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I believe you might be confusing Copilot Search with Copilot+? Which is of course different from Copilot Pro though not necessarily entirely distinct.

My confusion has only increased.

They have even renamed Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot. Yes. Microsoft Office.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/01/18/microsoft-just-rena...

Yeah that's not going to work.

Someone within Microsoft really needs to forward this entire thread over to their marketing department.

And Sam Altman thought that they were bad at naming things. Good thing they were bought up by the king of naming things. /s

Edit: They are doubling down on bad naming conventions so hard that it makes me think it's some kind of dark pattern sales strategy..

Classic HN psychology would say: Occam's razor would suggest mediocrity before an elaborate dark pattern scheme.

And I would agree with them in this case.

I agree with you but i also think mediocrity and semi accidental dark patterns can go hand in hand. In a "if it sells don't fix it" kind of way.