This has to be the idea of the century

  • Quicky@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No interest in Windows at all, but Copilot is actually a great name for what the product is supposed to be/being marketed as. Windows Intelligence sounds like a return to the very old school long-winded style of Microsoft branding.

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      1 year ago

      The virgin .NET: System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture

      The chad POSIX: LANG=C

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      1 year 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

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        1 year ago

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

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        1 year 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???

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          1 year 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@lemmy.world
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          1 year 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.

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            1 year 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.

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    1 year ago

    You can call it 𝓜𝓮𝓻𝓭𝓮, but it’ll still taste like shit.

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    1 year ago

    First big tech slapped “powered by AI!” on everything and now - a mere 2 years later - it has been exposed as nothing but a safety risk without a tangible benefit, they’re trying their best to hide it’s mere existence while still dumping it into everything. They just can’t help it.

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      1 year ago

      Or artificial intelligence explorer. AIE for short. And give it a blue icon of an E or something.

    • T156@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Or reprise their old assistants from XP.

      At least a “computer Wizard” would make them stand out compared to ChatGPT in a funny box.

  • simple@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    If they did this from the start it might’ve sounded fine, but now it just feels like they’re trend-chasing after Apple Intelligence…

  • TORFdot0@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Just get the confusing branding over with and call it “Intelligence for Windows Live Business Premium”

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    1 year ago

    I mean that’s standard practice. If a feature, product, or company develops a bad reputation, just rename it. If your market is large enough there will be enough people not paying attention to not realize it’s the same product.