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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'?
#302Microsoft has always seemed to be a little chaotic and buggy in everything it did, but it was always dominant and assertive. Recently it seems like they might be about to do the impossible and throw away that market position - their cloud is imploding, they all but gave up on their AI goals, apparently the Windows UI is designed now by employees who use Macs so never use their own dog food, and while I don't believe…
Do you have any numbers to support your claim that Azure is imploding? Or that they gave up on AI goals?
Both Azure and Intelligent Cloud continue to beat expectations in revenue and adoption.
Don't just make stuff up because you don't like the product or company.
Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
#303Someone said - in Linux, everything is a file. In Microsoft, everything is a copilot. Lol.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux is in fact not the origin of the "everything is a file". More properly, "everything is a file" is a Unix concept and Unix's creators deserve credit for the idea. Though Plan9 carries it out much better: Unix networking isn't file-based, Plan9's is. Sorry, I couldn't resist.
did you remember to push your glasses up your nose bridge before writing your comment
Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
#304Someone said - in Linux, everything is a file. In Microsoft, everything is a copilot. Lol.
Halo Cortana AI: Copilot for Combat 2026
At some point there was an "AI" assistant in windows called Cortana. I think it was a lovely little joke and a nod to their fun side. Unique name, easy to remember. Like Apple's Siri.
I'm sad they replaced it with copilot.
Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
#305The thing that really confuses me about this is that it has very real negative consequences. I cannot have a conversation about Copilot! If someone says "I used Copilot to..." or "Copilot is great for..." or "Copilot sucks because..." they haven't communicated any useful information to me, because I have no idea what product they are talking about. And if I ask them (which I always do) they still have trouble describ…
What are being called GitHub Copilot Products seems to confuse products with licensing plan and features. I always think of GitHub Copilot as the product. I can purchase the Business or Enterprise plan. That enables features like Reviews, Chat and so on. IMO this chart (at least for GitHub Copilot) is confusing products, features and licensing. That's not to say it isn't confusing understanding what features are avai…
They wouldnt intentionally prompt mangle the product for their default offering to have a bigger up sales path ?
Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
#306While Microsoft in general is a mess, this article is like saying: what even is “save”? Microsoft has 1286 save products! Save in Word, Save in Paint, Save in Notepad…
Copilot means there’s a button/menu/command in the Microsoft app/site/tool that allows the user to pass whatever text/file/site/context/prompt is on the screen to the Copilot AI backend so it can summarize/transform/expand/explain it, and then have the user wait an inordinate amount of time for a mediocre response.
Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
#307Someone said - in Linux, everything is a file. In Microsoft, everything is a copilot. Lol.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux is in fact not the origin of the "everything is a file". More properly, "everything is a file" is a Unix concept and Unix's creators deserve credit for the idea. Though Plan9 carries it out much better: Unix networking isn't file-based, Plan9's is. Sorry, I couldn't resist.
While UNIX is famous for everything is a file, in reality this concept is only true in Plan 9, in UNIX IPC not everything is a file.
Sorry, I couldn't resist. :)
Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
#308While Microsoft in general is a mess, this article is like saying: what even is “save”? Microsoft has 1286 save products! Save in Word, Save in Paint, Save in Notepad… Copilot means there’s a button/menu/command in the Microsoft app/site/tool that allows the user to pass whatever text/file/site/context/prompt is on the screen to the Copilot AI backend so it can summarize/transform/expand/explain it, and then have the…
I don’t think the comparison is fair. Some of the products presented here are named copilot themselves, or at least for some, copilot + the domain of the base product. It’s not just a functionality like saving.
Which can get even messier in people’s head, since they will usually reference any product they use as to copilote, when they may be talking about different ones sometimes.
For instance, my friends who uses teams or the 365 suit refer to copilot as the integrated AI tool within these softwares. When, as a SWE, where I hear about copilot, it usually refers to the coding assistant/AI code completion/agent tools for me.
Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
#309While Microsoft in general is a mess, this article is like saying: what even is “save”? Microsoft has 1286 save products! Save in Word, Save in Paint, Save in Notepad… Copilot means there’s a button/menu/command in the Microsoft app/site/tool that allows the user to pass whatever text/file/site/context/prompt is on the screen to the Copilot AI backend so it can summarize/transform/expand/explain it, and then have the…
That's a bad analogy you made. Copilot is a Product Platform, Save is a basic software function that even my grandma could explain what it does. You don't have to believe me, test it yourself: Let your grandma explain what save does in Microsoft Word or Excel. Then let her explain what Copilot does in Outlook, VSCode, Bing, Github Copilot, Bing, Sharepoint, Microsoft 365 and so on..
Re: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
#310Earlier quoted context omitted.
A "Windows subsystem" is a specific interface between user-mode applications and the Windows kernel. It's a technical notion that exists in Windows. So there are different Windows subsystems for different types of applications. The naming convention is "Windows subsystem for ". It makes more sense when you read it as "Windows subsystem for [running] Linux [applications]". WSL2 deviates from the native concept of what…
WSL was a traditional subsystem in the Windows NT tradition, it just never worked properly. WSL2 runs real Linux in a virtual machine.
Actually no, that is what many without Windows background think.
WSL 1.0 was based on Drawbridge research project of library OSes, also used to port SQL Server into Linux.