What Is Copilot Exactly?

Re:What Is Copilot Exactly? by CactusBlue on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @01:31PM (#47603929)

It feels like the Microsoft version of "IBM Watson", where they renamed seemingly unrelated projects to Watson.

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Re:What Is Copilot Exactly? by sumtechguy on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @02:30PM (#47604685)

MS has done this for years. The have had several overall brands. Visual, live, .net, direct, Active, X, etc etc etc. They will even sometimes have a couple in flight at the same time. Right now now it seems to be copilot and m365. I probably even forgot a couple.

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Re:What Is Copilot Exactly? by input_sh on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @03:04PM (#47605090)

Arguably it's even worse when they try to give "unique" names to similar-in-spirit products.

I will never forgive them for all the hair pulling I had to do to try differentiating between Team Foundation Version Control, Team Foundation Server, Team Foundation Services, Visual Studio Team Services, Visual Studio Online, Azure DevOps Server, and Azure DevOps Services.

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Re:What Is Copilot Exactly? by gwerbin on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @07:54PM (#47608228)

I have long suspected that Microsoft product branding and naming has more to do with their intended sales and contract structure than actually being informative with respect to what the product does.

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Re:What Is Copilot Exactly? by dboreham on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @01:53PM (#47604193)

ActiveX

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Re:What Is Copilot Exactly? by oblio on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @02:19PM (#47604548)

Nah. DotNet.

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Re:What Is Copilot Exactly? by hagbard_c on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @03:20PM (#47605306)

Next name: ThinksForSure. It worked for PlaysForSure [1] so why not for this next step towards the abyss?

[1] https://grokipedia.com/page/microsoft_playsforsure#discontin...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PlaysForSure#Critici...

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