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Microsoft is telling its employees to stop using Claude Code and instead start moving towards its own GitHub Copilot, according to a report by The Verge. Reportedly, Microsoft had first begun rolling out Claude Code to thousands of employees in December last year and invited not just coders but also thousands of other employees including designers, project managers and other non-technical staff to experiment with coding.
The report notes that Anthropic's AI coding assistant so popular inside Microsoft that many of the company's developers even began using it over Microsoft's own coding assistant.
Microsoft tells employees to stop using Claude Code:
In an internal memo seen by The Verge, Rajesh Jha, Executive Vice President of Microsoft's Experiences and Devices group, said that the tech giant first started offering both Claude Code and Copilot to benchmark the tools in ‘real engineering workflows, and understand what best supported our teams’
“Claude Code was an important part of that learning… at the same time, Copilot CLI has given us something especially important: a product we can help shape directly with GitHub for Microsoft’s repos, workflows, security expectations, and engineering needs.” Jha added
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