Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

Posted by jervant 8 hours ago

Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source(opensource.microsoft.com)

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MBCook 7 hours ago|

I think it was my introduction to IRC. If not it would have been shortly after.

brcmthrowaway 7 hours ago||

The creator is still at Microsoft. Lifer.

ahartmetz 7 hours ago|

As "Principal Program Manager, Copilot Acceleration Team" even. That's sad.

It sounds like person in charge of "Hey do you want Copilot? How about now? How about now? And now?! Here's another popup! Do you want it now? Why not?! Have you tried Copilot?" Etc...

(I know about title inflation, he's probably not in charge of all that much, but still)

bdsa 7 hours ago|||

That's the article author Robert Standefer, I don't think he created Comic Chat, that was David Kurlander...

monknomo 7 hours ago|||

here's the creator on his creation: https://kurlander.net/DJ/Projects/ComicChat/resources

EvanAnderson 7 hours ago||

Thank you. This should be a top-level comment.

outintospace 5 hours ago|||

That is correct. DJ Kurlander is the creator of Comic Chat and he is credited in the blog post. I'm just the guy that made the open source release happen, with DJ's support. He retired from Microsoft 20+ years ago.

dmd 7 hours ago||||

Copilot means so many things now it doesn't even tell you anything about they do.

inigyou 7 hours ago||

It was explained to me that the word "Copilot" is just Microsoft's brand for what the rest of us call "AI" - just like "365" means "online", "Azure" means "cloud", "Entra" means "login" and ".NET" used to mean "with a computer".

So when you see something like "Azure Copilot 365" you can pretend they wrote, fully generically, "Online Cloud AI".

If you see a button labelled "Copilot" you understand it would've said "AI" if they were any other company.

mossTechnician 6 hours ago||

Microsoft also apparently "rebranded Office to Microsoft 365 in 2022"[0], causing a lot of confusion about what "Microsoft 365 Copilot" on their homepage meant, but I think it would translate to "Cloud Office Suite + Cloud AI"

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/tech/856149/microsoft-365-office-re...

inigyou 6 hours ago||

Microsoft 365 means Microsoft Online, according to the translator. And it makes sense: they are positioning Office as their core product, not just one of many products. They are renaming Microsoft Office to just Microsoft; this is the online version (which happens to be the only version); and it has AI, which they are prominently showcasing. Hence, Microsoft 365 Copilot. It means "Microsoft Online, now with AI"

Of course, all of this is completely retarded.

98codes 6 hours ago|||

It's a team (part of engineering, not sales) that helps companies that bought M365 Copilot and/or Copilot Studio use it well - http://aka.ms/whoiscat

outintospace 2 hours ago||

Thanks for sharing the link. I built that site. :)

jdw64 8 hours ago||

I still think this project has potential.

anthk 2 hours ago||

Merge this with the public servers of https://bitlbee.org to use Jabber or Mastodon servers (among others) with it.

mettamage 7 hours ago||

This is so peak, haha, love it. Thanks HN, made my day :)

guessbest 6 hours ago||

Thirty years old. Hard to believe

crooked-v 4 hours ago||

So the real question is, when will somebody turn this into a Discord client?

zetanor 6 hours ago||

Extend, embrace

lysace 2 hours ago|

Embrace, extend, and extinguish

dartharva 5 hours ago|

Open source Windows NT instead

outintospace 35 minutes ago|

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