No, Microsoft didn’t rebrand Workplace to Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft has obtained the web confused, once more. Over the previous couple of days posts on Reddit, Hacker Information, and X have claimed Microsoft has rebranded Microsoft Workplace to Microsoft 365 Copilot. As a lot as Microsoft likes to shove its Copilot branding in every single place, Workplace hasn’t been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app.”

The confusion comes from Microsoft’s personal Office.com area, which for the previous 12 months has acted as a option to push companies and customers to make use of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app. This app is a hub app that gives entry to Copilot, in addition to all of the Workplace apps. Microsoft used to name this app merely Workplace, earlier than the corporate rebranded Workplace to Microsoft 365 in 2022.

When you go to Workplace.com you’ll see an enormous welcome to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, and a notice from Microsoft that will confuse anybody not following the corporate’s complicated branding: “The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (previously Workplace)…”

That point out of “previously Workplace” is Microsoft referring to the very previous Workplace app that launched in 2019 as a option to try to persuade individuals to make use of on-line variations of Phrase, Excel, and PowerPoint. Till a 12 months in the past it was once known as the Microsoft 365 app. Microsoft then introduced it was rebranding its Microsoft 365 app in November 2024 to a Copilot one, which I and everybody else had been very confused at. The brand new app icon and title — Microsoft 365 Copilot — then rolled out on January fifteenth final 12 months to Home windows, iOS, and Android customers.

I’m undecided why the web has solely simply found these adjustments a 12 months later, however the precise suite of Workplace apps continues to be a subscription plan known as Microsoft 365. Nothing has modified with this branding since 2022. Heck, if you wish to be much more confused by Microsoft’s branding selections then you may go forward and buy Microsoft Workplace 2024, a standalone model of the Workplace suite with out all of the cloud options and newest updates you get with a Microsoft 365 subscription.

I requested Microsoft to touch upon the confusion round its Workplace and Microsoft 365 Copilot branding, however the firm refused to offer an on the report assertion.

Now that you just’re up with all of Microsoft’s newest Workplace branding, I’m certain it received’t be lengthy till the corporate rebrands Copilot once more within the most Microsoft approach attainable.