What is Difference Between Github Copilot and Microsoft Copilot?

Microsoft Copilot and GitHub Copilot are different, though they share similarities in their purpose and technology base.

While both GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Copilot are AI-powered tools designed to assist users, GitHub Copilot is tailored specifically for coding and development, whereas Microsoft Copilot encompasses a broader range of productivity enhancements across various Microsoft applications.

GitHub Copilot

• Developed collaboratively by GitHub, OpenAI, and Microsoft.
• Specifically designed to assist developers by providing autocomplete-style code suggestions directly within their text editors or IDEs.
• It integrates with various development environments such as Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Vim, Neovim, the JetBrains suite of IDEs, and Azure Data Studio.
• It focuses primarily on enhancing the coding experience by suggesting code snippets, functions, and even entire classes based on the context of the code being written.

Microsoft Copilot

• Generally, refers to a suite of AI tools integrated into Microsoft products, aimed at enhancing productivity across various applications.
• Microsoft Copilot is available as a part of Windows operating system and can be accessed from the Windows Task Bar.
• Microsoft Copilot is also available in various Microsoft products like Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), Edge browser, Teams, Power Platform, and Azure.
• In these applications, Copilot assists by generating text, creating summaries, suggesting formulas, designing slides, and more.
• It leverages AI to help users perform tasks more efficiently across different Microsoft software products.

What is Github Copilot?

GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant that helps you write code faster without typing too much and hence improves productivity. Having a faster coding assistant, you can focus more on your business logic and problem solving.

Github Copilot was developed by Github and OpenAI to help software teams’ productivity. GitHub Copilot leverages a generative AI model developed collaboratively by GitHub, OpenAI, and Microsoft.

Copilot offers coding suggestions as you type: sometimes the completion of the current line, sometimes a whole new block of code. You can accept all, or part, of a suggestion, or you can ignore the suggestion and keep typing.

Using the chat feature, you can ask Copilot how best to solve a problem. Or you can ask Copilot to explain someone else's code. If your code has a bug, you can ask Copilot how to fix it.
GitHub Copilot has been proven to increase developer productivity and accelerate the pace of software development. In a survey, 88% were more productive when they used Github Copilot.

Job satisfaction is a key to developers’ well-being and happiness. While using Copilot, developers were more focused on problem solving than typing code and fixing bugs.

Github Copilot was also able to increase the performance of development and, hence, delivery by 55%.

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