This has to be the idea of the century

  • @[email protected]
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    3515 days ago

    Agreed, Copilot was one of if not the best named AI I think. Why they would want to rebrand it to something so bland so quickly is beyond me

    • @[email protected]
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      1815 days ago

      I have no love for Microsoft but their naming is one of the worst parts… Let’s make a game console! We’ll call it Xbox!.. That sold well let make another! We’ll call it xbox360… Time for a refresh on the gaming console! We’ll call it Xbox one… Another refresh but this time let’s make two versions! We’ll call them Xbox one series s and x box one series s!

      Or our popular ide is bloated and people are asking for a light weight ide… What’s our current ide called? Visual studio but alot of people abbreviate it to vs! Let’s call the new one vscode! Do they have anything in common or share functionality or shortcuts? No

      Don’t get me started on windows… 3.1… 95…nt…98…2000…me…vista…7…8…10…11 like wtf???

      • @[email protected]
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        815 days ago

        At least Xbox made some sense, it was originally going to be called the DirectXbox, thankfully they shortened the name to something catchier.

      • VindictiveJudge
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        214 days ago

        NT was a fully seperate product from 95 and 98, using a different kernel. 95 -> 98 -> Me was the old kernel, NT -> 2000 -> XP -> Vista -> 7 -> 8 -> 10 -> 11 is the other line. Me was a play on Millenium Edition, so that line was just numbered by year. The NT series names are a bit wonky, though. The reason for skipping 9 involves legacy program support and bad coding practices from ye olde programmers. 7 was kind of an arbitrary number to begin with, though.

        • @[email protected]
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          114 days ago

          Yeah, I understand the whole different kernal thing but that’s the type of thing that the average consumer shouldn’t have to know to follow your program naming scheme.

          • clif
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            214 days ago

            I just enjoy that I can call them “xbone”

    • Uninvited Guest
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      415 days ago

      Cortana was the best branding, though I understand only resonated within certain circles.

    • @vin
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      215 days ago

      Maybe they didn’t want to tarnish the copilot brand with risky privacy invasion