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How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?

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Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?

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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.

Next year they will introduce "hAIngouts" as an AI chat bot.

Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?

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Ignoring the disaster that is their branding/naming. Copilot is _amazing_. Everyone is hyping about Claude, but I'm way more productive with the copilot cli. The copilot cloud agent is great, and copilot code review is great (we also tried the new very expensive claude code review - it was slow and expensive). Forget that it's Microsoft, forget that everything is Copilot and go and give it a shot.

> Copilot is _amazing_.

Do you mean Github Copilot? If not, which Copilot are you recommending? Can you give a link to where it can be purchased or trialed?

I'm genuinely interested in trying out whatever you're recommending; but it highlights the problem, that I literally don't know what you're actually referencing.

Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?

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It makes sense. And Google is its own way to name all AI products “Gemini”.

And IBM has "Watson"

SAP sales reps used HANA for "cloud" in the beginning... Which was bs back then and is today. But while everybody wanted to be in the cloud, SAP sales was scared to not be with the cool kids, when they do not somehow add to the cloud talk

Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?

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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 ?

It's massively cheaper. Copilot charges per request, which with some clever prompting, can lead to huge amounts of work being done at fractions of the cost of Claude Code. Millions of tokens for mere pennies. MS must be taking a huge hit somewhere, because I'm probably getting 10-20x my value out of GH relative to CC.

I am not locked in to Anthropic, either. I can easily switch between GPT and Gemini models based on how I think each would perform in various scenarios. That's a big win. I use a lot of design with Opus, implement with GPT 5.4.

Also, Github Copilot CLI is pretty much at feature parity (for the stuff that matters) with Claude Code. Using both at work and home, I don't think there's much difference in features between the two. Maybe I'm not a super power user, and just a regular dumb user, but GH doesn't seem buggy and everything I think I'd want to do with CC I can do with GH.

Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?

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It 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.

Also Live. Windows Live [whatever], Xbox Live [whatever], Games for Windows - Live, Office Live.

Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?

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Crazy how copilot was a great brand, and might even have been the first mass market LLM product (2022-2023 code autocomplete) but they completely ensloppified it

> Crazy how copilot was a great brand, and might even have been the first mass market LLM product Cortana was a great brand. Clippy is still on the shelf. Copilot could have been a deep brand if they pulled it from their flight simulators. Instead it rings hollow of any meaning.

Right, they had Cortana right there for the built in windows function!

Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?

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Someone said - in Linux, everything is a file. In Microsoft, everything is a copilot. Lol.

Microsoft .NET Copilot

> Microsoft .NET Copilot

Not to be confused with "Microsoft Copilot .NET". :-)

Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?

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Microsoft .NET Copilot

Microsoft Azure .NET Copilot 365

I’ve been wondering lately if the next Xbox will have “copilot” in the name. With an easy to accidentally press dedicated button on the controller that interrupts the game you’re playing to start an AI chat.
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