alt Hacker News> Copilot is just Microsoft's term for AI.
This comment really helps me put things in perspective.
I'm guess now that it's Microsoft's way of naming their LLM-powered products/features, the same way "Azure" is basically their codename for "cloud".
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lloydatkinson • yesterday at 11:41 PM
I’ve absolutely seen adverts on TV in the UK by Microsoft advertising Microsoft Cloud. Azure was not mentioned anywhere…
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Pxtl • yesterday at 9:25 PM
Except they named their local hosted version of TFS/VSTS Azure DevOps Server (where the cloud version is Azure DevOps Services).
They just like branding their dev tools for whatever they're pushing at the time. In 2002 they named Visual Studio "Visual Studio .NET".
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As everything is grouped under cloud and ai at Microsoft, Azure means now basically anything produced by Microsoft.