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After decades of service, Microsoft is taking steps to afloat sorb the Microsoft Office branding, nether the Microsoft 365 umbrella crossed each platforms.

Word, Excel and PowerPoint ceased to beryllium abstracted apps for iPhone users successful 2020, erstwhile Microsoft brought a single, unified Office app to the iPhone. That was followed by the iPad mentation in 2021 — but for now, the MacOS and Windows versions are inactive called Office.

Starting successful November, the institution is finishing its Microsoft 365 rebrand, to encompass each platforms that the bundle suite runs on.

"Over the past mates years, Microsoft 365 has evolved into our flagship productivity suite," said the institution successful a blog post, "so we are creating an acquisition to assistance you get the astir retired of Microsoft 365."

"In the coming months, Office.com, the Office mobile app, and the Office app for Windows volition go the Microsoft 365 app," continued the announcement, "with a caller icon, a caller look, and adjacent much features."

The caller features see Create, which is being described arsenic a "place to rapidly commencement connected projects crossed respective Microsoft 365 apps," and is yet an extended bid of templates.

There's besides a caller Apps module, which is launching connected Windows and online successful November. It's astir blurring the lines betwixt the antithetic bequest apps specified arsenic Word and Excel, and alternatively lets users "discover, launch, and pin the tools you usage the astir crossed Microsoft 365."

As good arsenic this online functionality alteration successful November, the name, logo and plan changes volition statesman that period astatine office.com. Then the iOS, Android and Windows apps volition beryllium rebranded successful January 2023.

At the aforesaid time, the institution is making the Microsoft Office marque obsolete. New features volition travel to Microsoft 365, but not to the "legacy" Office applications. It's not wide what's going to hap to the standalone applications, nor connected what timetable.