Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

Post by bluedino » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 4:54 PM UTC

dec0dedab0de wrote: post #176

kemotep wrote: post #127

Microsoft really needs to get a better handle with the naming conventions. There is Microsoft Copilot, which replaced Bing Chat, Cortana and uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 and 5 models. There is Github Copilot, the coding autocomplete tool. There is Microsoft 365 Copilot, what they now call Office with built in GenAI stuff. There is also a Copilot cli that lets you use whatever agent/model backend you want too? Everything is Co…

You are describing everything Microsoft has done since at least the late 90s.

Post by tomjen3 » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 4:55 PM UTC

wolvoleo wrote: post #98

pjmlp wrote: post #41

That isn't going well for Satya.

Indeed it's not: https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/01/09/is-microsoft-losing... And: https://www.perspectives.plus/p/microsoft-365-copilot-commer... Tldr: Copilot has 1% marketshare among web chatbots and 1.85% of paid M365 users bought a subscription to it. As much as I think AI is overrated already, Copilot is pretty much the worst performing one out there from the big tech companies. Despite all the Copilot butto…

Post by howdareme9 » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 4:58 PM UTC

zzbzq wrote: post #77

oefrha wrote: post #43

I try GitHub Copilot every once in a while, and just last month it still managed to produce diffs with unbalanced curly braces, or tried to insert (what should be) a top-level function into the middle of another function and screw up everything. This wasn’t on a free model like GPT 4.1 or 5-mini, IIRC it was 5.2 Codex. What the actual fuck? Only explanation I can come up with is that their pay-per-request model made…

You're not using the good models and then blaming the tool? Just use claude models. Copilot's main problem seems to be people don't know how to use it. They need to delete all their plugins except the vscode, CLI ones, and disable all models except anthropic ones. The Claude Code reputation diff is greatly exaggerated beyond that.

Post by simplyinfinity » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 4:59 PM UTC

Paradigma11 wrote: post #224

pixl97 wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Microsoft really needs to get a better handle with the naming conventions Microsoft cannot and will not ever get better at naming things. It is said the universe will split open and and eldritch beast will consume the stars the day Microsoft stops using inconsistent and overlapping names for different and conflicting products. Isn't that right .Net/dotnet

My peak experience so far was trying to search if there was an extension of dotnet interactive for visual studio or only for visual studio code.

Post by newsoftheday » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC

johnebgd wrote: post #15

bakugo wrote: post #13

Explains why Windows updates have been more broken than usual lately. But I guess having my computer randomly stop working because a billion dollar corporation needs to save money by using a shitty text generation algorithm to write code instead of hiring competent programmers is just the new normal now.

I switched to Ubuntu last week for my desktop. First time in my 25+ year career I’ve felt like Microsoft was wasting my time more than administering a Linux desktop would take. The slop effect is real.