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I'm confused over what anyone means when they say "Copilot", since it could mean the VS Code editor features or various features on github.com or the thing that Microsoft sell as part of their 365 office software.

I think this article is about the 365 suite.

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Don't forget about the Copilot in Windows, which is different from the Copilot in Bing, which is different from Copilot in Edge, which is different from the Copilot in Copilot Studio... and that's not even getting into the various Copilots across different 365 domains (Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales, Microsoft 365 Copilot for Service, Copilot for Microsoft Fabric, Copilot for Dynamics 365, etc are all separate products), plus the enterprise-side Security Copilot...

Good old Microsoft naming. I'll never understand how they can think it's a good idea to release multiple entirely different products and call them all variations of the same thing. One would think they would have solved this problem a decade ago and yet every few years it happens again.

Someone thought this would reduce marketing budget, since they now cross-promoting.

I love how Microsoft will have three products that compete with themselves, e.g. Lync and Skype and Teams all coexisting at the same time.

Yeah I'm talking about the thing you see when you go to https://m365.cloud.microsoft/chat/

At the top-right of that page, it has a little icon indicating 'enterprise data protection' but I can't see any way for me (the user) to know what type of Copilot licence (if any) the accountholder has assigned to my user account.

If you have the fancy copilot pro, you'll see it in the rest of your office account, such as outlook, where additional features are available such as email summarize etc.

Such an easy URL too

There's also "Copilot" which is the AI assistant accessible online and via a desktop app on Windows (and even other OSs)

Your description also works for GitHub copilot.

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