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Microsoft

Microsoft's AI offerings span consumer assistance, workplace applications, coding tools and enterprise infrastructure. Microsoft AI is an organization announced in March 2024, not the company's founding identity. Copilot is a family of applications and agents rather than one foundation model: consumer Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot and Copilot Studio serve different workflows. Foundry supplies AI application and model infrastructure. These products can expose models from multiple providers, so a Copilot entitlement should not be read as unrestricted access to a particular GPT model. For Microsoft 365 teams, the relevant questions concern work-data integrations and governance; developers should evaluate the actual GitHub or IDE workflow. Microsoft reported over 30 million paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats on July 29, 2026. Purchased seats are not monthly active people or a measure of the consumer audience. Its live roadmap distinguishes availability and early-access statuses. July's forthcoming unified-experience statement is historical here, with October shipment unverified.

Identity and history

1975 — Microsoft was founded April 4, 1975; Microsoft AI formation in March 2024 is a separate organizational milestone. Founding source

  1. Microsoft founded

    Company founding date, distinct from formation of the later Microsoft AI organization.

    Primary source

  2. Microsoft Copilot branding announced

    The historical announcement scheduled Microsoft 365 Copilot enterprise availability for November 1, 2023; it is not fresh verification of that shipment.

    Primary source

  3. Microsoft AI organization announced

    An organization formed to advance consumer AI, distinct from the Microsoft company and Copilot product family.

    Primary source

  4. Paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats reported

    Earnings remarks reported over 30 million paid seats; seats are purchased licenses, not active people.

    Primary source

Products, models and their relationships

The kind labels distinguish an application or service from a model family. Availability and entitlements differ across these surfaces.

application family

Microsoft Copilot

Consumer assistant experiences; Copilot is not a single foundation model.

Product relationship source

work application

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft work-data and productivity offering, distinct from consumer Copilot.

Product relationship source

coding assistant

GitHub Copilot

GitHub coding product within the wider Microsoft ecosystem; not synonymous with a particular GPT model.

Product relationship source

enterprise platform

Microsoft Foundry

AI application and model infrastructure; models may come from multiple providers.

Product relationship source

Who uses it, and what the numbers mean

  • Microsoft 365 knowledge-work teams evaluating assistance over work data, with tenant permissions, governance and product entitlement checked.
  • Developers using GitHub and IDE workflows, or internal-agent builders evaluating Copilot Studio rather than assuming one Copilot product covers both tasks.

These are dated vendor-reported figures. Populations and units differ; this is not a market-share ranking.

Over 30 million Paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats

· Purchased Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses reported in the earnings transcript.

Not monthly active people, consumer Copilot users or the combined audience across Copilot products.

Original metric and context

Announced direction

Availability statements apply to the dated announcement and its specified audience. An intention is not proof that a feature later shipped.

  • 2026-07-29 · historical

    July earnings remarks described a forthcoming unified Copilot experience; this is a historical statement requiring a new release check, not an October delivery promise.

    Announcement or documentation

Sources, unknowns and review scope

Documentation-based editorial profile, checked . Products were not hands-on tested; company claims and announced plans were not independently audited.

  • No directly comparable combined Copilot MAU across consumer, Microsoft 365 and GitHub was established.
  • October shipment status of the July unified-experience statement was not established.
  • The live roadmap is not a single schedule and does not certify all listed capabilities as available.
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