Microsoft does this painfully often
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brisk@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Who could have ever guessed that naming different software the same thing would ever come back to bite them
wathek@discuss.online 7 months ago
Zworf@beehaw.org 7 months ago
And they are doing it again. CoPilot for Windows, CoPilot for Github, CoPilot for sales, CoPilot for Microsoft 365, Bing CoPilot. All different products with different properties.
termus@beehaw.org 7 months ago
I think their first use of CoPilot was for pairing two Xbox controllers together for accessibility. Instead of making up something new, they just co-opt it from that and now it’s going to be impossible to google Copilot for Xbox Controllers issues.
Oh well, glad I made the switch to Linux.
emptiestplace@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
And they all fucking suck.
Rexios@lemm.ee 7 months ago
GitHub copilot does not suck. It’s just not magic. I’m never going back to writing boilerplate and heavily patterned code myself thank you very much.
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
But but… branding!
NoLifeKing@ani.social 7 months ago
I mean how about just not installing 5 different versions and just keeping the Theams new, its so fucking annoying in all regards.
rambaroo@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
Because they knew the new teams is a buggy piece of shit and people would need an alternative