New Delhi, June 2 -- Microsoft is telling its employees to stop using Claude Code and instead start moving towards its own GitHub Copilot, according to a report by The Verge. Reportedly, Microsoft had first begun rolling out Claude Code to thousands of employees in December last year and invited not just coders but also thousands of other employees including designers, project managers and other non-technical staff to experiment with coding.

The report notes that Anthropic's AI coding assistant so popular inside Microsoft that many of the company's developers even began using it over Microsoft's own coding assistant.

In an internal memo seen by The Verge, Rajesh Jha, Executive Vice President of Microsoft's Experiences and Devices group,...