It's those products that likely are getting the rebrand to Microsoft 365. For instance, Microsoft had said it was continuing to use "Office 365" with some products, namely Office 365 for Enterprise, Office 365 for Firstline Workers, Office 365 for Education and Office 365 for Government. There were some odd holdouts back then during that 2020 name change. Microsoft had announced name changes to that effect more than two years ago, where most (but not all) "Office 365" product names were switched to "Microsoft 365." This week's name-change revelations aren't the first time Microsoft intentionally downplayed Office in favor of Microsoft 365. It's actually no surprise that the Office brand is getting downplayed, or maybe will be eliminated at some point. Microsoft has taken measures to make things unpleasant for Office 2021 buyers by shortening the product's support period by three years and threatening buyers with "fear, uncertainty and doubt" that Office 2021 users will still be able to connect with various Microsoft 365 services. The notion that Microsoft is killing off its own Office brand possibly emerged from Microsoft's very real efforts to shift one-time-paying perpetual Office 2021 buyers over to the continuous-pay Office 365 subscription model. Microsoft does sell Office LTSC plans for commercial and government users, which are purchased as "a one-time, 'perpetual' purchase," offering applications such as Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word, as described in this other Microsoft FAQ. We will also continue to offer one-time purchases of those apps to consumers and businesses via Office 2021 and Office LTSC plans.
No, as part of Microsoft 365 you will continue to get access to apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Microsoft answered the question, "Is Office going away entirely?", in the Microsoft App FAQ as follows: Everything else, though, is getting the "Microsoft 365" imprimatur.
The drama of the Office name swap is further tamped down by this Microsoft 365 App FAQ, which explained that its perpetual-license Office products (sometimes called "boxed" products), such as Office 2021 for consumers and small businesses, will still use the Office branding. The page flatly declares that "Office is becoming Microsoft 365." The actual application products (such as Excel, PowerPoint and Word), though, aren't changing with this declaration. It has published this landing page for a new and coming Microsoft 365 App and replacement. The source of Office product name-change news is Microsoft itself.
Name-change sleuths have discovered that Microsoft is axing the Office brand name in favor of "Microsoft 365."Īlso popping up this week during the Microsoft Ignite event is a new "O" logo for Office products, which are now switching to become Microsoft 365 products for the most part.
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