Microsoft has a long history of making superficial changes for the sake of change. Pay attention to any of their products, and you'll notice that they change the design of UI elements or the UI spacing. They change the colors around. They move menu options. A setting that you used to be able to get to through 2 clicks in the control panel now requires 7 clicks in the "Settings" app. They change the names and labels of things. They rebrand their products.
They add new features in "Preview" and deprecate older features. Sometimes they deprecate a feature even before the replacement feature is available. And then old feature and new feature might work the same way, leaving you to wonder why they made such a big deal about it at all, rather than just making a behind-the-scenes change and leaving the interface the same. Meanwhile they might make a sudden change to some other feature with little warning, leaving you to wonder why they didn't make a bigger deal of it.
They just constantly change every product, almost as if they're doing it as an intentional prank to confuse people. There was something a couple of years ago where they renamed a bunch of Office 365 products/tiers. I don't remember what the change was, but it was something like:
- Office 365 Basic for Business is renamed to Microsoft 365 Apps for business
- Office 365 Standard for Business is renamed to Microsoft 365 Business Basics
- Office 365 Premium for Business is renamed to Microsoft 365 Business Standard
- Some other tier was then renamed to be Microsoft 365 Business Premium
And it was pretty confusing because they just effectively shuffled the names around so that the terms "Standard" and Basic" and "Premium", which had already been in use, were now repurposed to mean a different tier.
My personal theory is that it's a deliberate strategy to trick people into thinking that Microsoft is making substantial improvements and developing new products. Like, "We're releasing a new version of
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