If you've lost track of what Microsoft's calling its AI assistant this week, Microsoft MVP Loryan Strant has created just the resource you need: a sit

Is Microsoft's AI Copilot? CoPilot? Co-pilot? MVP creates site to help get it right

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2024-10-28 05:00:02

If you've lost track of what Microsoft's calling its AI assistant this week, Microsoft MVP Loryan Strant has created just the resource you need: a site called Let me correct that for you!

Microsoft famously rebrands stuff at quite a clip and isn't always consistent. In the case of Copilot, it started life as "Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365" before it was rebranded as "Microsoft 365 Copilot." Neither should be confused with the consumer version of Copilot, named "Microsoft Copilot." Norr with "Bing Chat" – another name used for what became Copilot.

Whatever it's called, Strant laments the fact some assume the name uses CamelCase – as is the case with other Microsoft products that have a P in the middle, like "SharePoint" and "PowerPoint." Or certain P-less names like OneDrive, OneNote, and PowerShell.

Speaking of SharePoint, his site points out that in the context of that product Microsoft defines a "team" as a type of site template. Which creates confusion when those who aren't across SharePoint's vagaries say something like "It's in the team site" and the listener assumes that's a reference to Microsoft Teams – users of which often refer to spaces with their workmates as a "team site."