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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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Post by schappim »

flexagoon wrote: post #121
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")

These are all non talky talky: Siri Suggestions, Siri Knowledge (Safari / Spotlight Intelligence), Siri Shortcuts (Automation, not voice), Siri Intelligence (On-device ML features), Siri Widget/Watch face… you get the idea. There was a time when “Siri” was the catch all for Smart/ML.

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Post by layer8 »

flexagoon wrote: post #121
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")

It also refers to various "smart" suggestions that have nothing to do with the voice assistant: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/turn-siri-suggestions...

Nowadays Apple would brand such features as "Apple Intelligence", but since they already existed long before, they are "Siri".

Though I agree that it's not quite as badly ubiquitous as Copilot.

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Post by tonypapousek »

BirAdam wrote: post #40

The only Microsoft products I’ve actively heard people desire within the last 5 years are VSCode and Excel. Microsoft have so severely damaged their brand that they’ve finally shed the image of oddly gray Dell midtowers running XP on Pentium 4.

Not sure they count as “products” in this context, but TypeScript and Playwright are still nice.

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

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Post by ayewo »

yreg wrote: post #76
hamasho wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> Which is unusually simple. I would expect Google to use 10 more marketing names simultaneously without any logic to the product lines.

I think they were lucky this time that they landed a good name after only a few iterations that has since stuck.

Anyone remember Google Bard or LaMDA?

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Post by NeutralCrane »

EvanAnderson wrote: post #50

Microsoft is uniquely unable to name / brand anything sensibly: "Outlook" / "Outlook Web Access" / "Outlook Web App" / "Outlook.com" / "new Outlook for Windows" / "Outlook (classic)" .NET: .NET Framework. ASP.NET. .NET Core. Windows .NET Server. Ugh...) The love of the term "Explorer": "Internet Explorer" / "Windows Explorer" / "File Explorer" / "MSN Explorer" Similarly is the love of "Defender": "Windows Defender" /…

Their Xbox consoles have also uniquely terrible naming:

“Xbox” / “Xbox 360” / “Xbox One” / “Xbox One X” / “Xbox Series S” / “Xbox Series X”

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

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Post by duzer65657 »

yreg wrote: post #82
aucisson_masque wrote: post #67

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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 ?

Most corporations have Microsoft already greenlisted as a vendor. Making it possible to buy something from Anthropic might require tedious paperwork for many of them.

you can also get a service contract via MS quite easily/cheaply, which mightnot help you with hard problems but does solve the easy ones. example: in earlydays we bought OpenAI API directly and via Azure; when we needed account service we got it immediately from MS instead of waitlists from OpenAI.

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Post by iknowstuff »

VladVladikoff wrote: post #120
gedy wrote: post #101

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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.

They have that on windows game bar. Then you press the xbox button there’s a copilot “for games” there
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