Claude Code Is Suddenly Everywhere Inside Microsoft
Published 2026-01-22Ingested 2026-02-02AI-Assisted DevelopmentHigh
Summary
According to reporting by The Verge, Microsoft has been broadly encouraging thousands of employees across its largest engineering divisions to adopt Anthropic's Claude Code, even as the company continues to sell GitHub Copilot to external customers. Microsoft's CoreAI team — the AI engineering group led by former Meta engineering chief Jay Parikh — has been testing Claude Code, and Microsoft's Experiences + Devices division (responsible for Windows, Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams, Surface, and mo
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