The boring answer is probably something along the lines of “copilot was trained by employees of OpenAI who aren’t technically MS employees”. When I worked at MS you had to jump through all sorts of hoops to get access to code from other orgs. I can’t imagine what BS you’d need to do to give access to a vendor.
At least a year ago in Azure that wasn't true; everyone had access to nearly every internal service's code (+the windows kernel). Though there were some exceptions (the Teams team didn't want to share their source at all for whatever reason).
> you had to jump through all sorts of hoops to get access to code from other orgs
This may be the dumbest move from M$ that I have read on this thread! Sure, companies need to protect their private IP, but this really feels like creating unnecessary friction for no good reason...
