This has to be the idea of the century

  • Quicky
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    2 months 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      352 months 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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        192 months 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???

        • @Defaced
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          82 months 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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          22 months 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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            11 month 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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              21 month ago

              I just enjoy that I can call them “xbone”

          • @TheGrandNagus
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            11 month ago

            In addition to ME and NT, they also had CE.

            CEMENT.

      • @Cornelius_Wangenheim
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        52 months ago

        Because it’s Microsoft and they have to compulsively rename things every few years.

      • Uninvited Guest
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        42 months ago

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

    • @rtxn
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      2 months ago

      The virgin .NET:

      Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture;
      Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture;
      

      The chad POSIX: LANG=C

      • Balder
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        32 months ago

        lol I didn’t think like that at first, but now it’ll stay in my mind.

        • @[email protected]
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          42 months ago

          Just so I’m the first one to utter the phrase:

          "We have credible reports from Windows Intelligence that a crime has been committed, your computer is going to restart. "