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Microsoft is killing off its unloved Dev Home control center after the app spent less than two years in preview. The control center for developers was open source, which meant that eagle-eyed users could spot Microsoft's decision to cut the project ahead of a formal announcement from the Windows giant. Posting on X, Rafael …

  1. may_i Silver badge

    Standard operating procedure

    This is so typical of Microsoft.

    Create new thing.

    Get developers using it.

    Pull the rug out from under them.

    Repeat.

    If we re-wrote our applications every time Microsoft deprecated a framework, API or tool that they rely on, we'd never have the time to write anything new.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Standard operating procedure

      Perhaps they are trying to catch up with Google in the 'cancelled projects' stakes?

      I do remember that the 'Dev Home' icon kept annoyingly appearing on machines without being invited. Given that most Windows users aren't developers, this was spectacularly pointless.

      1. Pascal Monett Silver badge

        Indeed.

        Google has form in that area as well.

    2. Anonymous Coward Silver badge
      Thumb Up

      Re: Standard operating procedure

      Apart from in this instance developers haven't been using it.

      It's part of my SOP to remove it from every new device I set up, so I guess them discontinuing it will save my script one step in the declutter process.

    3. Zippy´s Sausage Factory

      Re: Standard operating procedure

      Developers were using it? I never saw that they made a concrete case for using it to me, so I just ignored it.

    4. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge
      Holmes

      Re: Standard operating procedure

      SOP for Google as well.

  2. Irongut Silver badge

    Lack of awareness

    I'm a developer in the .NET ecosystem and I've never heard of Dev Home until today.

    Admitedly it doesn't sound very useful but maybe if they had advertised it some might have used it.

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