Deprecated Microsoft is killing its Dev Home app

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In May 2023, Microsoft launched a new Windows 11 app for developers called Dev Home that helped streamline the setup process of a development environment, making it easy to install multiple different coding tools and even link sync with Github repositories to make managing and coding for projects easier.

Unfortunately, it appears Microsoft is now planning to deprecate the app, less than two years after it first launched. An app update appears to be introducing a deprecation banner along the top of the interface that reads:

"Dev Home will be going away in May 2025 and a subset of its features will be moved to new places. Stay tuned for more information in the following months."

The message doesn't say which parts of the app will survive the culling, or where they'll end up. It just mentions that the Dev Home app as a whole will be going away in May 2025, meaning developers who use this app will need to look for alternatives soon.

Microsoft is killing its Dev Home app for Windows 11 and Windows 10 just two years after it debuted

The Dev Home app was only introduced two years ago, but it's already heading for the chopping block.

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