> 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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siva7 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

As everything is grouped under cloud and ai at Microsoft, Azure means now basically anything produced by Microsoft.

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lloydatkinson 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’ve absolutely seen adverts on TV in the UK by Microsoft advertising Microsoft Cloud. Azure was not mentioned anywhere…

	▲	wildzzz 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe that's because they don't want people who've never heard of Azure to just let it blend into the wide spectrum of cloud products whereas Microsoft is something almost everyone would recognize.

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Pxtl 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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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mynameisvlad 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's because TFS/VSTS followed the same naming convention where the "S" stood for either Server or Services. Once they rebranded the Azure-backed hosted version Azure DevOps Services, then it no longer really made sense to do anything but rename the self hosted version in the same fashion.

It would have been more confusing to have Visual Studio Team Server and Azure DevOps Services being the same product but hosted differently.

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jasomill 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not just developer tools, reusing trademarks in general.

At one point the next version of Windows Server 2003 was going to be Windows .NET Server.

Also Windows CE, Outlook Express, Xbox App, Xbox Game Pass for PC, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio for Mac, Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office Word, etc.

	▲	nandomrumber 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There is no perfect pasta sauce. Only perfect pasta sauces. Howard R. Moskowitz is an American market researcher and psychophysicist. He is known for the detailed study he made of the types of spaghetti sauce and horizontal segmentation. By providing a large number of options for consumers, Moskowitz pioneered the idea of intermarket variability as applied to the food industry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Moskowitz