthsLaw_@reddit

How about they unfuck their slow ass portal instead of rebranding it.

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Imbecile_Jr@reddit

I'm just sick of the constant changes.

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MSTRMN_@reddit

Dumbass product managers chasing another bonus/promotion by pretending to be productive

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secret_configuration@reddit

Yeah, I imagine there is a whole team that worked on this (all deep in the six figures) to come up with this "enhancement".

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Warm_Aspect_4079@reddit

"This new logo will evoke the synergistic collaboration that modern businesses expect from our brand."

-- Some Marketing VP at Microsoft, probably

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xeuful@reddit

Amazing!

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kremlingrasso@reddit

Promoted!

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mystical-composer@reddit

i didn't know words could make me feel so slimy eughhh...well done

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ScriptMonkey78@reddit

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Unable-Entrance3110@reddit

I am displaying my ignorance for all to see, but where would I find the current "M365 icon"? Is this mostly a mobile thing? Will the individual Office app icons remain the same?

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Chaucer85@reddit

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Microsoft_365_%282022%29.svg

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ScannerBrightly@reddit

I kinda liked this one, too.

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Unable-Entrance3110@reddit

TIL... Thanks!

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frac6969@reddit

I think it’s the Microsoft 365 branding icon. The purple/blue circular one that they introduced two years ago when Office 365 became Microsoft 365.

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-Memnarch-@reddit

I get the feeling Microsoft is on a mental breakdown. There are so many anti consumer decisions in this product era right now (including Windows 11) that it's baffling.

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margaritapracatan@reddit

What on earth are they playing at? Wasn’t the current logo only released just recently?

Microsoft design team are giving off vibes of the scene in the Big Short movies, featuring the bankers around the table and Money Maker song playing.

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