Copilot's chatbot service, Windows Recall, and other AI-related functionalities could soon become known simply as "Windows Intelligence." According to a recently surfaced reference included in a template...
It's such a dumb name, that it makes me genuinely furious there there are people out there who have lied and impostered their way into positions where they can make such decisions, while having absolutely no clue at all what they're even doing in the building.
Apple intelligence makes sense, because the abbreviation is AI. Pretty smart and simple if you think about it.
But Copilot is the kind of name Apple would choose for its product. Things like centre stage, launchpad, facetime... They're all very descriptive and cool sounding names of their software products. Copilot is a great name that they're throwing away along with Cortana because their crappy practices are crappy.
And also, isn't Copilot in other MS products besides Windows as well? Even if not now, it could be in the future. This naming would make it limiting to expand.
I think staying with cortana and focusing on making that a useful feature would be a better strat. It would be cool to have a little cortana robot inside your computer helping you with various tasks.
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.
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???
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.
By the way, you can view the markdown source of comments and text posts. There's a "view source" button that looks like a document icon on the stock Lemmy UI.
Microsoft will rename it, add something else in its place but let the old things linger in a zombie-like state.
Lost count of how many separate Skype/Zoom apps there are now.