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Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by candiddevmike on Monday May 20, 2024 @02:03PM (#40418200)
Is Microsoft Copilot and GitHub Copilot the same thing?
Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by delusional on Monday May 20, 2024 @02:05PM (#40418218)
No. Microsoft aren't even clear with their own copilot branding in the core MS products. In MS-land, anything to do with AI is just labeled Copilot right now.
Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by gmueckl on Monday May 20, 2024 @02:24PM (#40418454)
This is another example of MS branding that is clear as mud. Skype vs. Skype for Business, Visual Studio vs. Visual Studio Code vs. Visual Studio for Mac, OneNote vs. OneNote for Windows 10...

To my knowledge, each one of the products in this list is a completely different beast despite naming similarities.

Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by TonyTrapp on Monday May 20, 2024 @02:34PM (#40418557)
And Surface initially was an interactive table (now called PixelSense) before they reused the name for their tablets. Which made it really difficult to find relevant information on developing software for the old Surface after the tablets were announced!
Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by adastra22 on Monday May 20, 2024 @02:56PM (#40418829)
Oh man, what a fail. I loved the idea of the Surface, and was bummed out when they coopted the name for their PC/tablet line, as I assumed that meant the original product was dropped. I had no idea about PixelSense and I could have been a user.
Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by DaiPlusPlus on Monday May 20, 2024 @03:30PM (#40419244)
Oblig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY

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As an aside, when I was at MSFT in Building 40 in 2013 we had a Surface table in the lobby; it never worked as well as the demo videos made it look: the table-top wasn’t glass but had a rough rubberised protector layer on-top that ruined it, the built-in WPF-based demo apps that we played with were all somewhat janky: you’d get 12-15fps not 60fps, touch drag latency was also abysmal, and most of the demo apps’ rendered scenes didn’t use global lighting, so pinch-rotating two objects in different directions would just look bad.

(Pre-teamroom) campus building lobbies were where once-cool hardware goes to die; another building at the other end of campus (where the Direct3D people were) had a widescreen rear-projection TV running Windows Media Center 2005 until well into 2015 IIRC.

Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by adastra22 on Monday May 20, 2024 @07:43PM (#40422038)
Yeah you’d need 120Hz interaction with durable sapphire glass tops for this to really work. Hate to think what a crazy cost that would be.
Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by RedShift1 on Monday May 20, 2024 @02:12PM (#40418326)
Yesn't, just like Teams and Teams are the same thing.
Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by andyp-kw on Monday May 20, 2024 @02:22PM (#40418425)
Teams, Teams and Skype.
Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by bitwize on Monday May 20, 2024 @02:58PM (#40418869)
Don't forget .NET, which simultaneously referred to an abstract machine runtime, an SOA strategy involving SOAP and XML, rebranded versions of Microsoft services intended to align with this strategy, and even Microsoft's centralized authentication service (called .NET Passport at first). It wasn't until later years that Microsoft associated the brand more or less strictly with the runtime.

Not to pick too much on Microsoft, Sun had previously done the same thing with Java, sticking Java stickers on anything and everything they could get away with. Arguably, it worked: Java was the buzz of the industry in the late nineties and table stakes for greenfield enterprise development in the early 2000s -- unless you were using .NET.

Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by arcanemachiner on Monday May 20, 2024 @03:11PM (#40419031)
Come again?
Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by semi-extrinsic on Monday May 20, 2024 @02:54PM (#40418807)
Nope. They are not even included in the same subscription. At my dayjob we had GitHub Copilot for the developer team for some months before everyone got MS Copilot. I had to spend quite some time explaining to central IT what the difference between these two things are, and do quite some digging into MS documentation to show them that the subscriptions are strictly disjoint.
Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by pwarner on Monday May 20, 2024 @02:23PM (#40418446)
There is also Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Copilot for Sales and I'm sure several more. Copilot is really great branding, and also really confusing
Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by yett on Monday May 20, 2024 @02:06PM (#40418232)
No. It's more like ChatGPT
Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by Handy-Man on Monday May 20, 2024 @02:05PM (#40418225)
Copilot is Microsoft's branding for all things AI for their products.
Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by adastra22 on Monday May 20, 2024 @02:57PM (#40418840)
Except when it is actually Copilot, in which case they call it "Github Copilot."
Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by sensanaty on Monday May 20, 2024 @07:09PM (#40421694)
Brought to you by the company that has the Xbox, the Xbox One, the Xbox One X and the Xbox Series X (or something like that)