How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?

Razengan

It's MSN, Plus, Live, Surface, 365 all over again

stephenlf

Microsoft yearns for the flight simulator.

giancarlostoro

Its annoying especially since Copilot exists in Visual Studio (Code too I believe) and its not exactly "the same" thing as far as I can tell. I really hate Microsoft's naming conventions. At least call that one Copilot for Devs or something more meaningful.

jaffa2

Isn’t it just their AI llm thing?

sublinear

> .. the name ‘Copilot’ now refers to at least 75 different things. Apps, features, platforms, a keyboard key, an entire category of laptops - and a tool for building more Copilots. All named ‘Copilot’. Right, so then it's not a "product", or even a range of "products". It's a brand name and inherently pointless to map out. It doesn't even have to involve any "AI" to be given the branding. All that matters is it's a thing they have, new or old, that they'd like to push people towards.

yunnpp

Plot twist: he used Copilot to generate the figure.

quag

It reminds me of around 2002 when Microsoft named everything ".net".

TradingPlaces

For a moment it was called Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. Naming things is hard.

gwf

It's the new .NET in that it been so overused as to become almost meaningless.

ieie3366

Crazy how copilot was a great brand, and might even have been the first mass market LLM product (2022-2023 code autocomplete) but they completely ensloppified it

lateforwork

Copilot is just Microsoft's term for AI. How many products have Copilot? Just about all of them.

ChrisArchitect

Related/same discussion: What Is Copilot Exactly? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603231

throwaway87543

Okay. But how many products have Gemini or Claude in the name?

guidedlight

Surprisingly, I immediately noticed that “Gaming Copilot” is missing (i.e. The version of Copilot that Microsoft shoehorned into the Xbox mobile app).

mirekrusin

They should have called it Micro.

claaams

No one can ruin microslops branding better than microslop.

georgeburdell

Reminds me of the 2010s when IBM called everything Watson

nlawalker

I actually was just thinking about doing something very similar for this but for "agent," specifically in the Microsoft ecosystem. There are a zillion different proper nouns (products, services, frameworks, toolkits and tools, SDKs etc.) containing "agent" now, plus a bunch of other things that are now "agentic".

chatmasta

I don’t use windows, so most of this doesn’t affect me, but I do use GitHub and VSCode. Can anyone clarify, once and for all, whether “GitHub Copilot” and “VSCode Copilot” (sic?) are the same product? The documentation isn’t even clear, and it’s important because it affects billing. How do these two products interact and where do they NOT overlap? This confusion even bleeds into other coding harnesses. I have no idea which GitHub MCP server I setup in Claude Code, but the domain has “githubcopilot” in it. Am I burning copilot tokens (or “requests” or whatever is their billing unit) when I use this from Claude?

Handy-Man

It's just one brand: Copilot