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 tempaccount5050 » Sun, Apr 05, 2026, 12:07 AM UTC

rhet0rica wrote: post #175

layer8 wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are still missing "Windows Subsystem for Copilot".

Never understood this about Windows Subsystem for Linux naming, nor its predecessor Windows Services for Unix. Surely Linux is the subsystem running on Windows? Should we now reinterpret Windows for Workgroups as a means of astrally projecting your organization inside Windows 3.11?! The dative only works ONE way, Microsoft! I guess they really just didn't want a product name to start with the name of a competitor's p…

It's a Windows subsystem. For running Linux.

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

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Post by BikeRanger » Sun, Apr 05, 2026, 12:07 AM UTC

We just call it Cope. Azure Cope. GitHub Cope. SharePoint Cope. Etc.

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

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Post by wtallis » Sun, Apr 05, 2026, 12:10 AM UTC

rhet0rica wrote: post #175

layer8 wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are still missing "Windows Subsystem for Copilot".

Never understood this about Windows Subsystem for Linux naming, nor its predecessor Windows Services for Unix. Surely Linux is the subsystem running on Windows? Should we now reinterpret Windows for Workgroups as a means of astrally projecting your organization inside Windows 3.11?! The dative only works ONE way, Microsoft! I guess they really just didn't want a product name to start with the name of a competitor's p…

> Surely Linux is the subsystem running on Windows?

Only in version 2. WSL1 didn't run a Linux kernel, just provided binary compatibility to run Linux userspace programs.

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

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Post by starkeeper » Sun, Apr 05, 2026, 12:11 AM UTC

How many windows services or low level system dlls has Microsoft lost the source code for and or does not even know what they actually do?

Copilot does not know either but I'm sure the answer is a much bigger number then anyone would be comfortable with.

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

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Post by tempaccount5050 » Sun, Apr 05, 2026, 12:12 AM UTC

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.

The last company I worked for had copilot pretty well integrated into M365/Sharepoint/Teams. It didn't really help me get more work done but it was pretty clutch at finding information. "What meeting did we discuss such and such for X project?" And it'd get me the meeting with the notes and recording. "Which SharePoint site do the docs for that live in?" Etc. That was about all it was good for though.

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

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Post by claysmithr » Sun, Apr 05, 2026, 12:15 AM UTC

I can't wait for Copilot Copilot for Copilot 365 X Copilot X

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

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Post by ChadNauseam » Sun, Apr 05, 2026, 12:21 AM UTC

rhet0rica wrote: post #175

layer8 wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are still missing "Windows Subsystem for Copilot".

Never understood this about Windows Subsystem for Linux naming, nor its predecessor Windows Services for Unix. Surely Linux is the subsystem running on Windows? Should we now reinterpret Windows for Workgroups as a means of astrally projecting your organization inside Windows 3.11?! The dative only works ONE way, Microsoft! I guess they really just didn't want a product name to start with the name of a competitor's p…

> I guess they really just didn't want a product name to start with the name of a competitor's product.

Probably, but I doubt linux wants it either. People might think it's some official linux product.

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

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Post by spencerflem » Sun, Apr 05, 2026, 12:21 AM UTC

ayewo wrote: post #135

yreg wrote: post #76

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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?

I still like the name Bard

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

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Post by bmenrigh » Sun, Apr 05, 2026, 12:23 AM UTC

Reminds me of around 2002 when MS slapped “.Net” onto everything.

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

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Post by Tiereven » Sun, Apr 05, 2026, 12:31 AM UTC

I guess if Copilot were actually a singular entity that had all of these touch points and a decent security model to prevent unintentionally exposing your data - it would be pretty cool.