new version of O365 home page?

Oh no I agree with you. Completely. But we already had three pages of that. So I just gave the best solution i could find, the one I gave my users. In my experience, holding your breath until Microsoft listens is not healthy :-)

I too am furious over these changes. I could not do my work yesterday when it kicked in. My excel is not even loading properly and I cant access my shared files.

I am self-employed, pay for my own subscription. But I also use some clients subscriptions on the same computer that they have paid for as it links in for them.

I recently found that Microsoft Computer I used picked up the most frequently used email, which was a clients and automatically decided it was solely relating to all my work.

I became aware of this when a separate client emailed me back in a reply and it came up on another clients emails. The programmes automatically decided on my computer that this must me my automatic email address. Took me a whole day to sort out.

Sick of Microsoft at the minute.

Microsoft is a disaster at the minute.

The co-piolet is not wanted by me - I don't want it. Its not a game we are using your programmes for working - you should not have just wiped out what we were using without asking if we wanted to move to the co-piolet version.

Please return as it was!

In the last hour, I went on to my computer to use Excel, the computer brought me straight online to use the Co piolet and work online with the excel, which I do not wish to do. I am sick of it.

Worst decision by Microsoft ,
I agree with the other comments. Bring back the Office 365 Portal homepage.

OR

Make an option for the admin/user to chose what is the landing page

this is amazing!

I think what we are all looking for is this:

https://m365.cloud.microsoft/apps

No not really.

For one thing, they've added a bunch of filters there which makes it harder to find things if you don't know what filter MS think it belongs under. E.g. productivity, utilities, education etc. So it takes longer than looking down an alpha list. https://myapplications.microsoft.com/ is a better option if you just need to find an app.

For another, Apps really isn't the issue. Sure, losing the 9 dots is a challenge (and a crazy decision given that it's there for everything else and has been core design language for well over a decade), but the apps button is pretty clear and was there before anyway.

It's things like recent files - the most common reason people go to that home page - being now hidden behind one click on Search, and then behind that click there are more clicks, because:

• they've shortened the recent items list - in order to create three much shorter and therefore less useful lists.  

- Favourites is at the *bottom*, Quick Access is at the top, (without an obvious difference as to what makes one appear in one vs the other), and then inexplicably Shared in the middle. In any case why would your favourites be at the bottom?!!!

So that should've been kept as one big list, with Favourites, Shared, or whatever else just as added filters, if MS are so keen on people using filters.

More crazy decisions:

• Doing all this without allowing folk to set their default side bar "app", crazy. Forcing a chat bot as the default just puts people's back up if they just want to find their damn files. There's not even a signpost to say 'want a full view of all your files and quick access areas? Try OneDrive for the Web!' or something.
• Calling this the M365 Copilot App instead of M365 Copilot home page: also crazy. An app is not a web page, this is just nonsense. 
• Rebranding M365 "M365 Copilot" in the first place. News for you Microsoft NO-ONE is going to call this product platform 'copilot'. Our users all still call it Office for heaven's sake you've only had the M365 brand for less than half a decade! 

We'll all get used to this Niklas. But the point is: 

• the change isn't *better* on first glance 
• we didn't get any option to pause or otherwise control the rollout - in fact we got a few weeks notice for a 4 week time frame it might happen in that got delayed by a month once, so even if we'd noticed the announcement we'd have had time wasted and lack of clarity for users.
• we didn't even get clear comms, it was hidden behind a copilot product update message,

This isn't how you should treat your *free* customers, let alone your business customers. And if this approach is something the MS marketing strategists are convincing the execs is a wise move that will win them plaudits and love form their customer base... then both sets of people want to give their heads a wobble.