[barney54]

Wow this is dumb. The reason I’m on Windows is because of Office. For my needs Office on Windows is the best—otherwise I’d be on a Mac or Linux. I use AI everyday and never found a use case for Copilot. So why rebrand Office, their best product after Copilot, their worst product?

[coffeeling]

They're not rebranding Office, the app suite.

They had Office.com, a hub website, and a desktop app called Office that was basically just a wrapper for said hub website. They also had a mobile all-in-one app called Office. As far as I can tell, those are what are being rebranded and made to default to an AI chat view on login, not Office as a whole.

[b112]

Didn't they put Office in the cloud? If so, why is Windows needed?

You could run anything plus Office.

[Maken]

The web version is a complete reimplementation with about as many backward compatibility problems as LibreOffice.