Anthropic's Claude Code for VS Code has surpassed OpenAI's Codex extension in Visual Studio Code Marketplace installs and review volume despite launching later. OpenAI positions Codex as an IDE ...

Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.123 on June 3, adding agent-focused features, larger model context support, integrated browser updates and a new delay for some automatic extension updates.

Developers can now continue VS Code chats started on other devices, and OpenAI and Anthropic models get an enlarged context window.

The agent is doing the actual work, and VS Code is just a window.

Visual Studio Code has switched to weekly updates, so new features and bug fixes are now arriving at a rapid pace. The new version 1.112 update is now available, with a significant upgrade for web ...

The report notes that Claude Code quickly became popular within Microsoft over the past six months. However, that popularity may now be creating challenges for Microsoft’s own AI ambitions around ...

I understand that Microsoft is planning to remove most of its Claude Code licenses and push many of its developers to use Copilot CLI instead. While Claude Code has been a popular addition, it has ...

Microsoft has instructed its employees to stop using Claude Code and instead transition to GitHub Copilot. The company had ...