Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Copilot is an AI assistant brand from Microsoft Corporation, positioned as a productivity companion that works across the company's products and services. According to its official site, Copilot is "AI built to help you get things done," offering AI chat that supports creating, brainstorming, learning, and problem-solving throughout the day. The brand spans consumer and commercial contexts, appearing as a standalone chat experience at copilot.microsoft.com and as an integrated assistant inside Microsoft applications and Windows. The Copilot name emerged from Microsoft's earlier AI chat efforts, including Bing Chat, which was rebranded and expanded into the Copilot family. Microsoft has since extended the brand to Copilot+ PCs, a category of Windows devices with dedicated AI capabilities, and to enterprise offerings such as Microsoft 365 Copilot. This breadth makes Copilot less a single product than an umbrella brand for Microsoft's generative AI assistant experiences. As a product brand under Microsoft, Copilot is not separately listed; it sits within Microsoft Corporation, a public company traded on NASDAQ under the ticker MSFT. Its operating markets are global, and its core promise is AI assistance embedded in everyday work and personal computing. The brand competes in the fast-moving generative AI assistant space alongside other major technology providers. Because the Copilot brand is evolving rapidly, specific feature sets, pricing tiers, and product names can change. The stable identity is the Microsoft-owned AI assistant brand centered on the copilot.microsoft.com experience and integrated Microsoft AI features.

Microsoft Copilot is the current umbrella brand for Microsoft's generative AI assistant efforts. Its lineage traces to Microsoft's investment in and partnership with OpenAI, which underpinned the conversational experiences Microsoft began rolling out in its Bing search engine and Edge browser. That early assistant was widely known as Bing Chat. Microsoft subsequently consolidated its AI assistant branding under the Copilot name, applying it to the consumer chat experience and to integrations across Microsoft products. The official Copilot site presents the brand as "AI built to help you get things done," emphasizing AI chat that supports creating, brainstorming, learning, and solving problems across the day. The brand expanded further with Copilot+ PCs, a class of Windows computers designed around on-device AI capabilities, and with Microsoft 365 Copilot for productivity applications used by organizations. This turned Copilot from a single chat product into a family of AI features spanning consumer and commercial markets. As part of Microsoft Corporation, Copilot benefits from the parent company's global distribution, cloud infrastructure, and software ecosystem. Microsoft is a public company listed on NASDAQ under the ticker MSFT, and Copilot operates as a product brand within that corporate structure rather than as a separately traded entity. Given the pace of change in generative AI, the Copilot brand continues to evolve, with new capabilities and product integrations introduced over time. The consistent thread is Microsoft's strategy of embedding AI assistance into the tools people already use.

• 2024

  Copilot+ PCs category announced for Windows devices with on-device AI.

• 2023

  Microsoft rebrands and expands its AI chat assistant under the Copilot name.

• 2023

  Microsoft 365 Copilot is introduced for productivity applications.

An AI assistant built to help users get things done across work and daily life.

• Microsoft Copilot

  AI chat assistant available at copilot.microsoft.com.

• Microsoft 365 Copilot

  AI assistance integrated into Microsoft productivity apps.

• Copilot+ PCs

  Windows PCs designed with dedicated AI capabilities.

• Unconfirmed

  Reported2026.10.29

  GitHub offers Copilot subscribers a limited-time Fusion discount[2]GitHub为Copilot订阅用户提供限时Fusion折扣freepressjournal.in

  Paid Copilot subscribers receive a 30% discount on model costs when using Fusion for a limited period.

• 2026.08.17

  Reported2026.08.20

  GitHub suffers nearly 8-hour outage affecting core services[3]GitHub 遭遇近8小时中断，影响核心服务digital.it168.com

  GitHub experienced a large-scale outage from 13:28 to 21:15 UTC on August 17, 2026, lasting 7 hours 47 minutes and affecting Issues, Pull Requests, API, Actions and Copilot. GitHub attributed the incident to Istio sidecar concurrency saturation, autoscaling that monitored only main services and ignored sidecars, central load balancer saturation with four HAProxy nodes exhausting flow limits, and a Visual Studio Code client retry defect that inflated Copilot token traffic to about 10 times normal. Most services recovered around 16:36 UTC, GitHub Actions at 18:03 UTC, and Copilot Token Service last.

• Unconfirmed

  AWS's ECS command-line tool formally renamed Copilot[4]AWS的ECS命令列工具正式更名为Copilotithome.com.tw

  AWS formally renamed its ECS command-line tool Copilot. The source does not provide a calendar date for the renaming.

• 2020.05.06

  Reported2020.05.06

  PointClickCare acquires Co-Pilot[5]PointClickCare acquires Co-Pilotpehub.com

  PointClickCare Technologies acquired Co-Pilot, an analytics solution developed by Consonus Healthcare.

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1. 1Microsoft Copilotcopilot.microsoft.com
2. 2GitHub为Copilot订阅用户提供限时Fusion折扣freepressjournal.in
3. 3GitHub 遭遇近8小时中断，影响核心服务digital.it168.com
4. 4AWS的ECS命令列工具正式更名为Copilotithome.com.tw
5. 5PointClickCare acquires Co-Pilotpehub.com