The big tech Microsoft is going through a series of acquisitions, retirements and rebrands between its brands, and its older products are not safe from such a process. In recent months, the company has deactivated several projects considered obsolete or without a future.

Among the most recent abandoned are the late Microsoft Internet Explorer, browser opened in 1995 and the first that many people used, Microsoft Edge Classic, which was a natural evolution of Internet Explorer using proprietary features (instead of being a mere “Chromium based ”) and Skype for Business, which has been replaced by Microsoft Teams. However, unlike these services, the brand that will be retired is one with much more adhesion and much more acceptance by the public.

And which product will be retired? Simply the classic Office suite.

In a series of updates and improvements to the new Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft took the opportunity to declare that it was retiring the “Office” brand, and all services of the same name will be covered by “Microsoft 365”. However, the programs will continue to exist, just changing their name and brand.

The old Microsoft Office 365 apps will continue to work for a while, and the brand will not be completely retired at first, given services like Microsoft Office 2021 will continue to be distributed for their lifetime.