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[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 43 points 2 years ago (4 children)

So they now have two separate AI chatbots named Copilot now? Obviously GitHub Copilot is focused on coding, but this one seems like it is not. Both are owned by Microsoft. Both are called Copilot. Both are AI chatbots.

[–] AaronMaria@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Coming from the Company that brought you "Visual Studio" and "Visual Studio Code" and called the followup of ".NET Framework" just ".NET". Sometimes I think they want their products to be hard to search.

[–] Helix@feddit.de 22 points 2 years ago

Or the Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox One X/S, Xbox Series X/S.

Or Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, 11.

Someone at Microsoft just really wants people to know that naming is hard. I am pretty sure they're intentionally confusing customers so they only know what the current product is.

[–] andruid@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Windows subsystem for Linux (WSL) which is Linux as a subsystem of Windows.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I still mess up launching it on my work Mac. Apparently "Code" works but "VSCode" doesn't, and everybody calls it "VSCode" where I work.

I'm usually a ViM person, but I gave it a go when helping out with an unfamiliar project.

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

There is an open source version of vscode without all the MS telemetry stuff, it's called VSCodium or just Code. Although I wouldn't be surprised if normal VScode also starts with "code" instead of "vscode"

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Visual_Studio_Code

[–] SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Oh there's more. There's also 365 Copilot and Windows Copilot.

Not confusing at all.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And there is Windows 365, and Microsoft 365.

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago

Microsoft 365 is the new name for Office 365

[–] B0rax@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Soon they will just rename everything to Copilot.

[–] criticalthreshold@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Microsoft Defender: You must be new.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 5 points 2 years ago

I think they do this intentionally because their users are so bad at computers, they will want "copilot" everywhere, and think of it as intellisense (microsofts word for auto completion).

I've seen in corporations that clueless managers even go as far as thinking Microsoft stuff is reliable and trustable and other alternatives are not. Marketing works.