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Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot is Microsoft's AI assistant product line, launched as Bing Chat and renamed Copilot in November 2023, spanning Bing, Edge, Windows, and Microsoft 365 apps.
Microsoft Copilot in Power BI and Fabric
Copilot in Power BI and Fabric: Microsoft's generative AI assistant (announced May 2023) for reports, DAX/SQL generation, and chat with data, running on Azure OpenAI, requiring paid Fabric F2+ or Premium P1 capacity, with Fabric data agents for governed NL2SQL Q&A.
Microsoft Copilot Studio
Microsoft Copilot Studio is a graphical, low-code environment from Microsoft for building AI-powered agents and workflows, announced in November 2023 as the successor to Power Virtual Agents.
Microsoft Data Center (Mount Pleasant)
The Microsoft Data Center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, is an AI data center campus branded Fairwater, built on the former Foxconn site with a $7 billion investment.
Microsoft Defender
Microsoft Defender is the brand for Microsoft's security products, spanning built-in Windows antivirus, enterprise endpoint protection, and identity threat detection under the Defender XDR suite.
Microsoft Des Moines Data Center
The Microsoft Des Moines data center is a cluster of cloud-computing campuses in West Des Moines, Iowa, begun in 2008 and now hosting AI workloads including the training of OpenAI's GPT-4.
Microsoft Dynamics 365
Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a family of cloud-based business applications from Microsoft combining CRM and ERP functionality, launched in 2016, with apps for sales, customer service, finance, and supply chain.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a cloud ERP system from Microsoft for small and mid-sized businesses, launched in 2018 as the successor to Dynamics NAV.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, abbreviated D365 F&O, is Microsoft's enterprise-scale cloud ERP service built on Azure, covering finance, supply chain, and manufacturing for medium and large organizations.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales is a customer relationship management application from Microsoft that helps sales organizations track leads and opportunities, forecast revenue, and automate selling.
Microsoft Dynamics AX
Microsoft Dynamics AX, originally developed as Axapta, was an ERP software product for mid-size and large organizations, covering finance, supply chain, manufacturing, retail, and public-sector processes.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Microsoft Dynamics NAV, developed from the Danish Navision package Microsoft acquired in 2002 for about $1.45 billion, was an ERP product for small and mid-sized businesses.
Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Edge is a cross-platform web browser developed by Microsoft, first released in 2015 as the Windows 10 default and rebuilt in 2020 on Chromium, the technology behind Google Chrome.
Microsoft Entertainment Pack
Microsoft Entertainment Pack, also known as Windows Entertainment Pack, is a series of casual game compilations Microsoft released for 16-bit Windows between 1990 and 1992, bundling games like Minesweeper, Tetris, and FreeCell.
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel, also known as MS Excel, is a Microsoft spreadsheet program that arranges data in a grid of cells holding numbers, text, and formulas, first released in 1985.
Microsoft Exchange Server
Microsoft Exchange Server is a Microsoft mail server and collaboration platform providing email, scheduling, and messaging applications, deployed on Windows Server in on-premises and hybrid organizations.
Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft Fabric is a software-as-a-service analytics platform from Microsoft that combines data integration, engineering, science, warehousing, real-time analytics, and business intelligence, with all workloads sharing one data lake called OneLake.
Microsoft Flight Simulator
Microsoft Flight Simulator: long-running flight simulation series (debut 1982), now built by Asobo Studio, simulating Earth as a streamed digital twin from Bing Maps and Azure data; MSFS 2024 is the 12th release.
Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020 video game)
Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) is an Asobo Studio/Xbox Game Studios flight sim released 18 August 2020 on PC, streaming a 2.5-petabyte Bing Maps digital twin of Earth via Azure, with live weather and air traffic; over 2 million users in six months.
Microsoft Flight Simulator X
Microsoft Flight Simulator X (FSX) is ACES Studio's 2006 Windows flight simulator, tenth in the series, with 24,000+ airports, SimConnect SDK, missions, and multiplayer; later revived as Prepar3D and FSX: Steam Edition.
Microsoft FrontPage
Microsoft FrontPage, later Microsoft Office FrontPage, is a discontinued WYSIWYG web authoring program originally developed by Vermeer Technologies, acquired by Microsoft in 1996, and retired after FrontPage 2003.
Microsoft HoloLens
Microsoft HoloLens: self-contained optical see-through mixed-reality headset (2016, $3,000; HoloLens 2, 2019, $3,500) with waveguide displays and spatial mapping; enterprise and IVAS military use; production ended 2024.
Microsoft Ignite
Microsoft Ignite is Microsoft's annual conference for enterprise customers, its largest event of the year, focused on AI, cloud, security, and data announcements; the 2026 edition runs November 17–20 in San Francisco.
Microsoft InfoPath
Microsoft InfoPath, formerly XDocs, is a discontinued Microsoft Office application for designing and filling out XML-based electronic forms, released in 2003 and retired in 2026 in favor of Power Apps.
Microsoft Lumia 950 XL
The Microsoft Lumia 950 XL is a flagship Windows 10 Mobile phablet announced by Microsoft on October 6, 2015 and released in November 2015, known for its Continuum feature.
Microsoft Maia
Microsoft Maia is Microsoft's family of custom AI accelerator chips for Azure data centers, spanning Maia 100 (2023) and Maia 200 (2026), used only for Microsoft's own services.
Microsoft Mobile
Microsoft Mobile Oy, a Finnish subsidiary of Microsoft formed from Nokia's device business in 2014, developed Lumia, Asha, and Nokia X phones until its businesses were wound down or sold in 2016.
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office, also known as MS Office, is a suite of productivity applications from Microsoft, centered on Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, first bundled in 1989.
Microsoft Office 2007
Microsoft Office 2007, also known as Office 12, is a version of the Microsoft Office suite released in January 2007, replacing menus with the Ribbon interface.
Microsoft Office 2010
Microsoft Office 2010 (Office 14) is a Microsoft productivity suite released on June 15, 2010, succeeding Office 2007 with Backstage View, a customizable ribbon, and the first 64-bit editions.