Microsoft Workplace to be Rebranded As Microsoft 365

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

Based on the corporate’s FAQs page, the adjustments will come to impact beginning subsequent month, whereas the rebranded Workplace app for Home windows, MacOS, iOS and Android will turn out to be efficient in January. Microsoft may even launch a centralised Microsoft 365 app on cellular and desktop that may function a single-source hub for info, conferences, recordsdata, and paperwork. The centralised software may even present a feed of related colleagues that the person could join with.

Nonetheless, extension names of the functions corresponding to Phrase, Excel, PowerPoint, Groups, Outlook, Clipchamp, Stream, and Designer will stay the identical, confirmed the corporate’s FAQs web page.

Microsoft additionally knowledgeable that there shall be no adjustments made to its “Workplace 365 subscription plans.” The Workplace branding will stay on one-time purchases made by customers by way of Workplace 2021 and Workplace LTSC that are being provided on quantity licensing fashions.

“Within the coming months, Workplace.com, the Workplace cellular app, and the Workplace app for Home windows will turn out to be the Microsoft 365 app, with a brand new icon, a brand new look, and much more options,” the Microsoft FAQ acknowledged.

The transfer marks the primary main change when it comes to branding for the productiveness suite of functions provided by Microsoft in over 30 years of its existence.

The previous Microsoft Workplace will now replicate as a legacy model for Microsoft, which implies that new options introduced shall be coming to Microsoft 365 and never Microsoft Workplace, in line with a report by The Verge, who first noticed the rebranding.