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.
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
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???
At least Xbox made some sense, it was originally going to be called the DirectXbox, thankfully they shortened the name to something catchier.
Yes... And the sequels? I still don't know if Xbox one s or x box one x is the higher end model....
Because it's Microsoft and they have to compulsively rename things every few years.
Cortana was the best branding, though I understand only resonated within certain circles.
The virgin .NET:
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It sounds invasive. Like it's a private intelligence agency and not a chat bot.
Perfectly on brand for Windows then lol
"Windows Intelligence" is an oxymoron, just like whoever came up with this rebranding.
Remember 'Microsoft Works'?! The home version of 'Office' almost entirely incompatible with everything.
I think we can drop the oxy part
You can call it 𝓜𝓮𝓻𝓭𝓮, but it'll still taste like shit.
Best usage of French vocabulaire I've ever seen, and I'm from Canada
Should have stayed with Cortana, at least that was a cool name.
I don't think Microsoft is capable of not fumbling everything related to the Halo franchise.
Microsoft try not to copy everything Apple does challenge: Impossible
At least "Apple Intelligence" is cute because the initials for it are A.I.
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.
It came from github copilot, which quite literally codes alongside you, like a copilot.
Excellent to see that Microsoft's product strategy continues to just be a flailing mess.
So swap “Apple” for “Microsoft” in the name, huh? Yeah, that’ll work.
Its still the same PR nightmare and no one wants your AI crapware Micro$oft!
Yeah I love that it's just a shitty product, but no, go on try fixing it with ✨ rebranding ✨
This is not only for Microsoft, AI is overhyped as a whole.
that is pitiful
Just get the confusing branding over with and call it “Intelligence for Windows Live Business Premium”
Pro max plus
That would be an oxymoron.
Wow where’d they get that jenius branding idea, I wonder.
Microsoft. Never changes.
Ooh, can I use that App that used to be Remote Desktop and then they renamed it, hmm, what did they call it… oh right “Windows App”
Give it another 6 months and it'll be "Skynet for xbox" or something similarly worse.
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.
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.
"have you tried painting it pink, then maybe they will like it"
Bro looked at apples corny branding and envied it 😭🤞
As always, Microsoft is always one step behind apple.
At least apple intelligence was a little clever, its abbreviation is still "AI"
But windows intelligence? That just sounds fucking stupid. As an operating system windows is not known for its intelligence. Stupid slow, bloated, spying sack of shit software.
They should've looked at their star software product: Microsoft access.
Now presenting: Access Intelligence
Sometimes a great idea just comes to you out of nowhere at all!
It will be as successfull as the twitter to x rebranding
Wii
Ugh
Microsoft's naming strategy is just the American Economics wheel from South Park, but with names on it. Of all the big tech companies, they are easily the fucking worst at naming shit.
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