{"id":1012223,"date":"2026-06-04T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012223"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:44:00","slug":"microsoft-tells-engineers-to-stop-using-anthropics-claude-as-canceling-claude-code-licenses-becomes-an-easy-way-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/04\/microsoft-tells-engineers-to-stop-using-anthropics-claude-as-canceling-claude-code-licenses-becomes-an-easy-way-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft tells engineers to stop using Anthropic&#8217;s Claude, as canceling Claude Code licenses becomes an easy way to\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is canceling most internal Claude Code licenses by June 30, pushing engineers to its own GitHub Copilot CLI. The catch? Anthropic&#8217;s tool got too popular, undercutting Microsoft&#8217;s homegrown product. The official reason is toolchain unification, but The Verge reports the fiscal-year-end timing points to cost-cutting. It fits a wider AI spending crunch hitting Uber and others. Claude models stay available through Copilot CLI, so this isn&#8217;t a full break with Anthropic.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft handed thousands of its own engineers a free pass to Anthropic&#8217;s Claude Code back in December, no strings attached. It wasn&#8217;t just developers either. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is canceling most internal Claude Code licenses by June 30, pushing engineers to its own GitHub Copilot CLI. The catch? Anthropic&#8217;s tool got too popular, undercutting Microsoft&#8217;s homegrown product. The official reason is toolchain unification, but The Verge reports the fiscal-year-end timing points to cost-cutting. It fits a wider AI spending crunch hitting Uber and others. Claude models stay available through Copilot CLI, so this isn&#8217;t a full break with Anthropic. Microsoft handed thousands of its own engineers a free pass to Anthropic&#8217;s Claude Code back in December, no strings attached. It wasn&#8217;t just developers either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012224,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012223\/revisions\/1012224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}