After telling employees to stop using Claude Code, Microsoft's internal memo has more 'bad news' for Anthropic

Microsoft has told engineers that "tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for" in a new internal memo from EVP Jay Parikh ...

Microsoft releases MAI-Code-1.1-Flash coding model to better compete with Chinese models0 0

Flash, this new MAI-Code-1.1-Flash model delivers enhanced performance across development tasks, including a 22% boost on Terminal-Bench 2.1.
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Microsoft slashes AI coding costs with MAI-Code-1.1-Flash

MAI-Code-1.1-Flash promises faster coding, native vision, fewer tokens, and dramatically lower prices across GitHub Copilot.
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Special Embrace? VS Code Adapts to Claude Code's Ecosystem

Microsoft is increasingly treating Claude as a first-class option across dev tooling and AI products. For one prominent example of that trend, Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor is extending Claude ...

Developer ports Word for Windows 1.1a to modern x64 systems using original source code

Developer Justin Marshall recently ported Word for Windows 1.1a to modern Windows systems. The open-source conversion draws ...