Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
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Microsoft is canceling most of its Claude Code licenses (a tool made by Anthropic that helps developers write code with AI assistance) and shifting employees to use Copilot CLI (Microsoft's own AI coding command-line tool) instead. The company had been testing Claude Code with thousands of its developers since December, but is now scaling back the program despite the tool's popularity.
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Original source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/930447/microsoft-claude-code-discontinued-notepad
First tracked: May 14, 2026 at 08:00 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 92%