May 25, 2026

Microsoft’s quiet Claude Code retreat and the real cost of enterprise AI

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In December of last year, Microsoft told thousands of its engineers, product managers and designers that they could use Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line coding agent, on the company dime. By spring, the tool had spread well beyond engineering: i...