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They literally rebranded Office to The Copilot App. I’m just waiting for them to complete their descent and rename Windows to Copilot Desktop or something.
Honestly given that a large part of their customer base is corporate and uneasy with the changes being made to Windows 11 it wouldn’t surprise me if they did something exactly like that but also kept Windows around to go back to having separate corporate and personal versions.
Uneasy, yes, but also totally locked into the ecosystem and afraid of trying to educate a userbase -that can barely use technology as it is- enough that they can function with completely new tools.
We are talking about a user base that had a panic attack when the Start button stopped saying “Start”. To say nothing of the button moving to the middle of the task bar. The main tools have already agnosticized though. People are already using Google Docs or other collab versions instead of Office. Given that KDE can already look and behave almost exactly like Modern (the current Windows interface unless they changed the name again) I don’t think companies are as locked in as you think. The last place I worked for had upped their Red Hat licensing from server only to site licenses specifically so they could start switching some machines to RHEL.
Maybe they'll end up renaming it to Qapla'.