Dan Ports11h ago
graste

"How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'? I mapped every one."
https://teybannerman.github.io/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-microsoft-copilot-are-there.html

"A few weeks ago, I tried to explain to someone what Microsoft Copilot is. I couldn’t… because the name ‘Copilot’ now refers to at least 75 different things."

Apr 4 at 3:37pmWeb
Show threadMike Prior-Jones19h ago
@graste ah, unfond memories of Microsoft SharePoint Workspace (not the same as SharePoint) and Skype for Business (not the same as Skype)
Show threadgraste19h ago
@drmikepj "skype.exe" in my linux' system monitor or sound sources dialog (can't remember) was surprising back in the days...
Show threadTyrone Slothrop16h ago
@drmikepj @graste see also „Teams“ and “Teams (Work or School)”
Show threadMike Prior-Jones16h ago
@slothrop @graste oh gosh, yes
Show threadMike Prior-Jones16h ago
@slothrop @graste and also OneNote vs OneNote For Windows 10
Show threadAndrew1h ago
@slothrop @drmikepj @graste I had to work with both Lync and LINQ at one job, at least Microsoft spelled them differently
Show threadMike Prior-Jones54m ago
@andrewt @slothrop @graste gahh!
Show threadPentaxke19h ago
@graste I bet someone who consumes an unhealthy dosis of alcohol and other pills couldn't come up with the shit Microsoft is having...
Show threadbabble encat18h ago
@graste I'm so ready for Copilot One .NET Standard Professional Plus (Service Pack 3)
Show threadgraste18h ago
@babble_endanger Copilot for Silverlight SAML Solutions 2000
Show threadme·ta·phil, der14h ago
@graste @babble_endanger Copilot for Encarta '97
Show threadpiegames18h ago
@graste so Copilot has become a generic term for the concept then?
Show threadStanislav Ochotnický18h ago
@graste you think users have it bad? I pity the poor souls trying to plan and communicate "copilot" anything at Microslop. The comms confusion must be out of this world
Show threadDany 18h ago

@graste "Customers sometimes don't have a clear idea what our GenAI proposition is."

Actual words I've heard a Microsoft executive say.

Show threadM Schommer5h ago

@Dany @graste
"Everything everywhere all at once".

But don't forget: "For entertainment only"

Show threadKemotep 🔰18h ago
@graste I definitely remember multiple times the past year being told I was stupid for getting what “copilot” someone was using wrong over on the Orange Site and this is definitive proof that Microsoft is insane.
Show threadFubaroque18h ago
@graste This must be the first E of the three. And I really hope they get to the third soon! 🥳
Show threadEnema Cowboy17h ago
@graste
"We're all Squidward."
Show threadJennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊17h ago

@graste

On the plus side, when I say 'I hate CoPilot', the phrase is still 100% accurate.

Show threadBwaz17h ago
@graste
Ah, like .NET, Active whatzits, even "multimedia".
Show threadRegendans17h ago
#satire New book out 1 April 2027 : Copilot Outlook Duo for spaceship pilots. Reprinted to include new chapter for Copilot Dummies and Copilot MSCNDZ premium, platinum, gold and silver users.
Show threadMrGrumpyMonkey11h ago
@regendans Want a job in the industry? Just pay us thousands of dollars in order to get a piece of paper that certifies your expertise.
Show threadKerplunk16h ago

@graste

75 buckets of microslop named co pilot

I refuse to use any of them.

Show threadHubert Figuière15h ago
@graste it’s the new Windows.
Show threadRealZero15h ago
@graste I wanted to add that they also have XBox Copilot, which is a great accessibility feature and NOT related to AI, but...it seems they have renamed that one to "Xbox Controller Assist". I assume not to...erm...*looks at the image*...cause any confusion. 😅
Show threadBen Hammond15h ago

@graste

that word repeated over and over,
my tired eyes now read as 'coprolite'

and I cannot unsee it...

Show threadJoão Tiago Rebelo (NAFO J-121)13h ago
@benh it is called "Slopilot". If you think hard enough on how to say it (is it "Slo-pilot" or "Slop-ilot"?) you might be able to forget the fossilized poop one.
@graste
Show threadD. G. Marshall12h ago

@jt_rebelo @benh @graste

One day, Slopalot will be the Monty Python musical about how this technology set the world on fire. Literally. The world is burning already. Stop that. Stop it right now.

Show threadDavid Nash6h ago

@jt_rebelo @benh @graste

Sir Slopilot, the long-lost cousin of Sir Lancelot, long lost because he fscked up any knightly combat he was involved in. Legend has it that he was resurrected hundreds of years later, with a minor name change, as a Microsoft product that fscked up any application it was involved in.

Show threadJoão Tiago Rebelo (NAFO J-121)3h ago
@dpnash a knight so useless that he could only be used for entertainment purposes.
@benh @graste
Show threadD. G. Marshall12h ago

@benh @graste

Just as shit as fossilised dinosaur shit.

And too big to fail. Just like the dinosaurs.

Show threadEl Duvelle15h ago

@graste what this also demonstrates is that #Microsoft has waaay too many "products". Maybe they should focus and a few ones and actually make them work properly (😂) rather than aiming for a total monopoly of crap?

I know... wishful thinking, I know

Show threadMrGrumpyMonkey11h ago
@elduvelle @graste This is what happened to Intel. They spread themselves to thin which made their main product line suffer.
Show threadluca15h ago
@graste They differentiated in 75 flavors the things that will go wrong. Typical from Microsoft.
Show threadrich14h ago
@graste I don't see a problem here. Or here. Or over there, or -
Show threadEric Lawton14h ago

@graste

Maybe they'll rename the whole company.

"Ready to take control of your computer or your whole business, as soon as we decide you're not doing it right".

@alice

Show threadme·ta·phil, der14h ago
@graste I asked Copilot and it said that the chart is missing Copilot for Microsoft Copilot
Show threadSouprMatt14h ago

@graste They have flipped the popular bumper sticker.

“Copilot is my God.”

Show threadMrGrumpyMonkey12h ago
@mls14 @graste This is far more clever than it has any right to be.
Show threadNetraven13h ago
@graste proof that AI runs microsoft.
Show threadStephen Dioxide 12h ago
@graste My favorite part is that Copilot may not work as intended, and is for entertainment purposes only.
Show threadGreg Bell12h ago
@graste @simonzerafa for decades Microsoft famously falls in love with a name or prefix/suffix and re/names *everything* to use it. Remember "Visual" everything? "Active", as in Desktop, X, Server Pages, Directory? Remember the ridiculously un-searchable ".NET"? Forefront for a while in there. Everything was "Core" for a minute. Azure of course. I know I'm missing a few
Show threadMrGrumpyMonkey12h ago
@graste Microsoft just needs to rename itself Copilot and call it done. They won't, because that would be corporate suicide, but a monkey can dream.
Show threadLi ~ Crystal System11h ago

@graste remember that office is now Microsoft 365 Copilot App

.. also this is just .NET all over again isnt it?

Show threadTucker McKnight9h ago

@Li @graste such a Microsoft thing to do. Come up with a new brand identity, then slap it on everything until it means nothing.

But if this means we're getting another video of a sweaty Steve Ballmer shouting, "The keeEeEeEeey to copilot is...
👉DEVELOPERS👈" then I'm all for it.

Show threadAI6YR Ben10h ago
@graste hahaha
Show threaddiana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱10h ago

@graste

It's replicating like Agent Smith

"The best thing about being me, there's so many me's"

Show threadJoel VanderWerf10h ago
@graste "Copilot in Viva Glint" sounds like a rock opera.
Show threadirina 🐇🌷9h ago
@graste "copilot in viva glint" is just throwing syllables at the wall and adding "copilot"
Show threadjimgon8h ago

@graste

I thought it was one product.

Show thread@iveyline5h ago
@graste Like an evjl virus infecting everything Microsoft.
Show threadYesterday's Rose5h ago
@graste
"Microsoft Copilot. We don't know what it is and what it does, but it's got electrolytes, it's what the plants crave." (The plants, in fact, very much do not crave for it)
Show threadFonant4h ago
@graste Same with "Outlook".
Show threadKerry Nice4h ago
@graste Everything's a drum! https://auntydonna.fandom.com/wiki/Everything%27s_A_Drum
Everything's A Drum

Everything's A Drum is a sketch and song by Aunty Donna. Mark, Zach and Broden sing about how everything is a drum, including cups, bums. and genitals. When Zach is unable to drum on a pot, it is revealed that Mark and Zach came to Broden on the promise that everything was a drum; the realization that this may have been a lie threatens to tear them apart. Fortunately, Zach finds he was just playing the pot wrong. They proceed to drum on everything to the point of destruction. The sketch...

Aunty Donna Wiki
Show threadSchroedingers_Cat3h ago
@graste It helps in that anything called co-pilot I can ignore.
Show threadNorm Tovey-Walsh2h ago
@graste "For entertainment purposes only."
Show threadGlenn Seto1h ago
@graste Jesus with Copilot is my copilot.
Show threadcommonst1h ago
@graste we have recently moved to MS products from Google at work, and MS' habit of using the same name for multiple things is the most confusing thing I have ever seen in the workplace. No one can figure out how to do anything. It's wild.
Show threadPalmAndNeedle1h ago

@graste this is Copilot an Copilot excellent Copilot idea.

Copilot.

Show threadTim Severien1h ago
@graste In a Microsoft airliner, all passengers are copilots