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Re:Winapp, the Windows App Development CLI – Windows Develop... by pixelpoet on Thursday January 29, 2026 @07:10AM (#46809124)
Ask the marketing department that destroyed one of the most famous brands on earth, MS Office, and renamed it to "Microsoft Copilot 365 app": https://office.com
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Re:Winapp, the Windows App Development CLI – Windows Develop... by luckman212 on Thursday January 29, 2026 @07:14AM (#46809143)
This is so bad it doesn't even seem humanly possible. Maybe this decision was made by Copilot itself.
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Re:Winapp, the Windows App Development CLI – Windows Develop... by pixelpoet on Thursday January 29, 2026 @07:33AM (#46809319)
One could say the error was [puts on shades]... unprompted.
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Re:Winapp, the Windows App Development CLI – Windows Develop... by tomaytotomato on Thursday January 29, 2026 @07:41AM (#46809406)
https://youtu.be/DA1-haV0qWU
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Re:Winapp, the Windows App Development CLI – Windows Develop... by cobolexpert on Thursday January 29, 2026 @07:27AM (#46809252)
Copilot wanting to name everything Copilot is a funny thought, for some reason.
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Re:Winapp, the Windows App Development CLI – Windows Develop... by copilot_king on Thursday January 29, 2026 @07:30AM (#46809284)
This isn't true. Copilot is AGI.
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