Technology

59990 readers

2324 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

321

"Windows Intelligence": Microsoft may drop Copilot in major AI rebranding (www.techspot.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/technology

80 comments fedilink hide all child comments

This has to be the idea of the century

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Why9 35 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's such a dumb name, that it makes me genuinely furious there there are people out there who have lied and impostered their way into positions where they can make such decisions, while having absolutely no clue at all what they're even doing in the building.

Apple intelligence makes sense, because the abbreviation is AI. Pretty smart and simple if you think about it.

But Copilot is the kind of name Apple would choose for its product. Things like centre stage, launchpad, facetime... They're all very descriptive and cool sounding names of their software products. Copilot is a great name that they're throwing away along with Cortana because their crappy practices are crappy.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Let me just windows app into my computer to see if it's still called copilot.

[–] levzzz 7 points 1 month ago

It came from github copilot, which quite literally codes alongside you, like a copilot.

[–] nawa 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And also, isn't Copilot in other MS products besides Windows as well? Even if not now, it could be in the future. This naming would make it limiting to expand.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Microsoft is famous for nonsensical product and feature renamings. There is Microsoft 365 Copilot in their enterprise offerings, which integrates well with Copilot in Windows. And there is a tool to build your own Copilots with customized logic and data sources.