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 layer8 » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 10:38 PM UTC

jayknight wrote: post #111

yreg wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Ouch. Maybe "Google wAIve" for collaborative chats.

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

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Post by jeffhwang » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 10:39 PM UTC

thedelanyo wrote: post #73

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

Halo Cortana AI: Copilot for Combat 2026

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

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Post by Traubenfuchs » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 10:39 PM UTC

How many of those are used regularly by more than 0.1% users?

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

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Post by layer8 » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 10:40 PM UTC

thedelanyo wrote: post #73

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

We are still missing "Windows Subsystem for Copilot".

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

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Post by layer8 » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 10:43 PM UTC

hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #140

quag wrote: post #10

It reminds me of around 2002 when Microsoft named everything ".net".

Which was arguably more problematic. Are you referring to a web address or a Microsoft product?

More importantly, you couldn't usefully search for it with the search engines of the time.

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

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Post by didgetmaster » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 10:48 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?

Just what we need...AI agents that will play our games for us!

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

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Post by juliusceasar » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 10:49 PM UTC

anal_reactor wrote: post #129

VladVladikoff wrote: post #120

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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.

Haha, actually funny.

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

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Post by bdangubic » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 10:51 PM UTC

lpcvoid wrote: post #59

bdangubic wrote: post #53

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this is true only on HN. in reality, if you wanted a job where you did not use microsoft products you’d probably have to get a wrench and start doing plumbing work :)

Nah, especially in technology it's very easy to avoid Microslop. I've done it successfully for many, many years.

possible, sure. easy, I would disagree. starting with government and any government contracting through most enterprises. startups etc perhaps but avoiding msft severely limits your options

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

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Post by tylerchilds » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 10:53 PM UTC

Twirrim wrote: post #109

hamasho wrote: post #68

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

And IBM has "Watson"

And Silly has Silly!

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

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Post by tanseydavid » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 10:56 PM UTC

chrisjj wrote: post #16

TradingPlaces wrote: post #11

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

> Naming things is hard ... for people really bad at it.

"I'm Daryl. These are my 608 other brothers named Daryl"