Microsoft 365 Copilot's new app icon is so bad, it’s actually illegible on certain displays

[Windows Central]

Microsoft 365 Copilot's new icon is lazy, and on low-DPI screens is almost impossible to actually read on the Taskbar.

Microsoft 365 Copilot's new app icon is so bad, it’s actually illegible on certain displays : Read more

 

[MullenWP]

What makes it worse is that if you have Office subscription but not Copilot subscription, in which case you can use Copilot app to chat, but not Copilot M365 app (there is message says it's "coming soon"; but based on the link, it's only coming soon for subscription holder if it's family plan).
I would expect at least fallback to free version Copilot chat in such case.

 

[arm]

kinda hard to miss that big stylized C

 

[ShinyProton]

This is beyond "lazy" from a company with this amount of resources.
And it probably went through some levels of approbation...

 

[Cmndr_Bytes]

When I worked in music when we would do stuff in the studio we always had a pair of semi cheap speakers to listen to the tracks on to make sure the sound was good on those as well as the most expensive.
Seems a lesson MS could use.

 

[Paul L]

This time, Microsoft's design interns have gone too far!!

 

[Arun Topez]

The icon is such a stupid and lazy decision. But FYI the article is a bit wrong on the naming:
Microsoft 365 is not rebranded to Microsoft 365 Copilot - only the "Microsoft 365 (Office) App" is.

Microsoft 365 = the suite of productivity apps/services and their subscriptions.
Microsoft 365 Copilot = the productivity web app (which is just the M365 homepage)+ the suite of app-specific Copilots.
Microsoft Copilot = the consumer AI chat agent (but they refer to it as a suite of AI agents, so I guess the overall product family).

But yes it's still overly complicated for no reason, in typical MS fashion.