Microsoft is creating and deploying virtual assistants similar to ChatGPT in its applications. Although the goal is always to improve productivity, well-being and our quality of work, it is good not to confuse the advantages and functionality offered by each 'copilot'. In this article, we then dive into the differences between Microsoft Copilot and GitHub Copilot.
Microsoft Copilot is the revolutionary solution that comes from the combination of OpenAI's Large Language Models (LLM) with Microsoft Graph data with the aim of increasing daily productivity.
This technology, accessible in the main Microsoft applications, has been designed to guide users in the use of Microsoft 365, Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Power Platform and Microsoft Azure.
Within Microsoft 365, Copilot allows you to draft your documents in a few seconds in Word, to analyze the data in Excel, to create presentations already illustrated in PowerPoint, to manage communication through Outlook and to collaborate better with colleagues on Teams.
The integration with Azure Instead, it allows you to consolidate the information coming from the services used in the company, optimizing the design, management and scalability of the IT infrastructure. For example, Copilot can suggest how to optimize the deployment of virtual machines in the corporate Azure environment or how to improve the protection of storage accounts.
In the Power Platform, Copilot offers its help to automate tasks through Power Automate, the development of applications with Power Apps and the drafting of dynamic reports in Power BI, starting from a simple prompt and integrating the necessary data directly from the Microsoft corporate environment.
Microsoft Copilot is therefore a tool capable of revolutionizing our productivity thanks to the integration with our work tools and the proactive collaboration it can offer.
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GitHub Copilot is the virtual assistant that Microsoft has developed in collaboration with OpenAI and GitHub to simplify programming and development activities. It therefore constitutes the first intelligent support for writing code, capable of generating lines or entire functions starting from the context of the comments and the source code.
These functionalities are possible thanks to OpenAI Codex, the artificial intelligence system that OpenAI has trained on a vast body of public source code to refine the ability to write code already present in GPT-3. In addition, knowledge of OpenAI Codex allows GitHub Copilot to operate on all major programming languages and thus adapt to any project.
Finally, it is useful to emphasize that GitHub Copilot is not only present in the GitHub development environment, but is also available as an extension to support Pair programming within:
It's obvious that Microsoft Copilot and GitHub Copilot have more than one feature that sets them apart. From the scope of use to the functionalities offered, you will find all the main ones below.
GitHub Copilot is based on a different artificial intelligence system, always created and trained by OpenAI. This is Codex, which makes it possible to provide more flexible support when writing code.
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