Microsoft Office to be Rebranded As Microsoft 365

Microsoft renamed its Office 365 service to Microsoft 365 in April 2020, in a bid to actualise the service’s utilization as greater than only a work utility. Now, Microsoft will probably be eradicating the remaining Office branding from its Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and different functions, in accordance with the corporate’s FAQs web page. Microsoft’s Office functions are at present accessible to customers at Office.com. However, with Microsoft’s newest announcement, that is set to be switched to Microsoft365.com. As a part of the rebranding, Microsoft can be introducing a six-sided brand changing the present sq. one.

According to the corporate’s FAQs page, the modifications will come to impact beginning subsequent month, whereas the rebranded Office app for Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android will change into efficient in January. Microsoft may even launch a centralised Microsoft 365 app on cell and desktop that may function a single-source hub for data, conferences, information, and paperwork. The centralised utility may even present a feed of related colleagues that the consumer could join with.

However, extension names of the functions reminiscent of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, Clipchamp, Stream, and Designer will stay the identical, confirmed the corporate’s FAQs web page.

Microsoft additionally knowledgeable that there will probably be no modifications made to its “Office 365 subscription plans.” The Office branding will stay on one-time purchases made by customers by means of Office 2021 and Office LTSC that are being supplied on quantity licensing fashions.

“In the coming months, Office.com, the Office mobile app, and the Office app for Windows will become the Microsoft 365 app, with a new icon, a new look, and even more features,” the Microsoft FAQ acknowledged.

The transfer marks the primary main change by way of branding for the productiveness suite of functions supplied by Microsoft in over 30 years of its existence.

The outdated Microsoft Office will now replicate as a legacy model for Microsoft, which signifies that new options introduced will probably be coming to Microsoft 365 and never Microsoft Office, in accordance with a report by The Verge, who first noticed the rebranding.