Dev Home, more like, Dev Gone, entering the Microsoft graveyard by May 2025

Microsoft is pulling out the plug of Dev Home, its centralized control center on Windows for developers that arrived back in 2023 in the most typical Microsoft way.

Now, if you open Dev Home, you will be greeted with a surprising deprecation message. But honestly, if you know Microsoft enough, you won’t be surprised about this anyway.

“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 warning message reads.

Dev Home lets you monitor projects and track workflows via a customizable dashboard, set up their environment by downloading apps, packages, or repositories, and manage developer accounts and tools like GitHub.

It also comes with features like machine configuration tools for onboarding new projects, customizable widgets for monitoring system performance (such as CPU, GPU, and memory usage), and integrations with Azure DevOps and GitHub for managing repositories and tracking pull requests.

Dev Home had such a promising start, so to speak, but in the most Microsoft way, it seems like Redmond is ready to burn this feature to the ground albeit it has a big user base and 3.7k stars on GitHub.

But the app’s lack of significant updates and features since its release may be triggering the final nail in the coffin. Some folks criticize Microsoft for abandoning the project, saying that Redmond often moves away from initiatives if they don’t meet immediate success.