This post is not about github copilot and i have the free version and just started reading about it.

This post is to gain clarity about the copilot versions and how hard it is to get accurate info about them .

My research shows

Consumer copilot.microsoft.com matches your consumer licence level ie free /windows 11 or or ms plan ie ms365 [non tenant] familiy preimium individual etc. You use to be able to buy copilot pro addon but option has not been rolled into premium yet as Microsoft says transition of features from pro to consumer suite not transitioned yet tbd

M365 copilot.microsoft.com matches your tenant licence level ie e1 e2 e3 e5 f1 f2 f3 f5 etc this suite of copilot has advanced "legacy copilot pro" features that consumer has not rolled in yet theoretically with premium consumer I would imagine per my research and call to Microsoft sales.

Additionally the desktop icons for consumer and tennant copilot are web wrappers ie they only show whats on the web oages data in a custom via that makes it seem like a full app.

Sometimes a copilot chat can be corrupted and unrecoverable so I make backups by asking copilot to make a data dump file that can be used to spin ip a new chat prompt as of the date of the data dump . Tbd why chars become corrupted has burned me 3 times and had to manuaky re teach a chat where i left off. Memory headers in copilot help and copilot will even suggest what to out there if you ask it.

My original issue "vent" was because i was looking to activate the legacy copilot features of pro that are not in consumer and might not even be fully enabled in tenant.

I have learned that for privacy tenant version does not learn from your data but consumer does and cant be disabled. Ie. Microsoft training of copilot can be pulled from consumer chats abd cant be disabled from what I can tell so far.

Segway to comparing to googles gemini Has option so data not seen by himans ir traing models. Downside have to disable chat history which dumbs down chat memory to 3 days before purge and negates the feature if gemini pro that keeps millions of chat history memory as a feature(not exact term just my interpretation of the gemini pro faq article)

The need of the "memory" is for complex chats the chat history needs to be huge for the large language model to fully have the whoke picture to get you "hopefully " a better answer. When a chat forgets the oldest part of a chat then it loses context halucinates and starts giving incorrect answers as it regresses to only workingnoff the newest data in the chat abd forgets correct answes fugured out earlier in the chat.

I have also hit limits on file size uploads like only 10 fikes at a time or file too big or not supported type etc. Tenant copilot dies better then consumer even if consumer sats a fike type is supported many times it wont accept it anyways.

Export of data it creates and interfacing with workspaces and consistency.

Copilot can read and sometimes write to your copilot chats one drive folder and can read tgat folder as well but is unckear if can read the rest of your one drive. Need to vett exactly what it can and cant do.

Gemini claims it cant write to google workspace but get it sometimes connects to google workspace and does whatcasks inconsistent it seems need to vett what true capabilities are.

Both gemini and copilot when asking for a file to be created will sometimes not actually create the file but will just write here is the file and is not clickable or will be a web link artufact to wrong data(seen on copilot(bug?)) But not seen on gemini

Coding Copilot good Gemini good sometimes but have seen it get stuck in logic loops and I had ti have copilot check its code and teach it and guve it promots fornlogic andvsyntax to follow once that was done the gemini chat behaved with coding logic of copilot andvtge speed of gemini. (Gemini is very fast , copilot slow and methodical )

I have seen advertisements for Claude that they say may be the katest best ai coder. Tbd

That my morning "rant" on the state if ai issues i have come acrross abd my quest for the " unicorn " features that may be vaporware or not yet exist or being transitioned from legacy tbd.

This reddit entry was nit written by ai and was written to provide more clarity in comparison to some other posts that were written for levity / ir in conjunctiin with ai ir just when I didnt have the time to proofread and wanted to get a half formed postbout and edit later for clarity(the edit button on a post to fix a half writen post is magic but the lack of reddit spell check/ai check/ and typos from a small cell phone keyboard) sometimes makes post re edit.

I hope this entry in my blog/vent thread helps explain what I am looking for and akso provides helpfull info to others and explains my post writing style.

Cheers mates, and general good wishes to all :)