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Company profile · documentation reviewed 2026-10-02

Microsoft

Microsoft's AI products cover personal assistance, work documents, software development and building agents. Microsoft Copilot is the consumer offering; Microsoft 365 Copilot works with organizational data and productivity applications. GitHub Copilot serves coding workflows, Copilot Studio provides tools for creating agents, and Microsoft Foundry supplies AI application and model infrastructure with models from multiple providers. The shared Copilot name does not mean one account or product includes all of them. Microsoft AI is the consumer-AI organization formed in 2024, while Microsoft itself dates to 1975.

Products, models and their relationships

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

organization

Microsoft AI

The Microsoft organization formed in 2024 to advance consumer AI. It is an organizational unit, separate from the company's founding and the names of individual Copilot products.

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application family

Microsoft Copilot

Consumer assistant experiences under the Copilot name. This is an application family, rather than the name of one foundation model.

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work application

Microsoft 365 Copilot

The Microsoft offering for assistance with work data and productivity applications. It is a separate product from consumer Copilot.

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coding assistant

GitHub Copilot

GitHub's coding assistant within the Microsoft ecosystem. The product supports coding workflows; its name does not identify one particular GPT model.

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agent development platform

Copilot Studio

The platform for creating agents. It serves people building an agent, rather than simply using an existing Copilot assistant.

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enterprise platform

Microsoft Foundry

Infrastructure for AI applications and models, including models from multiple providers. It is a platform choice for an application, distinct from an end-user Copilot product.

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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.

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  4. Paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats reported

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

    Primary 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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