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Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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Post by torginus » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 5:23 PM UTC

smithkl42 wrote: post #207

veryfancy wrote: post #184

GitHub Copilot with Opus 4.5 as the model is great. I have not tried Claude Code, so maybe I don’t know what I’m missing.

I'm one of those really odd beasts that feels some sort of loyalty to Microsoft, so I started out on Copilot and was very reluctant to try Claude Code. But as soon as I did, I figured out what the hype was about. It's just able to work over larger code bases and over longer time horizons than Copilot. The last time I tried Copilot, just to compare, I noticed that it would make some number of tool calls (not even invo…

I don't really like how Claude Code kind of obscures the actual code from you - I guess that's why people keep putting out articles about how certain programmers have absolutely no idea whats going on inside the code.

It's truly more capable but still not capable enough that Im comfortable blindly trusting the output.

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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Post by llmslave » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 5:24 PM UTC

softwaredoug wrote: post #165

It really says something that MS/Github has been trying to shovel Copilot down our throats for years, and Anthropic just builds a tool in a short period of time and it takes off. It's interesting to think back, what did Copilot do wrong? Why didn't it become Claude Code? It seems for one thing its ambition might have been too small. Second, it was tightly coupled to VS Code / Github. Third, a lot of dumb big org Micr…

i think microsoft just doesnt have top talent building these products

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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Post by lionkor » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 5:24 PM UTC

adamrezich wrote: post #200

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…

> Laptops sell with Copilot buttons now. Is it the context menu key? Or did they do another Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Win+L thing?

Oh no it's a new key and it's on your keyboard.

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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Post by falloutx » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 5:24 PM UTC

fragmede wrote: post #48

32 comments and no mention of codex or windsurf or cursor.

Lets give Crush some love.

Claude still cant do half the things Crush can do.

Plus: you can use Kimi 2.5 with Crush soon

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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Post by akiselev » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 5:24 PM UTC

throw20251220 wrote: post #253

Tempest1981 wrote: post #242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can I pair it with my Zune?

yes, directly through the Windows Phone using a Silverlight 1.0-enabled appliance

I think it’s an Adobe Flex app now.

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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Post by mikkupikku » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 5:25 PM UTC

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…

> so why should anyone pay for Copilot?

The execs buying Microsoft products are presumed to be as clueless as the execs naming Microsoft products.

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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Post by adventured » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 5:25 PM UTC

ksec wrote: post #243

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

Exactly. In the 50 years history of Microsoft, Office ( Year ) was perhaps the best they did. Nadella might have fixed a few things, but Microsoft still have massive room for improvement in many areas.

Nadella has the golden ship taking on water right now. He has entirely botched AI top to bottom. He has screwed that up to such a degree that it would be difficult to overstate. If he doesn't correct these mistakes extremely soon, he'll unravel much of the progress he made for Microsoft and they'll miss this generation of advancement (which will be the end of their $3 trillion market cap - as the market has recently perked up to).

There is no tech giant that is more vulnerable than Microsoft is at this moment.

Most document originations will begin out of or adjacent to of LLM sessions in the near future, as everything will blur in terms of collaborating with AI agents. Microsoft has no footing (or worse, their position is terrible courtesy of copilot) and is vulnerable to death by inflection point. Windows 11 is garbage and Google + Linux may finally be coming for their desktop (no different than what AMD has managed in unwinding the former Intel monopoly in PCs).

Someone should be charging at them with a new take on Office, right now. This is where you slice them in half. Take down Office and take down Windows. They're so stupid at present that they've opened the gates to Office being destroyed, which has been their moat for 30 years.

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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Post by falloutx » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 5:26 PM UTC

bondarchuk wrote: post #11

onion2k wrote: post #6

Microsoft have a goal that states they want to get to " 1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code. " You can't do that if you write the code yourself. That means they'll always be chasing the best model. Right now, that's Opus 4.5.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/engineering-at-microsoft/welc... "Microsoft has over 100,000 software engineers working on software projects of all sizes." So that would mean 100 000 000 000 (100 billion) lines of code per month. Frightening.

Surely 1 line of code = $1, so Microsoft can get $100b revenue per month. Genius plan.

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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Post by wendgeabos » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 5:27 PM UTC

So, is claude code really better than codex with latest gpt model, or do people just hate on openai so much that no one (but me apparently) is using them? I am asking this question seriously because if so I will make the switch, but codex seems to be quite good to me so I don't want to waste time switching.

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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Post by DrTung » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 5:29 PM UTC

pixl97 wrote: post #134

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…

>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

I've heard the next version will be called "Visual Active NET Copilot".