According to The Verge, Claude Code became "perhaps a little too popular" inside Microsoft, with many engineers regularly favouring Anthropic's offering over Microsoft's own Copilot CLI.

Microsoft ends Claude Code licenses and shifts developers to its in‑house Copilot model, signaling a strategic move toward AI ...

Usage of the company's Copilot AI coding tool surged after GitHub changed how it bills customers, the executive said.

Microsoft drops Claude Code for thousands of engineers in 2026, forcing a switch to GitHub Copilot CLI by June 30. Here's what's happening and why.

Microsoft scales back Claude Code for engineers, shifts focus to GitHub Copilot CLI, balancing standardisation, costs, and ...

Microsoft is discontinuing most internal Claude Code licenses by June 30, directing engineers to its own GitHub Copilot CLI. This move follows Claude Code's unexpected popularity, which reportedly ...

Microsoft has instructed its employees to stop using Claude Code and instead transition to GitHub Copilot. The company had ...

Microsoft has reportedly restricted employee access to Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 due to concerns around new data retention policies, while customers continue to access the model through Microsoft ...

Microsoft has blocked its own employees from using Anthropic's newly launched Claude Fable 5 inside GitHub Copilot, citing unresolved concerns over a 30-day data retention policy tied to the ...

Microsoft reportedly plans to move many developers from Claude Code to Copilot CLI, betting on its in-house AI coding tool despite Claude's popularity. Microsoft Pushes Developers Away From Claude ...

Six teams exploited Claude Code, Copilot, Codex, and Vertex AI in nine months. Every attack hit runtime credentials that IAM tools never tracked.

Instead of flat-rate premium requests, GitHub now charges for actual token consumption. Free models will be discontinued.