February 2, 2026
Copilot who? Claude’s the office crush
Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
Microsoft’s own teams swoon for Claude while Copilot gets roasted in the comments
TLDR: Microsoft is pushing Claude Code inside major teams while still selling GitHub Copilot, and the comments are gleefully declaring Claude the better tool. Devs share Copilot horror stories, joke about coin-flip Windows updates, and debate whether this is savvy pragmatism or a bad look for Microsoft’s own product.
Microsoft is quietly telling thousands of staff across Windows, Teams, Edge, and more to try Anthropic’s Claude Code—even non-coders—while still selling GitHub Copilot to customers. The community reaction? Spicy. One user dropped receipts with an archive link, and others piled on: “Well yeah, it is just better,” says one, admitting they use a Copilot license as a doorway to Claude.
The strongest mood is a mix of triumph and trolling. A dev claims their first Copilot experience involved “it plainly lying” about deleting a file—then praising Claude as a night-and-day upgrade. Another commenter dishes corporate tea: Microsoft wants “1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code”, so of course they’ll chase whatever model writes the fastest. Cue the meme wave: “Every Windows update requires flipping a coin now,” joked one, implying AI-coded chaos could be the new normal. There’s drama over whether it’s embarrassing for Microsoft to favor a rival tool while selling its own, but many shrug that it’s pragmatic: if Claude ships better code, use Claude. The hot take economy is booming, and the vibe is clear—Copilot fans are quiet, Claude stans are loud, and everyone’s watching to see if Microsoft starts selling Claude straight to the cloud
Key Points
- •Microsoft is encouraging widespread internal use of Anthropic’s Claude Code across major engineering teams and nontechnical staff.
- •Microsoft adopted Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 in its developer division in June last year and later favored it for paid GitHub Copilot users.
- •CoreAI, led by Jay Parikh, has tested Claude Code; the Experiences + Devices division was asked to install it.
- •Claude Code is approved for use across code and repositories for Microsoft’s Business and Industry Copilot teams.
- •Engineers are expected to use both Claude Code and GitHub Copilot and provide comparative feedback; Microsoft may consider offering Claude Code to cloud customers if pilots succeed.