Microsoft cancels thousands of Claude Code licenses in Experiences+Devices division, shifting engineers to GitHub Copilot CLI by June 30 deadline

Microsoft is ending Claude Code licenses within its Experiences and Devices division and moving those engineers onto its own GitHub Copilot CLI In December, Microsoft let thousands of its own engineers use Anthropic's Claude Code on the company's budget, and inside the Experiences and Devices group it became the preferred tool, Forbes reported. But Claude Code is priced Microsoft is winding down the licenses The move coincides with Microsoft's Build developer conference in San Francisco this week, where the company is showing off a new coding model built for GitHub Copilot. Under executive Mustafa Suleyman, the company has spent the past year pushing toward self-sufficiency in AI, building a family of in-house MAI models to depend less on external partners for the intelligence inside its products, according to Forbes.