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Microsoft renames Bing Chat to Copilot as it competes with ChatGPT
(techcrunch.com)
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this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2023
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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.
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.
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.
Windows subsystem for Linux (WSL) which is Linux as a subsystem of Windows.
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.
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
Oh there's more. There's also 365 Copilot and Windows Copilot.
Not confusing at all.
And there is Windows 365, and Microsoft 365.
And Office 365
Microsoft 365 is the new name for Office 365
Oh boy.
Soon they will just rename everything to Copilot.
Microsoft Defender: You must be new.
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.