Microsoft Slaps a Fresh Coat of AI Paint on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap

Microsoft slaps a fresh coat of AI paint on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap

Microsoft is dusting off the rebrandogun again, and this time it's aimed at the Microsoft 365 Roadmap. The list of hopes and dreams will henceforth be called the AI at Work roadmap. The notification popped up in the Microsoft 365 admin center earlier this week with the words "The AI at Work Roadmap provides a single destination to discover upcoming innovations across Microsoft 365, Copilot, agents, and related AI-powered experiences." Informatio…

I can't believe Microsoft is this desperate to push AI — its latest rebrand reeks of corpo speak

The Microsoft 365 Roadmap is gone. This week, the site was rebranded as the "AI at Work Roadmap." The baffling change raises questions about what's going on at Microsoft and why its leaders think they can label anything as AI.The roadmap lets you track features and updates to a variety of apps and services from Microsoft. Microsoft justifies the name change by highlighting that the roadmap now includes features from Dynamics 365, Power Platform,…

Microsoft's latest AI rebrand beats its own history of terrible rebrands, renaming Microsoft 365 Roadmap to "AI at Work"

If you use Microsoft 365 and want to know what’s coming next, what would you search for on Google/Bing? Microsoft 365 Roadmap, right? Wrong. Microsoft now wants you to search for “AI at Work Roadmap,” as it “centralizes AI innovations” across products like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. I use Microsoft 365 products all the time as part of my job, and I also often visit the Microsoft 365 Roadmap to prepare myself for forthcoming changes, bu…

Microsoft's latest rebrand proves that it just wants to shoehorn AI everywhere

I'm all for AI when it genuinely helps, but Microsoft's latest branding move feels like another case of forcing AI into places where it simply doesn't belong. Read more...