cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/44940615
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
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Dumbest branding decision since renaming Twitter to X.
I mean that was far dumber. That's on par with some other manufacturers who recently ditched their century old logo to go with a boring font. Name brand recognition is a thing, and they have experts in their PR that can tell them that.
Literally no reason to worry about branding when Word is synonymous with word processor and Excel is synonymous with spreadsheet. The only real competition is Google Drive, but they are shoving Gemini into everything too so...