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Zac Bowden

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

Windows Dev features.

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:

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