It reminds me of around 2002 when Microsoft named everything ".net".
Or when IBM renamed everything Websphere.
How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
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Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Git is a distributed source control system. It's open source and you can use it to version source code on your drive and/or a remote git repository. Github is one of the most popular git repository hosts. In addition to source repositories, it has other services like issue tracking and wikis. A while back, Microsoft bought Github. "Github Copilot" is a service you can buy (with limited free sku) from Github that adds…
Sidenote but I don't get why you would want to pay github to run Claude on your code. Yeah github pays Claude but what's the point ?
Tighter (read better) integration with VSCode and Github than what you could get running claude code on the side.
Your question does raise a valid point - Github Copilot's value proposition is fairly limited in my opinion. Not to say worthless but limited and clearly varies depending on how Githubbey your dev workflows are.
Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
#73Someone said - in Linux, everything is a file. In Microsoft, everything is a copilot. Lol.
Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Git is a distributed source control system. It's open source and you can use it to version source code on your drive and/or a remote git repository. Github is one of the most popular git repository hosts. In addition to source repositories, it has other services like issue tracking and wikis. A while back, Microsoft bought Github. "Github Copilot" is a service you can buy (with limited free sku) from Github that adds…
Sidenote but I don't get why you would want to pay github to run Claude on your code. Yeah github pays Claude but what's the point ?
The workflow that GitHub has for prompting agent inside the ide itself is by far and away the nicest and most intuitive I've used.
Claude's integration looked like trash in comparison.
Why would I lock myself into a single vendor when I can have access to all models.
Also the GitHub subscription is a very good price.
Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
#75The real question is how many products could AWS call the same thing
two extremes at play here. A single brand name masquarading as the same product, versus a hundred brand names that don’t tell you a thing about what the product is
Kind of why I’m fond of GCP now. Just name it what it is
Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
#76Copilot is just Microsoft's term for AI. How many products have Copilot? Just about all of them.
It makes sense. And Google is its own way to name all AI products “Gemini”.
Which is unusually simple. I would expect Google to use 10 more marketing names simultaneously without any logic to the product lines.
Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
#77It reminds me of around 2002 when Microsoft named everything ".net".
Then they did the same thing to a lesser degree with "360", including the Xbox.
Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
#78I get that it's annoying, but also don't know what else one would do? "FooPilot is our Office AI toolset, BarWonk is our code assist tool"? There are also a lot of Claudes and GPTs. Naming things is hard.
They could start by not renaming Microsoft Office and laptops as copilot.
Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Git is a distributed source control system. It's open source and you can use it to version source code on your drive and/or a remote git repository. Github is one of the most popular git repository hosts. In addition to source repositories, it has other services like issue tracking and wikis. A while back, Microsoft bought Github. "Github Copilot" is a service you can buy (with limited free sku) from Github that adds…
Sidenote but I don't get why you would want to pay github to run Claude on your code. Yeah github pays Claude but what's the point ?
From a user point of view there's no real reason for it, from an admin point of view if your team is already using Github Enterprise then deploying it is basically hitting a toggle switch, and it has some more fine grained controls about what it can or can't do compared to Claude Code.
Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
#80Someone said - in Linux, everything is a file. In Microsoft, everything is a copilot. Lol.
Microsoft .NET Copilot