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How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'? I mapped every one

giancarlostoro: Its annoying especially since Copilot exists in Visual Studio (Code too I believe) and its not exactly "the same" thing as far as I can tell. I really hate Microsoft's naming conventions. At least call that one Copilot for Devs or something more meaningful.

stephenlf: Microsoft yearns for the flight simulator.

Razengan: It's MSN, Plus, Live, Surface, 365 all over again

throwaway87543: Okay. But how many products have Gemini or Claude in the name?

ChrisArchitect: Related/same discussion:What Is Copilot Exactly?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603231

ChrisArchitect: Related:What Is Copilot Exactly?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603231

jaffa2: Isn’t it just their AI llm thing?

ezfe: Copilot is a brand that refers to a variety of products

TradingPlaces: For a moment it was called Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. Naming things is hard.

harvey9: Reminds me of Microsoft OneCare which sounds like saying 'wanker' with a slight French accent

chrisjj: [delayed]

function_seven: I’m waiting for .Net Copilot with integration to Passport.

lateforwork: Copilot is just Microsoft's term for AI. How many products have Copilot? Just about all of them.

chatmasta: I don’t use windows, so most of this doesn’t affect me, but I do use GitHub and VSCode. Can anyone clarify, once and for all, whether “GitHub Copilot” and “VSCode Copilot” (sic?) are the same product? The documentation isn’t even clear, and it’s important because it affects billing. How do these two products interact and where do they NOT overlap?

nlawalker: I actually was just thinking about doing something very similar for this but for "agent," specifically in the Microsoft ecosystem. There are a zillion different proper nouns (products, services, frameworks, toolkits and tools, SDKs etc.) containing "agent" now, plus a bunch of other things that are now "agentic".

georgeburdell: Reminds me of the 2010s when IBM called everything Watson

claaams: No one can ruin microslops branding better than microslop.

Handy-Man: It's just one brand: Copilot

ethmarks: The Copilot in Visual Studio (Code) is not the same as Microsoft's Copilot. The former is GitHub's AI product and the latter is Microsoft's AI product. You can tell them apart because GitHub Copilot's icon is a helmet with goggles and Microsoft Copilot's icon is that colourful swirl thing.It's wildly confusing branding not only because they're identically-named things that both repackage OpenAI's LLMs, but also because they're both ultimately owned by the same company.I can only assume that the conflicting naming convention was either due to sheer incompetence or because they decided that confusing users was advantageous to them.

ieie3366: Crazy how copilot was a great brand, and might even have been the first mass market LLM product (2022-2023 code autocomplete) but they completely ensloppified it

yunnpp: Slopya Nutella leaves no stone unslopped.

robocat: Niece comment tries to explain a little: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47643220

BirAdam: The only Microsoft products I’ve actively heard people desire within the last 5 years are VSCode and Excel. Microsoft have so severely damaged their brand that they’ve finally shed the image of oddly gray Dell midtowers running XP on Pentium 4.

quag: It reminds me of around 2002 when Microsoft named everything ".net".

amanzi: Yep, I remember downloading a beta version of what would be eventually released as Windows Server 2003. The beta version was called Windows .Net Server 2003.

frankzander: But beware if someone say to them Microslop ... they don't like it if someone other make up new names :-)

zdragnar: Is it unreasonable to not appreciate an insult?

FartyMcFarter: Soon: Copilot .NET .

guidedlight: Surprisingly, I immediately noticed that “Gaming Copilot” is missing (i.e. The version of Copilot that Microsoft shoehorned into the Xbox mobile app).

mrandish: > “Gaming Copilot” is missingIt would be ironic if there was nothing called "CoPilot" for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

lou1306: > they're identically-named things that both repackage OpenAI's LLMsHaven't tried it yet but the GitHub Copilot extension for VSCode also seems to integrate Claude, Gemini and other non-OAI stuff

chatmasta: They do, and those models are served by Microsoft. You pay a premium per “request” (what that means is not fully clear to me) for certain models. If you use the native chat extension in VSCode for GitHub CoPilot, with Opus model selected, you are not paying anthropic. This counts against your GitHub Copilot subscription.The Claude Code extension for VSCode from Anthropic will use your Claude subscription. But honestly it’s not very good - I use it but only to “open in terminal” (this adds some small quality of life features like awareness it’s in VSC so it opens files in the editor pane next to it).

shireboy: I get that it's annoying, but also don't know what else one would do? "FooPilot is our Office AI toolset, BarWonk is our code assist tool"? There are also a lot of Claudes and GPTs. Naming things is hard.

BenFranklin100: The problem is not annoyance. The problem is confusion.One should aim for clarity.FooPilot, Barwonk, etc.. would actually be a vast improvement.

chatmasta: And let’s not forget that Visual Studio Code (the IDE) is not Visual Studio (the IDE).

bdangubic: this is true only on HN. in reality, if you wanted a job where you did not use microsoft products you’d probably have to get a wrench and start doing plumbing work :)

lpcvoid: Nah, especially in technology it's very easy to avoid Microslop. I've done it successfully for many, many years.

walrus01: This is what happens when you have some sort of top-down directive from the C-level people to put "AI" in everything, and dozens of department/project managers who all have their own fiefdoms

rr808: I work in big financials. Everything used to be built on Excel. A lot still is but Python/Jupyterhub or custom applications has taken over a lot of the complex stuff. Excel isn't really essential any more.

EvanAnderson: Microsoft is uniquely unable to name / brand anything sensibly:"Outlook" / "Outlook Web Access" / "Outlook Web App" / "Outlook.com" / "new Outlook for Windows" / "Outlook (classic)".NET: .NET Framework. ASP.NET. .NET Core. Windows .NET Server. Ugh...)The love of the term "Explorer": "Internet Explorer" / "Windows Explorer" / "File Explorer" / "MSN Explorer"Similarly is the love of "Defender": "Windows Defender" / "Microsoft Defender" / "Windows Defender Antivirus" / "Windows Firewall" / "Windows Defender Firewall" / "Microsoft AntiSpyware" / "Microsoft Security Essentials" / "System Center Endpoint Protection""Messenger" was a term they loved: "MSN Messenger" / "Windows Messenger" / "Windows Live Messenger" (which also evokes the whole "Windows Live" series of products)Windows 95 shipped with an email client called "Exchange" that could be used peer-to-peer (using a filesystem-based "Microsoft Mail Postoffice"), but there was also the email server platform "Exchange""Microsoft Teams" / "New Microsoft Teams" / "Microsoft Teams for Business""Microsoft FrontPage" / "Site Server" / "Site Server Commerce Edition" / "Office Server" / "SharePoint Portal Server" / "Windows SharePoint Services" / "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server" / "SharePoint Foundation" / "SharePoint Server" / "SharePoint Standard" / "SharePoint Enterprise" / "SharePoint Online" / "SharePoint Designer""Office Communicator" / "Microsoft Lync" / "Skype for Business" / "Skype" / "Skype for Business Online" / "Skype for Business for Microsoft 365"Fairly guffaw-inducing branding, to me, was removing the Remote Desktop Client app and introducing something called "Windows App".The old "System Management Server" became "System Center" and its family of products.There's the whole accounting software / ERP world, too:"Great Plains" / "Dynamics GP" / "Navision" / "Dynamics NAV" / "Solomon" / "Dynamics SL" / "Axapta" / "Dynamics AX" / "Dynamics 365" / "Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations" / "Dynamics 365 Business Central"(For most guffaws induced, though, there's the Windows 98-era "Critical Update Notification Tool"[0])[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Update#Critical_Update...

ValentineC: > "Messenger" was a term they loved: "MSN Messenger" / "Windows Messenger" / "Windows Live Messenger" (which also evokes the whole "Windows Live" series of products)I thought this was the same app/protocol, only more enshittified as time went by.

jtokoph: Great point. We’re about to get a wave of Apple Products with “Apple Intelligence” in a similar way.

hamasho: It makes sense. And Google is its own way to name all AI products “Gemini”.

shireboy: Git is a distributed source control system. It's open source and you can use it to version source code on your drive and/or a remote git repository.Github is one of the most popular git repository hosts. In addition to source repositories, it has other services like issue tracking and wikis.A while back, Microsoft bought Github."Github Copilot" is a service you can buy (with limited free sku) from Github that adds AI capabilities to your Github subscription.One of the ways you can use Github Copilot is by using the GitHub Copilot extension for VSCode. This extension lets you use chat inside VSCode in such a way that it can read and write code. It lets you pick which LLM model you want to use: Claude Sonnet, Opus, OpenAI GPT, etc., from the ones they support.Note you don't need another subscription if you only use Github Copilot. They pay Anthropic, you pay Github. You _might_ want another subscription directly with Anthropic if, say, you want to use Claude Code instead."VSCode Copilot" isn't a thing. Some people might call Github Copilot extension for VSCode "VSCode Copilot".Github MCP server lets AI tools like GitHub Copilot extension for VSCode, Claude Code, or any tool that supports MCP use your Github account to do things like pull requests, read issues, etc. Just using it from Claude Code would not use Github Copilot tokens, UNLESS you used it to work against your Github Copilot service. You would not need a Github Copilot subscription to use it for example to create a pull request or read an issue. But it would use your Github Copilot tokens if, say, you used the MCP from Claude Code to assign a task to Github Copilot. It uses githubcopilot domain because they built it mostly for Github Copilot to use, though MCP is an open standard so it can be used from any MCP-supporting AI tool.

aucisson_masque: Sidenote but I don't get why you would want to pay github to run Claude on your code.Yeah github pays Claude but what's the point ?

rdsubhas: Blame brain dead product managers who merely want to hoist their poor quality yearly performance review slop on something existing that carries SEO/SEM value.Most of the time, these piggy backers only pull down the value of what they're riding on.

1a527dd5: Ignoring the disaster that is their branding/naming.Copilot is _amazing_. Everyone is hyping about Claude, but I'm way more productive with the copilot cli. The copilot cloud agent is great, and copilot code review is great (we also tried the new very expensive claude code review - it was slow and expensive).Forget that it's Microsoft, forget that everything is Copilot and go and give it a shot.

everfrustrated: The workflow that GitHub has for prompting agent inside the ide itself is by far and away the nicest and most intuitive I've used.Claude's integration looked like trash in comparison.Why would I lock myself into a single vendor when I can have access to all models.Also the GitHub subscription is a very good price.

chatmasta: Yeah, the workflow is superb. That’s what I miss most using Claude in a terminal inside VSCode. It doesn’t integrate with VSCode native diff tools like the native VSCode (GitHub Copilot does. The Claude extension in non-terminal mode is crap.

whynotmaybe: Is it in solitaire or minesweeper?

hebelehubele: Be careful what you wish for

yreg: Most corporations have Microsoft already greenlisted as a vendor.Making it possible to buy something from Anthropic might require tedious paperwork for many of them.

thedelanyo: Someone said - in Linux, everything is a file. In Microsoft, everything is a copilot. Lol.

Waterluvian: Microsoft .NET Copilot

SturgeonsLaw: From a user point of view there's no real reason for it, from an admin point of view if your team is already using Github Enterprise then deploying it is basically hitting a toggle switch, and it has some more fine grained controls about what it can or can't do compared to Claude Code.

Gigachad: They could start by not renaming Microsoft Office and laptops as copilot.

brcmthrowaway: How much is it?

altern8: Nice try, Nadella!

giancarlostoro: Copilot for Visual Studio (IDE) has multiple models, not just OpenAI models, it also includes Claude. It is basically a competitor to JetBrains AI.The only good "AI" editor that supports Claude Code natively has so far been Zed. It's not PERFECT, but it has been the best experience short of just running Claude Code directly in the CLI.

schappim: Microsoft is not alone in this. Apple does the same thing!There is Siri on iPhone, Mac, Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod, Apple TV, and CarPlay and are all different different incarnation of Siri (with different capabilities). Then there is everything else like the Siri Remote, Siri Suggestions (and all their types: Siri apps suggestions, Maps, keyboard, Share Sheet, etc), Siri Shortcuts, and Siri Knowledge (WolframAlpha + Wikipedia + other databases?).I'm sure 75% of these will be rebranded "Apple Intelligence" by the end of the year...

giancarlostoro: The best non-Clude Code CLI integration by far has been Zed's and I prefer Zed over what VS Code has become.

gedy: I think they'll more likely launch competing AI projects like 'Aquarius' and 'Doh' or something

giancarlostoro: This is my biggest frustration as a full time .NET developer. Its especially worse when you're searching for Visual Studio (IDE) specifics, and get results for VS Code. It bewilders me why a company that owns a search engine names their products so poorly.

karlitooo: maybe a different thing but trying to work with copilot as part of the microsoft apps (e.g. automation flows) feels like it has zero reasoning ability, just says the same thing over and over like a chatbot rather than LLM.

gedy: Microsoft Azure .NET Copilot 365

idontwantthis: But they put Gemini in google docs, they didn’t rename Docs to Gemini like Microsoft did.

slaymaker1907: While less necessary with AI, Excel is still the king of data entry and basic data manipulation (sorting, filtering, updating, etc.). I’d say that SQLite with a GUI for visualization is a far stronger competitor than Jupyter at those sorts of things. You can do that stuff in Jupyter, but it’s easier in Excel.Jupyter also has a janky execution model. It doesn’t track dependencies so you have to be very careful in how you separate cells from one another and just running the whole notebook every time seems kind of pointless vs just writing a pure Python script.

hocuspocus: I think it's fine. GitHub Copilot is popular as ever, especially in companies that have enterprise tier subscriptions. Plans for personal use pretty good too, pricing is competitive. The VS Code integration and agentic features aren't bad either.Developer tools live in their own space. And I assume most devs don't really care that "Copilot" started to show up everywhere, especially in MS365 products. At least I don't. Conversely, do non-technical people care where the term comes from, and now means "LLM integration" in a bunch of MS products?I think it's better that Google going through Bard, Gemini, IDX, Firebase Studio, Antigravity, ...

quantummagic: > Copilot is _amazing_.Do you mean Github Copilot? If not, which Copilot are you recommending? Can you give a link to where it can be purchased or trialed?

yreg: Which is unusually simple. I would expect Google to use 10 more marketing names simultaneously without any logic to the product lines.

jayknight: Next year they will introduce "hAIngouts" as an AI chat bot.

mschulkind: I use it because they offer absurdly cheap prices that they're clearly losing money on. I can get $1000 at API prices of Opus 4.6, for in the range of $2 my cost through copilot.

Twirrim: And IBM has "Watson"

Findecanor: "Microsoft Surface" ...If first meant a coffee table form factor PC with touch screen and special software, which was able to sense special objects placed on top of it. Then that was renamed to "PixelSense" [1] and "Surface" got to mean a line of touchscreen tablet form factor PCs. OK, reusing a strong brand for a product line expected to sell more, and which still fit the theme would make sense... but then the brand was also put on laptops, convertibles, desktop PC and an Android phone ... eh. OK. but they still had touch screens.... but then the brand was also put on generic peripherals: keyboard, mouse, headphones, earbuds, etc. A search for "microsoft surface keyboard", could result in a "type cover" for some kind of Surface tablet or a keyboard or mouse for desktop computers with no other connection to touch devices than the name.Microsoft later did the same with the "Microsoft Sculpt" brand. First it meant a compact curved "sculpted" ergonomic keyboard with chiclet keys and an ergonomic mouse that was sold as a set. Then the brand got reused for other keyboards, with no special ergonomics whatsoever.BTW. Microsoft has also released actual products with the similarly ungoogleable names "Microsoft Bluetooth Keyboard" and "Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard".[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PixelSense

ayewo: Anyone remember Google Bard or LaMDA?

tonypapousek: Not sure they count as “products” in this context, but TypeScript and Playwright are still nice.

flexagoon: Idk, at least in Apple's case it all refers to a voice assistant and some of the features integrated with it.If they were like MS, they would add Siri into everything and then call it "Siri Cloud", "Siri Messages", etc (if they were even more like MS, iMessage would be "Siri 365 Communication Suite")

layer8: It also refers to various "smart" suggestions that have nothing to do with the voice assistant: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/turn-siri-suggestions...Nowadays Apple would brand such features as "Apple Intelligence", but since they already existed long before, they are "Siri".But I agree that it's not quite as badly ubiquitous as Copilot.

Dwedit: I have personally nullified one of those, namely the Copilot Key. It took a low level keyboard hook, and blocking a specific sequence of keys, then injecting the right ctrl key back.

schappim: These are all non talky talky: Siri Suggestions, Siri Knowledge (Safari / Spotlight Intelligence), Siri Shortcuts (Automation, not voice), Siri Intelligence (On-device ML features), Siri Widget/Watch face… you get the idea. There was a time when “Siri” was the catch all for Smart/ML.

gWPVhyxPHqvk: It's massively cheaper. Copilot charges per request, which with some clever prompting, can lead to huge amounts of work being done at fractions of the cost of Claude Code. Millions of tokens for mere pennies. MS must be taking a huge hit somewhere, because I'm probably getting 10-20x my value out of GH relative to CC.I am not locked in to Anthropic, either. I can easily switch between GPT and Gemini models based on how I think each would perform in various scenarios. That's a big win. I use a lot of design with Opus, implement with GPT 5.4.Also, Github Copilot CLI is pretty much at feature parity (for the stuff that matters) with Claude Code. Using both at work and home, I don't think there's much difference in features between the two. Maybe I'm not a super power user, and just a regular dumb user, but GH doesn't seem buggy and everything I think I'd want to do with CC I can do with GH.

maille: How can I learn that clever prompting?

VladVladikoff: I’ve been wondering lately if the next Xbox will have “copilot” in the name. With an easy to accidentally press dedicated button on the controller that interrupts the game you’re playing to start an AI chat.

anal_reactor: A valid use case would be AI pretending to be the second player so that you can pretend you're having friends over while actually you're alone. Schizophrenia-as-a-Service.

fortran77: I don't know if you're kidding, but I agree with you. I use the Copilot CLI in VS Code and Visual Studio and it works better than anything else. I do use Claude models with it....

aleph_minus_one: > Microsoft .NET CopilotNot to be confused with "Microsoft Copilot .NET". :-)

pluc: or Microsoft Copilot for .NET Core

aleph_minus_one: .NET Core does not exist anymore: it was renamed to .NET with .NET 5.0 (skipping version 4.0):> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=.NET&oldid=134276...

chatmasta: Related: a list of all Microsoft login portals (there are 609 of them).https://msportals.io/

fortran77: These drive my password manager nuts, especially when there are actually different logins for them. I just put a note in it saying exactly what service it's for.

anal_reactor: Microsoft Azure .NET Copilot 365 Series X

aleph_minus_one: Microsoft should add a new game to Windows to accustom Windows users to Copilot.

hsbauauvhabzb: Which was arguably more problematic. Are you referring to a web address or a Microsoft product?

layer8: More importantly, you couldn't usefully search for it with the search engines of the time.

layer8: We are still missing "Windows Subsystem for Copilot".

Traubenfuchs: How many of those are used regularly by more than 0.1% users?

jeffhwang: Halo Cortana AI: Copilot for Combat 2026

layer8: Ouch. Maybe "Google wAIve" for collaborative chats.

tylerchilds: And Silly has Silly!

bdangubic: possible, sure. easy, I would disagree. starting with government and any government contracting through most enterprises. startups etc perhaps but avoiding msft severely limits your options

juliusceasar: Haha, actually funny.

didgetmaster: Just what we need...AI agents that will play our games for us!

dangus: Music the app and Music the subscription service are the two worst, tied with TV the app, TV the hardware device, and TV+ the subscription service. At least TV+ is named differently.

firefoxd: Just this last week, I wrote about the confusion this creates in the workplace[0]. My coworker said "copilot" literally referring to any code assistant, the same way we say bandaid or kleenex. I thought he was talking about Copilot, the one I see nagging me on Microsoft teams. We had a full discussion about completely different tools without realizing it.[0]: https://idiallo.com/blog/what-is-copilot-exactly[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603231

morkalork: What's fun is getting into the co-pilot comparison conversational because they are not all equal either. Co-pilot 365 is a donkey for one

xattt: [delayed]

Zambyte: Using Microsoft products and desiring Microsoft products are not the same thing.

rowls66: Or when IBM renamed everything Websphere.

vjvjvjvjghv: [delayed]

da_chicken: That's because .Net 4 has been the .Net Framework's current version since 2010. It's basically the same reason they never made Windows 9.They dropped the Core designation because they're still trying to encourage people to migrate so they can take .Net Framework out behind the shed where Silverlight went. v5 was a convenient time to start that whole process of re-integration.

saint_yossarian: [delayed]

jen20: Live Ultimate Edition for Developers.

tedk-42: Microsoft slowly becoming the IBM of the 21st century.

conductr: Probably will use other astrology terms. Like the way android is named for desserts.

gpi: Microsoft Azure .NET Core Copilot 355

malfist: Microsoft Azure .NET Core Copilot 355 (classic)

ChicagoDave: If this isn’t an indictment of MS management (pun intended), I don’t know what is.

NooneAtAll3: Microsoft .Copilot ?

goldenarm: The best move of Apple this decade was to ignore LLMs and let the others burn cash. Now they can use the mature Gemini for $1B. Brilliant.

ryandrake: > (if they were even more like MS, iMessage would be "Siri 365 Communication Suite")Siri 365 Communication Suite .NET Enterprise Edition With Copilot

esafak: Try to pack as much clear work into your prompt as you can so you don't go back and forth.

shiandow: Didn't they kill those?

ivanjermakov: And LSP, but because of TypeScript.

phillipcarter: In Microsoft's case it refers to an LLM system with some features integrated.

FridgeSeal: Microsoft Azure .NET Core Copilot 365 (classic) Professional Edition

ValentineC: > Copilot is just Microsoft's term for AI.This comment really helps me put things in perspective.I'm guess now that it's Microsoft's way of naming their LLM-powered products/features, the same way "Azure" is basically their codename for "cloud".

lloydatkinson: I’ve absolutely seen adverts on TV in the UK by Microsoft advertising Microsoft Cloud. Azure was not mentioned anywhere…

owlninja: Didn't it start as Bard?

chatmasta: Do hacks like “read prompt.md, and follow its instructions. When you’re done, read it again and follow its instructions.” And then you have some background process appending to the file to keep it warm and you just keep writing there?

rhet0rica: Never understood this about Windows Subsystem for Linux naming, nor its predecessor Windows Services for Unix. Surely Linux is the subsystem running on Windows? Should we now reinterpret Windows for Workgroups as a means of astrally projecting your organization inside Windows 3.11?! The dative only works ONE way, Microsoft!I guess they really just didn't want a product name to start with the name of a competitor's product. I bet Copilot can fix this...

eterm: I refuse to believe any are as bad as the Azure Portal one.It feels like pre-GPT levels of smart.

layer8: Windows has a notion of "subsystems". A Windows subsystem is a specific interface between the user-mode applications and the Windows kernel. So there are different Windows subsystems for different types of applications. The naming convention is "Windows subsystem for <application type>". It makes more sense when you read it as "Windows subsystem for [running] Linux [applications]".

IshKebab: Yeah imagine if they had unique product names for "AI in OneDrive", "AI in SharePoint", "AI in Outlook"... That would be even more ridiculous.

mynameisash: I think this is the right answer. I am frustrated by Copilot and by many aspects of AI, but to me it seems like straightforward branding: you use a Microsoft product, you want to use AI in it, you look for Copilot (name and&#x2F;or icon).To me, the issue isn't that they've named so many things 'Copilot' but rather that Copilot is in every goddamn product.

bmenrigh: Reminds me of around 2002 when MS slapped “.Net” onto everything.

spencerflem: I still like the name Bard

ChadNauseam: > I guess they really just didn't want a product name to start with the name of a competitor's product.Probably, but I doubt linux wants it either. People might think it's some official linux product.

claysmithr: I can't wait for Copilot Copilot for Copilot 365 X Copilot X

gWPVhyxPHqvk: I haven't tried that - that's ingenious. However, I don't think I can type or think that fast :-).

MYEUHD: Gaming Copilot: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xbox.com&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;gaming-copilot

Tiereven: I guess if Copilot were actually a singular entity that had all of these touch points and a decent security model to prevent unintentionally exposing your data - it would be pretty cool.

rationalist: Thanks for the stroke. Where do I send the hospital bill?

mandeepj: It's not a product, but enablement or a feature! Just like a 'Pro' label :-)

rationalist: > a search for "surface keyboard", could result in a "type cover" for some kind of tablet PC or a keyboard intended for desktop computers.Do you mean blades?Proof that I'm not hallucinating that name: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.windowscentral.com&#x2F;meet-surface-music-kit-new-bl...

zarzavat: > It makes more sense when you read it as "Windows subsystem for [running] Linux [applications]".You can't have ellipsis when the shortened version already has its own meaning.X for Y when both X and Y are nouns means that X is part of Y, not that Y is part of X.e.g. "I bought new tyres for my car". The tyres are part of my car. You can't flip it and say "I bought new my car for tyres", it's just not how the word "for" works.Grammatically it has to be "Linux for Windows subsystem", or "Windows subsystem for running Linux" as you said. The verb is essential for it to parse correctly.

netule: Copilot Copilot for Copilot

Andrex: Being a (very) young script kiddie I was so confused it had nothing to do with the TLD. None of the sites were even hosted on a .net domain! "Wtf?"