Microsoft continues to go all in on its AI-led Copilot investments with a rebrand of its flagship productivity license app to Microsoft 365 Copilot.
As of January 2025, the Microsoft 365 app will be rebranded to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app while also receiving a few new additions to its look and functionality.
We are updating the Microsoft 365 app name and icon to Microsoft 365 Copilot in mid-January 2025. In addition, we are evolving the app’s UI to support future AI-first experiences.
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As part of the UI changes mentioned by the Microsoft 365 Message Center moderators, the new M365 Copilot app will host a generically put together Copilot app with the text M365 stamped across a black background and placed in the lower corner of the logo space.
The M365 Copilot team also rearranged the placement of the user profile and settings to the bottom left corner of the apps, as well as eliminating headers and company logos. The back button, My Day and Help sections are being pulled from the homepage of the M365 app.
The search functionality in M365 Copilot gets bumped up to their homepage alongside AI-powered services such as Copilot Chat and Copilot Pages will make their way to the list of M365 apps.
Another branded change M36 customers will need to get adjusted to is their Entra accounts now simply called Copilot Chat.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat (formerly Microsoft Copilot) will continue to offer web-grounded chat with the latest large language models including GPT-4o, features like Pages and file upload, and enterprise data protection at no additional cost for Entra account users. Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat users will be able to discover, create, and use agents, including custom agents that can access shared work data in your tenant. The name changes for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, and the new Microsoft 365 Copilot app icon, will roll out across App stores and the web in mid-January.
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The M365 Copilot team says the changes to the app are intended to streamline the Copilot experience for its commercial customers as it funnels more of its AI services into a single destination for those users. Commercial customers may also notice that Microsoft is changing the ULRs for the web to m365cloud.microsoft.com from the recently changed office.com and microsoft365.com destinations alongside the new m365copilot.com endpoint.
The changes are expected to roll out in phases and as of now, IT admins are off the hook for making manual changes in relation to this new branding effort. However, there will probably be questions from confused employees that IT admins might have to field as the change solidifies over the next year.
