Microsoft has publicly revealed its leading Microsoft 365 application, previously named Office, as ‘Microsoft 365 Copilot app’. The shift, which was announced in October 2025 and took effect in January 2026, comprises a fundamental rebranding of the product as well as an AIdriven assistant. During this whole process, the online community’s reaction has been predominantly unfavorable. This situation has highlighted the fact that the company is deeply committed to incorporating Copilot into its most popular productivity software regardless of whether the user likes it or not.
Let it be said that Microsoft has once again taken that route, and the online reaction to it is… distinctly negative. Not in any way that it can be qualified as good. The main program which includes Word, Excel and similar applications? No longer just ‘Office.’ It’s now called the ‘Microsoft 365 Copilot app,’ which is a rather long name to say, isn’t it? It very much has the sound of a proposal that a futuristic corporate robot would make after drinking too many energy drinks. And the gamers, the tech enthusiasts, and even your everyday folks who are just having a hard time doing their work? They are simply not accepting it.
I think it is better if we try to make a thorough analysis of the reactions as they are quite illuminating. The nickname ‘Microslop’ is becoming frequent in the comments and that is never a good sign. A certain user named RevenantingSplines said it directly: “Micro-slop gonna Micro-slop.” Another user, Shrimpy-{🐟}, even suggested that they should just have named it “MicroSlop 365” and honestly? That is the right mood. The general consensus is that this is a typical move from a big tech company – giving branding and obligatory features more importance than, well, the product actually becoming better.
The people have run out of their patience. User GenZ_Mind has just commented “I’m tired boss” with an accompanying gif of a sad puppy, and really? The same applies to everyone else. It seems that with every update, more unwanted features are brought in disguised as improvements. User bacchusplateau has recounted that they have “uninstalled Copilot at least twice,” and added that “they sneak it in through bigger updates and rebranding.” It is like the software is undergoing a change without you being aware of it, and for gamers who just want a stable system to play on, it is a colossal nuisance.
On the contrary, the product has been criticized too. Rick Yang has been very clear with his message: “Hey, Microsoft. Branding is not the reason why your dogshit product is in decay. The product is the very reason. Google excel has better functionality and smarter response than your crappy 90s product.” Ouch! That’s hitting directly. The argument is that the competition is simply giving away better tools, and putting ‘Copilot’ on the package does not solve the main problems.
This has opened up a whole debate on alternatives, which is a fairly bold move for an Office announcement. Many are already pointing out the free alternatives like LibreOffice and OnlyOffice. With the comment ‘OnlyOffice and LibreOffice are free great alternatives, if anyone is interested,’ Bijan is doing his bit. And Critical Fumble remarked that they moved long ago because of “built in censorship on 365.” When a rebranding strategy causes people to actively search for ways to exit your platform, you have probably misread the situation.
The IT admins’ problems are not to be ridiculed either. Retard Mine ⛏️ quipped, “Somebody at Microsoft gets a big paycheck for coming up with a name and making the IT admins’ life miserable.” Just imagine the number of tickets! “Where is the Word?” “Now it is the Copilot app, Susan.” Chaos!
Besides the gaming perspective, there, of course, is the other angle. User vortexdeconquer has seized the moment to make a slightly sarcastic comment, “Doing everything but improving Xbox sales lmao.” It is almost funny because it is true?? Gamers see a Microsoft that is very much concerned with the naming of office apps while the console wars are going on, and they are thinking that they have wrong priorities. At the same time, there are comments literally advising to switch to Linux for gaming, with XVyse saying that Microsoft is “begging you to switch to Linux and relegating them to a partition for gaming.”
It is getting tons of negative feedback. Darkobsidion 🎮 even referred to it as “the most stupidest name I’ve ever heard.” HustlerRelic😎 voiced his worry about “serious confusion in schools and offices.” And Priv8Code even made this request to Microsoft: “stop suffocating us with microslop copilot.”
