How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by flexagoon » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 10:26 PM UTC

schappim wrote: post #106

Microsoft is not alone in this. Apple does the same thing! There is Siri on iPhone, Mac, Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod, Apple TV, and CarPlay and are all different different incarnation of Siri (with different capabilities). Then there is everything else like the Siri Remote, Siri Suggestions (and all their types: Siri apps suggestions, Maps, keyboard, Share Sheet, etc), Siri Shortcuts, and Siri Knowledge (WolframAlp…

Idk, at least in Apple's case it all refers to a voice assistant and some of the features integrated with it.

If they were like MS, they would add Siri into everything and then call it "Siri Cloud", "Siri Messages", etc (if they were even more like MS, iMessage would be "Siri 365 Communication Suite")

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

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Post by pluc » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 10:26 PM UTC

aleph_minus_one wrote: post #118

Waterluvian wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft .NET Copilot

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

or Microsoft Copilot for .NET Core

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

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Post by Joeri » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 10:26 PM UTC

TradingPlaces wrote: post #11

For a moment it was called Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. Naming things is hard.

The name that still takes the cake is Github Advanced Security for Azure DevOps.

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

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Post by aleph_minus_one » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 10:27 PM UTC

whynotmaybe wrote: post #81

lateforwork wrote: post #14

Copilot is just Microsoft's term for AI. How many products have Copilot? Just about all of them.

Is it in solitaire or minesweeper?

Microsoft should add a new game to Windows to accustom Windows users to Copilot.

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

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Post by anal_reactor » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 10:29 PM UTC

gedy wrote: post #101

Waterluvian wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft .NET Copilot

Microsoft Azure .NET Copilot 365

Microsoft Azure .NET Copilot 365 Series X

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

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Post by fortran77 » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 10:29 PM UTC

chatmasta wrote: post #87

Related: a list of all Microsoft login portals (there are 609 of them). https://msportals.io/

These drive my password manager nuts, especially when there are actually different logins for them. I just put a note in it saying exactly what service it's for.

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

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Post by aleph_minus_one » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 10:30 PM UTC

pluc wrote: post #122

aleph_minus_one wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

or Microsoft Copilot for .NET Core

.NET Core does not exist anymore: it was renamed to .NET with .NET 5.0 (skipping version 4.0):

> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=.NET&oldid=134276...

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

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Post by fortran77 » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 10:30 PM UTC

1a527dd5 wrote: post #85

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.

I don't know if you're kidding, but I agree with you. I use the Copilot CLI in VS Code and Visual Studio and it works better than anything else. I do use Claude models with it....

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

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Post by anal_reactor » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 10:30 PM UTC

VladVladikoff wrote: post #120

gedy wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

A valid use case would be AI pretending to be the second player so that you can pretend you're having friends over while actually you're alone. Schizophrenia-as-a-Service.

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

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Post by maille » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 10:31 PM UTC

gWPVhyxPHqvk wrote: post #114

aucisson_masque wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 can I learn that clever prompting?