New look Microsoft 365 app launcher

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What’s changed?

Microsoft are excited to announce that they have updated the Microsoft 365 app launcher for web apps.

What’s the benefit?

Modern look: The new Microsoft 365 app launcher provides quick navigation across the Microsoft 365 web suite—all your familiar apps, in the same order, presented in a new modern design.
Search: App search for quickly finding more apps.
Consistency: The same apps are shown, in the same order, for each user.
Suite-wide: The new app launcher will replace the existing app launcher in most Microsoft 365 web apps, including Microsoft365.com, Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and many more.
New Microsoft 365 app tile: The link to Microsoft365.com is being moved from a dedicated link in the upper right to the first app shown in the app list.
Documents section deprecation: The Documents section showing a short list of recently accessed documents has had very low usage and is being removed from the app launcher.

What does it look like?

Screenshot below demonstrates the previous app launcher on the left and the new look app launcher on the right.

Screenshot of the old and new app launcher

Useful information

Get started with Office for the web in Microsoft 365 – Microsoft Support

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