I should state for the record that I think LLMs and other forms of AI have some valid and worthwhile uses, and that *none* of them should be tied to big tech or capitalism.
See things like: - accessibility - some types of research - spell-check and predictive keyboards - spam/scam filtering
Please tell me this is made up. I'm starting to read posts on Microslop, so I'm guessing it is real, but I do have a tiny bit of hope that MICROS~1 didn't do something this stupid...
Ah, who am I kidding, this is Microsoft. In fact the same Microsoft of the free webmail service "Outlook", of the mail client "Outlook" and of the webmail for Exchange "Outlook", and I'm probably forgetting something else they've named "Outlook" too. So naming choices certainly aren't their strong suit.
There seems to be some confusion about whether it's real or not. This site insists that it's a misunderstanding rather than a rebranding of the whole office suite:
Ignore the social media 'experts', Microsoft has not renamed Microsoft 365 to Microsoft 365 Copilot. A year-old name change is only now being used as 'evidence'
I agree: Microsoft is terrible at naming things. Either it uses one name for everything (formerly Explorer, now Copilot) or it can't decide what one product is called for more than ten minutes at a time (Office being an obvious example).
@CppGuy I didn't do a lot of research on this, it did look like there was some change in April 2025, and that that message has been there since then (thank you, Wayback machine!), but I was thinking it could well be that Microsoft has announced they are now, on top of that, renaming the standalone non-subscription software too, in a change that hadn't been reflected in the site yet (I was wondering if Nadella had said something like that).
Either way, their wording *is* quite confusing, but at this point it's the same mess as Outlook. Why do they do naming like this? Is it a selling point if the consumer can't even name what they want to buy? (Perhaps it is, if the intent is to hide the less profitable options...)
In the end, we may have to wait for the next release of the non-subscription suite to know for sure...
(I'm also perhaps skeptical of the part in the office-watch.com article which says some subscriptions only have Copilot if you pay extra, given how much they're pushing GenAI. If this is indeed currently the case, it likely it will change.)
@CppGuy Haha yes. I programmed to their spell checker APIs decades ago, (implementing one) and already then it was true that every next iteration of the docs was worse than the previous. @alice @njsg
Wait... is that... CLIPPY hiding there in plain sight? Is Microsoft finally admitting that copilot is just another useless, annoying, pushy distraction getting in the way?
"You look like you're trying to write something meaningful! Would you like me to replace that with the average of a million strangers shitposting on the Internet?"
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in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •I should state for the record that I think LLMs and other forms of AI have some valid and worthwhile uses, and that *none* of them should be tied to big tech or capitalism.
See things like:
- accessibility
- some types of research
- spell-check and predictive keyboards
- spam/scam filtering
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in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •Please tell me this is made up. I'm starting to read posts on Microslop, so I'm guessing it is real, but I do have a tiny bit of hope that MICROS~1 didn't do something this stupid...
Ah, who am I kidding, this is Microsoft. In fact the same Microsoft of the free webmail service "Outlook", of the mail client "Outlook" and of the webmail for Exchange "Outlook", and I'm probably forgetting something else they've named "Outlook" too. So naming choices certainly aren't their strong suit.
#Microslop
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in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •There seems to be some confusion about whether it's real or not. This site insists that it's a misunderstanding rather than a rebranding of the whole office suite:
office-watch.com/2026/microsof…
@njsg
Microsoft 365 has NOT been renamed “Microsoft 365 Copilot” - Office Watch
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Unknown parent • • •@CppGuy like it even says "formerly Office" in the *first* sentence!
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I agree: Microsoft is terrible at naming things. Either it uses one name for everything (formerly Explorer, now Copilot) or it can't decide what one product is called for more than ten minutes at a time (Office being an obvious example).
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Unknown parent • • •I can believe it. And I've coded to enough of their APIs never to want to code to one of their APIs again.
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in reply to C++ Wage Slave • • •@CppGuy I didn't do a lot of research on this, it did look like there was some change in April 2025, and that that message has been there since then (thank you, Wayback machine!), but I was thinking it could well be that Microsoft has announced they are now, on top of that, renaming the standalone non-subscription software too, in a change that hadn't been reflected in the site yet (I was wondering if Nadella had said something like that).
Either way, their wording *is* quite confusing, but at this point it's the same mess as Outlook. Why do they do naming like this? Is it a selling point if the consumer can't even name what they want to buy? (Perhaps it is, if the intent is to hide the less profitable options...)
In the end, we may have to wait for the next release of the non-subscription suite to know for sure...
(I'm also perhaps skeptical of the part in the office-watch.com article which says some subscriptions only have Copilot if you pay extra, given how much they're pushing GenAI. If this is indeed currently the case, it likely it will change.)
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in reply to C++ Wage Slave • • •Haha yes. I programmed to their spell checker APIs decades ago, (implementing one) and already then it was true that every next iteration of the docs was worse than the previous.
@alice @njsg
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"You look like you're trying to write something meaningful! Would you like me to replace that with the average of a million strangers shitposting on the Internet?"
#Microsoft #AI #LLM #Copilot #Clippy
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